Gary Payton II Trade to the Warriors

Gary had issues with some players on the team (according to reports). One of them was probably Justise.

 

Marang/Highkin said yesterday the "minutes restriction" info that was being passed around by the media was given to them by Gary, not the team.

 

dude is soft.

i need to reread that shams piece to see if i can glean who the source was on this. could just be gary himself. doubt Goodwin would get leak it given his terrific relationship with the org, or the GS side tbh, because very little is to be gained from their end either. he got hurt as a Warrior so what is there to disclose?

 

Any other interesting quotes in the piece? I don't have the athletic anymore.

 

I just can't imagine in this day and age of players being so careful with their bodies and sitting out games just to rest that GPII was going full "North Dallas 40" to play a limited role 16 minutes a night for a borderline play-in team that he had no problem sitting out the first half of the season for.

 

I'm just saying, I've had Toradol in the ER before, and I DID NOT feel like I could hoop. That stuff is powerful.

 

Something seems fishy here. But my goodness this makes the organization look terrible if they let something slip under the cracks.

 

LOL it has to be Gary himself, slimy POS.

here it is in its entirety.

Gary Payton II — the Warriors’ high-profile trade deadline acquisition — could miss two-to-three months after a core muscle issue showed up in his physical on Friday morning, league sources confirmed to The Athletic, putting the four-team deal between the Warriors, Pistons, Hawks and Blazers in jeopardy. The Warriors ruled him as a failed physical on Friday, and have until Saturday to go through with the deal as a technical pass of the physical or rescind the entire trade.

This was a surprise revelation to the Warriors during the intake process. There have been behind the scenes discussions on Friday about the possibility of amendments to the trade — or full reversal of the deal. The amount of parties involved (four teams, four players) complicates matters.

Payton, according to sources, had been playing through pain in Portland. Sources added that the Blazers training staff had been pushing him to gut through it, giving him Toradol shots. This had not been relayed to the Warriors during the negotiation process.

Payton had abdominal surgery during the summer. The Blazers initially projected he’d be ready for the regular season. But his rehab lingered, his timeline kept getting pushed back and Payton ended up missing the season’s first 35 games, hinting after his return that he still didn’t feel fully right, mentioning a few setbacks.

“It is what it is,” Payton said the night he came back. “Probably my fourth or fifth surgery the last five or six years…It’s at the point that it’s the best it’s going to be for this year. Just gotta thug it out.”

To acquire Payton, the Warriors traded James Wiseman to the Pistons and then rerouted Saddiq Bey to Atlanta for five second-round picks — obtaining the draft capital it cost to get Payton from Portland. It was all eventually roped into a complex four-team deal. That deal is now up in the air.

The Warriors viewed Payton as a win-now acquisition to bolster the team for the stretch run, but now must decide whether to move forward with this deal that could have the 2022 Golden State NBA champion sidelined for a long period of time. Payton has two years and $17.8 million remaining on his contract after this season.

Payton signed a three-year, $26.1 million deal with the Blazers in free agency, leaving the Warriors after a successful stint developing in their system.

 

There are 7 IG posts the Trailblazers account made welcoming new players and saying goodbye to the old ones (Josh, GB, Thybulle, Reddish, Archi, Knox, Gary).

Ant liked every post except for the ones about Archi and.....Gary. Lol.

This is like the one time I want someone to force their way into a Nurk interview to just ask him about how he feels about Gary. I don't think he'd be able to hold back.

 

I did some exhaustive research, and came to the conclusion that GP2Good2BeTrue was not rushed back.

http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/gp2-underwent-an-off-season-procedure.379006/

GSW, you're welcome.

 

Agreed, if this story were 100% true, which it almost certianly isn't.

 

the fact that his bullshit "thug it out" comment made the article seals it for me that this was 100% from payton himself.

look at what dame went through, you soft POS.

and seriously, be better Joe. you have to vet these guys completely before making such rash moves in FA.

 

GP2 seems like a real POS. His dad must be mortified.

 

Sipping on toradol

 

This is going to end up being the worst thing about the Payton signing: That a bunch of casual fans or Warriors bandwagoners are going to just see his accusations and drag the Blazers for it. If he's embellishing or lying, there's no punishment for it. Story probably just goes away but because the Warriors are such a high-profile team currently all people are going to think is "The Blazers shot him up and made him play because they were so desperate to make the playoffs." A team that just tanked and didn't make any big moves at the deadline out of desperation. A team that let GPII sit half the year, let Justise Winslow sit 2 months. Heck, a team that signed a big on a two-way contract and hasn't rushed him back from injury even when we have no other bigs.

But, no, Gary Payton Jr. was the one piece the Blazers just needed on the floor 16 minutes per night to get them into the playoffs.

I'm sorry, but it's so counter-intuitive it's stupid.

 

That quote was from the night he came back

 

was laughable then.

is ridiculous now.

dude played 255 minutes for us. Total.

Dame plays that many minutes in a week and half.

what is he thugging out hanging out on the bench?

 

Why do the Warriors players all seem to love Gary and we're getting the impression that the Blazers didn't? Why the Jekyll and Hyde?