The beauty of being home all day is finding out that apparently you can be called an expert and an insider even if you are nowhere near the story. NBA free agency is yet another opportunity to hear the "insiders" give these grand statements of the plans athletes have.

Lebron James has been a LOCK to go to New York, stay in Cleveland, net big money in New Jersey, stay in Cleveland again, hit South Beach, stay in Cleveland again and replace the pasty faced guy in the "Twilight" series.

It all sounds so certain with ESPN calling every person with a laptop and a press pass an "insider." It is an age when the players' twitter accounts are considered sources. "How did Chris Bosh feel after a late night talk with the Rockets? ESPN Insider Chris Broussard reads you that tweet."

Oddly, there are 10 other insiders who check out the Facebook pages and ESPN First Take is able to fill 10 minutes and contradict what Sportscenter reported two hours before.

One of the oddest parts of all of this is they are not reporting what they are doing so much as what they are thinking. Jim Rome asks his "insider" what Byron Scott is thinking taking the Cavaliers job. The question of Lebron James' hesitance to play in the shadow of Michael Jordan in Chicago apparently is required at least twice an hour. Is Lebron threatened by playing in Dwyane Wade's city because he must be the Alpha Dog?

You are not in the inner circle but apparently using the words, "I really don't know" are worse than cursing on the Worldwide Leader.

I'll be honest. I don't know. In my days covering him with the Bucks I interviewed Ray Allen more than 100 times. We always got along. He was always pleasant. I never came away with anything other than positive feelings about him as a player and a person.

However, just because I interviewed him does not mean I know what he thinks.

I saw or covered every game of Dwyane Wade's Marquette career. Again, nothing but good experiences came my way. I was there at the start and, during his freshman year he even did a funny bit for me on Fox Six for a story I was doing and it went great. However, would I consider myself an "insider" in his camp? No. Would ESPN? If they have time to fill, yes.

The point is that some of these players do not even know what they are doing yet. Then, there are some who know but are not going to let us know. You do not really know what kind of people they are when your interaction is in the middle of forty microphones in their faces or in two minute phone conversations.

Breaking a story is a different story. If you find out for sure that Lebron is headed to the Bucks (first of all, Hallelujah if that would happen!) then that is what I want to hear from you as a reporter. That is actual reporting.

I do not want to hear Lebron's feelings on the matter because I truly do not believe that you know. His family may not know minute-to-minute but some guy sitting in Connecticut does?

If you want to really get my feelings on the matter and why I wrote this, you can contact this kid Brent Teerlinck who was on my Little League Baseball team when I was 12. He should have some pretty good John Pearson Insider Insight.