As much as I appreciate warranted vindictiveness, the player's union would hate it, and would absolutely cripple our chances of ever signing someone in free agency.
As far as I'm concerned it appears highly likely that both the Warriors and GPII planned all along to have the Blazers pay the lion's share of Payton's contract, and for Payton to goldbrick and irritate his way back to GS in time for the playoffs.
yeah said in an interview this week that when Olshey was around that the franchise was much more professional and people were punctual. That Olshey tan a tight ship. But wait wasn’t it Olshey who was accused of having a hostile work environment? Lots of contradiction.
I haven't looked in a couple of hours, but Woj and Shams both were getting dragged a bit on Twitter earlier today about this and not just by Blazer fans.
That translates in reporter to "They had a guy who gave me scoops off the record that I could pursue and now they don't have people who leak stuff to me." Trust me, I'm in the business, and I know guys that are unscrupulous in exactly this way.
I've been looking again now that I'm back from my run. Yeah, there are just regular fans taking them to task, telling them they should retract, saying they wrote hit pieces and that they were flooding their newsfeed repeating the same vague information over and over.
The Warrios should be thrilled. They got back a guy they wanted back while ditching two contracts/players they didn't want for the cost of five future picks between 31 and 60. They just played Payton. They knew what they were getting. Yeah, this seems like just pettiness at Cronin demanding all five picks to give the Waaaarrrios something that was of value to them and only them and they were put off at the audacity of the Blazers to demand that after putting up with GPII and his about 15 games of action and being a locker room cancer until he was dealt. The one thing I definitely think becomes the case after this: The price for the Warriors to do business with the Blazers in the future just went up.
Sure, there are a bunch of comment threads to this tweet. If you look in most of the longer ones there are shots at Woj. If I find any specific ones or those dragging Shams, I'll put them up, too.
