Ailene Voisin
Ailene Voisin is the worst sports writer I have ever come across. I was talking with Mike Bibby the other day and I told him about something she quoted him on in the paper and he said that everyone on the team as well as the organization tries to avoid her because she always twists everyone's words and quotes them as saying things that they've never even said. Bibby said she is even known to make up interviews based on information that she heard from someone else. Wow. So I have stopped reading her articles. They are garbage.
I couldn't reply to anymore of the posts so I had to extend the original diary. Here is what Bibby and other players have said about Voisin: They said that what happens is that she will overhear conversations between a player and another reporter or Petrie and another reporter or between a player and another player and then she will report them as if she had been interviewing them. And I'm sure that the other reporters are aware of this. The players obviously are. They said they all avoid her as much as possible. So, I'm just reporting what they tell me/my father. I'm not here to say why she does it. I have no idea.
(This is a FanPost from a member of the Sactown Royalty community. The views expressed come from the member, and not Sactown Royalty staff.)
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by Original Ballboy on Nov 20, 2007 8:32 AM PST reply actions
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Again, interesting.
-Not an Aileen fan either, but suspicious of the validity/honesty of this conversation. Not on your part, OB.
But I'll continue to read her articles and weigh them against the equally crap Kings PR articles posted on the Kings blog.
Doesn't anyone else find the newly accessible and smiley Mike Bibby kind of creepy after his years of inaccesible Mike Bibby kind of disturbing?
Not a shot at his ability as a player but, after years of no access, seeing this dude play smiley in interviews and new commercials disturbs me. My guess is the Maloofs' are newly dictatorial re: community involvment.
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I just find it kind of weird that they've all picked this year to start talking.
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Interesting. You think Mike Bibby speaks unguardedly, or truthfully, to random folks/fans?
Well apparently OB does, because he recorded this as first hand interaction. You can call him a liar if you like. But if he had said... "My friend talked to Mike Bibby and said..." Then your response would be a perfect fit. But your asking a person who supposedly talked with Mike Bibby personally whether or not Mike Bibby actually said something he should believe. Why shouldn't he believe what Bibby says to him personally? If you don't want to believe that this conversation ever took place to begin with then say so. Please don't hide behind some contentious comment. You pretend like you don't believe Mike Bibby didn't mean what he said. And there isn't much reason to believe that his comments would be sarcastic in nature. He is the Black Larry David. Generally Larry David gets himself in trouble a lot. But he means what he says. And unless you have proof that Mike Bibby randomly engages random people with anti-voisin conversations, then it's reasonable to believe that A.) OB is not a random person. B.) that Voisin's many critics extend to the King's players.
Furthermore, if your suspicious of the validity/honesty of this conversation, then how are you not questioning OB's part? Like I said earlier, don't be a pussy. Say what you've got to say. You can't question the validity of the conversation being reported from ONLY ONE PERSON, without directly questioning the person reporting it.
If it's a matter of credibility you need, then maybe you need to remember that TZ posted Mike Bibby's summer camp announcement from OB on behalf of Mike Bibby. Or that I have personally seen pictures of Mike Bibby at his house in Loomis.
I can personally tell you that I knew that Ron Artest's Jersey number would be 93 in excess of 5 days before the trade of Jan. 25th because of OB. If you doubt him or I thats cool... just don't act like something in his story doesn't add up. We understand your being a skeptic, but you should understand that the way you question it is vaginal in nature.
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by Original Ballboy on Nov 21, 2007 11:37 AM PST up reply actions
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Most likely, KK didn't know about or didn't participate in OB's original diary. If it were me, I'd be suspicious as well.
Nothing really to get worked up about IMO.
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Lets say that sactownroyalty finds a member that has consistent inside info to the Kings players similar to what we saw regarding Spencer Hawes as of a month ago. Should we embrace this person's pontential knowledge? I say yes, I know that Mr. OB is personally connected with the Kings, just don't hate because your not the one presenting the info. Each and every one of these players are real people. They also talk to real people. On top of that, OB is the most aggressively outgoing person I know. At a Kings game he once told Jeff Garcia (of the 49ers) to step it up because he was on his fantasy team, and told Terrell Owens to take easy (because he was on my team), needless to say, both players weren't sitting together.
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And you lit into KK pretty hard over it.
If I hadn't read OB's previous entries, I probably would have thought the same thing KK did, that's all.
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My intent wasn't to incite either CD or OB and I wasn't questioning OB's truthfulness (as noted in my original reply). So, my apologies to whomever was offended by my post. I have not seen OB's original diary so I will go do some searching around. I have (as of five minutes ago) read his profile blurb so I have a little better understanding of where he's coming from.
Once again, my apologies to OB and CD.
by KK on Nov 24, 2007 4:11 PM PST up reply actions
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Why is Voisin untruthfull?
I really don't see what's in it for her if access to the organisation is denied to her because of hyberbolic ramblings.That seems kinda...stupid.
& I have to say something to cdoggy about the "vagina" comment....I take it you're a dude, cool & all that...but I get disconcerted as a chick to have "whussiness" automatically equated with having a vagina.Soem of us are pretty tough dudes. Even if we're pretty.
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to everyone else on StR: I will do my best to post more often, and make myself and my opinions better known, to therefore enhance my visibility and credibility. I assure you that as I have stated in my profile I and my family have a close relationship with the Kings organization. And if I say something that's "inside information", you can take is as fact, because I will only write it if I or my father was a personal witness to the situation.
to Rhondda: Why would Voisin have motive to be untruthful? She's a writer. And she wants more coverage and readers.
by Original Ballboy on Nov 27, 2007 12:32 PM PST reply actions
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Well...you tell me.
by Rhondda Nunes on Nov 27, 2007 5:51 PM PST up reply actions
Here's another thought...
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by Artestify on Nov 28, 2007 3:28 PM PST reply actions
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by Artestify on Nov 28, 2007 3:29 PM PST up reply actions
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by Original Ballboy on Nov 28, 2007 4:19 PM PST up reply actions

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