No they could write what they were given accurate info as to what came down. Now if they can't betray a confidence then that is understandable.
If they are just too pussy to go against the sports media establishment club then that is sad. This is an industry where Steven A Smith is highly paid. Skip Bayless did a Kevin Durbetta type fake account propping his own weak takes up and hardly got called out for it and continues to earn millions. We could go on.
Site owner was able to obtain some info and to my memory put it at 50-50 as to Nephews causing the split vs the Spurs.