Michael Hiestand of USA Today spoke with legendary NBA announcer and back-biting toupee wearer Marv Albert about what Albert says were “upsetting” reports about his altercation with 50 Cent’s entourage during a taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live.

At issue is what happened when Albert last week was getting set to appear on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live. As he was walking backstage to his dressing room he "heard something" that he thought were people "kidding around." The raised voices, he thinks, came from someone with rapper 50 Cent— another Kimmel guest — wanting to use a phone in Albert's room. "But I didn't even see the guys and don't even think there was a scuffle."

Still, the diminutive TNT NBA announcer says he and friends and family found various online accounts of "stuff that never happened" — included that he and 50 Cent had a fight. "I kept reading about new things that never happened. Maybe it will keep going until Jimmy Kimmel gets punched."

He added, while on the Dan Patrick Show (via Deadspin) that he “never crossed paths with 50 Cent” and that “I'll be able to laugh about this eventually --  maybe in a few days, but it's not that funny to me right now because you see first-hand, and you know this, how a story can be made up and then embellished you know just like a game of telephone tag with no accountability because it never happened.”

Well that’s thoroughly disappointing, isn’t it? People start saying that you got in some kind of a badass scuffle with 50 Cent and his entourage, and your first reaction is to go out and deny it? I just don’t understand.

According to his comments to Dan Patrick, Marv and 50 are just fine with each other—in fact, they’re “going out for brunch.” Ugh.