Kerr jokes about Klay: 'We're not trading him to Boston'

While we live in an era where "news" stories of dubious veracity have become a fact of life, the field of sports trade rumors have been working their often-incorrect magic for years.

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr alluded to that Wednesday, after heaping praise on his shooting guard, Klay Thompson.

"And we're not trading him to Boston," Kerr summarized, according to Bay Area News Group's Anthony Slater.

Kerr was referring to a mini-controversy from last month, when former NBAer and CSN/Yahoo analyst Brian Scalabrine mentioned a Thompson-to-the-Celtics rumor during a radio interview. The basketball internet - living in 2016 like the rest of us - leaped into a short fury until Scalabrine clarified he had no inside information, but rather he'd merely read baseless speculation on a website.

The Celtics, of course, have also been the rumored destination for half the stars in the NBA over the past few seasons, by virtue of their draft assets and a belief that president Danny Ainge wants to add an elite-level player.

Cross one (or for that matter, both) of the Splash Brothers off the list, however.