This has done serious damage to the organization and trust of the medical staff. I would want a full retraction from Gary/Warriors and picks/cash back for damages. Just sounds fair to me
What I haven't seen/heard is the real possibility that it was aggravated or reinjured after he was cleared to play. The medical staff could have cleared him & told him to expect some discomfort as he ramps up activities. When GPII was complaining about being in pain - the medical staff dismissed it as 'normal' process instead of doing another MRI
hasn't it been reported that Dame had been declining surgery? he finally gave in after getting feedback from Jrue Holiday at Team USA and after speaking with Kyle Lowry. Hell he even tried to play through it last season until New Years, when he had to be sit down by Cronin et al. Once he found out we were tanking he finally gave in.
Monte Poole, the beat writer for GS just said in an interview that Payton’s injury timeline is not months, but weeks. already walking it all back piece by piece
I'm sure all the national pundits and the Warriors bandwagon will be digging hard into those claims by an anonymous source that started by floating out of a GS beat writer ... I'll bet it'll be all over Twitter when they all retract their outrage at the Blazers and start calling the Warriors a dirty organization instead. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure that'll happen.
This almost sounds like the problem is not the Blazers or the Warriors but either GP2 and/or his reps etc but even if this is resolved with nothing bad happening to the Blazers makes me wonder if other teams might be a tad gun shy dealing with themfor the near future.
We definitely don't know everything yet, so we can't make definitive statements. With that said, I tend to agree with this assessment. It seems like there was some bad blood or animosity behind the scenes and GP is being a petty bitchbaby trying to smear the Blazers on the way out. I could be way off though and will admit to being wrong if I am proven wrong. We shall see.
I can't see why. Regardless of who you trade with you still need to do a physical for the player you are getting. If the Blazers called Minnesota and said "hey we will give you Dame for Rudy Gobert...are you interested"? Do you think the TWolves would turn it down because of this?
2-3 weeks? That's a big jump from 3 months just 24 hours ago. That side needs to get their story straight.
LOL..."waive the physical and keep him even if he's out another 2, 3, or 4 weeks" 3 months has now potentially become 2 weeks. This has been a fucking mess created by Payton
I think Payton is full of shit and the Warriors are in on it. Gary Payton II has abdominal surgery, expected to be ready for season https://sports.yahoo.com/gary-payton-ii-abdominal-surgery-180048717.html
