Gary Payton II Trade to the Warriors

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  1. B-Roy

    B-Roy If it takes months

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    Who said this?
     
    B-Roy, Feb 11, 2023
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...-face-sunday-night-deadline-gary-payton-trade

    Seems like the main issue is the Toradol shots.
     
    B-Roy, Feb 11, 2023
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    Pinwheel1 Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, I agree...... "forcing him to play" seems laughable.
     
    Pinwheel1, Feb 11, 2023
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    interesting that Woj's piece has nothing in it about the supposed 3 months timeline for GP2 weeks to return to play
     
    illmatic99, Feb 11, 2023
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    A lot of people are attaching the initial report to Shams, but I've seen others attribute Shams and a GS beat writer with "breaking" this story, which gets more and more diluted with each passing hour.

    -- He's gone from being out months to possibly weeks (how long before it becomes days?)
    -- There's a press conference from before he started playing for the Blazers where he addresses the core injury.
    -- With all the Blazers who've missed time with injuries, the one-dimensional reserve guard who was seeing 16 minutes per game seems to be the only one forced to play.
    -- You can't "force" anyone to play.
    -- There's video of him walking about the Warriors training facility in workout clothes.
    -- There's just "sources," no names. One would think if his story was legit, at the very least Josh Hart would have been contacted to corroborate by now.
    -- We have whispers that Payton didn't mesh well with his Blazers teammates.

    But Shams tweets it as if it's fact and everyone else jumps on it. If Payton plays anytime soon, Shams deserves to be Twitter-bombed and drug hard for some lousy journalism ... it's not always about having the story fast, you also need to get it right.
     
    PCmor7, Feb 11, 2023
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    Natts "connections."
     
    HailBlazers, Feb 11, 2023
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    Just spitballing here, but several analysts have commented that we dragged GS over the coals for each and every one of those draft picks. They could be making a mountain out of a molehill just to make us sweat that the NBA will penalize us a draft pick or two.

    This incident is hardly Dr. Cook and Bill Walton.
     
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    Agreed on all counts.
     
    Strenuus, Feb 11, 2023
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    If the Blazers withheld medical info to get a trade through they all need to be fired.

    If GS is falsely claiming the Blazers withheld medical info they all should be fired.

    So either the Blazers or Warriors front office needs to go.
     
    SharpesTriumph, Feb 11, 2023
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    NBA teams don't falsely acuse other front offices of serious allegations just to "make them sweat"
     
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    We need to have an undercover boss episode from each team to get to the bottom of this
     
    Strenuus, Feb 11, 2023
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    He just has resting core injury face.
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    You'd be surprised at how petty these people can be.
     
    maxiep, Feb 11, 2023
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    Thing is, I could see Payton doing it. Lmao. He's already shown his true colors.

    And I also realize that GSW would have shut it down.

    But this is all funny as shit and as the song goes "a chaaaaange is gonna come"
     
    Strenuus, Feb 11, 2023
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    We need to hire Benoit Blanc
     
    inconceivable, Feb 11, 2023
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    Could we get The Big Red Heads perspective on this?
     
    Hoopguru, Feb 11, 2023
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    Lmao!!!!!

     
    illmatic99, Feb 11, 2023
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    Obviously someone on the team gave GPII roofies. Then the Blazer training staff shot him up with a heavy dose of ibuprofen. It all makes sense.
     
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    Wait, so GP2 went out on the court without painkillers and then bitches he was forced to....

    KEEP THE STORY STRAIGHT YOU MONEY STEALING MFER
     
    Strenuus, Feb 11, 2023
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    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    Man, the league needs to shut these fucks down. Make em pay up another pick for this nonsense.
     
    illmatic99, Feb 11, 2023
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