Gary Payton II Trade to the Warriors (1 Viewer)

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PCmor7 said:
I wouldn't want the Blazers to do it, but I wonder if the Blazers could nix the trade. Just let GP2 waste away on the bench forever.
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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.
 
theprunetang said:
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.
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Well, maybe Nurk knows someone in the Bosnian mafia then ....
 
Strenuus said:
Don't try to sweep this under the rug, fuck you GSW. You tried to make a whole organization look bad after they helped your boy pay what you weren't willing to.

Like I said, GSW and GP can fuck all the way off.
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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.
 
PCmor7 said:
Did he really?
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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.
 
MickZagger said:
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.
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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.
 
BBert said:
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.
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Seems like something the Blazers should file a complaint about and have investigated ....
 
PCmor7 said:
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.
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If I had twitter I would join them.
 
theprunetang said:
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.
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I thought we never have a chance to sign anyone in free agency. So it wouldn't matter.
 
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SwissBlazer said:
I am one of then
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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.
 
PCmor7 said:
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.
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can you direct me to any of those threads?
 
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.
 
wizenheimer said:
can you direct me to any of those threads?
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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.
 
PCmor7 said:
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.
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Everyone has to be clickbait nowadays.
 
blazerfan11 said:
Everyone has to be clickbait nowadays.
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Not everyone, but, unfortunately, a lot of the ones that do it get rewarded. Too many people like to swim in the drama.

The 24-hour, get-it-out-there-first news cycle has really damaged good journalism, along with the bad pay and hours. People glorify the columnists and pundits over the actual reporters and no one knows the difference. It takes little time for someone to write 500 words of what they think ... they don't even need to be informed. But, you know, actually talking to people, sending messages, waiting for them to get back to you and then finding someone else to corroborate that source? That takes time and effort.
 
PCmor7 said:
Not everyone, but, unfortunately, a lot of the ones that do it get rewarded. Too many people like to swim in the drama.

The 24-hour, get-it-out-there-first news cycle has really damaged good journalism, along with the bad pay and hours. People glorify the columnists and pundits over the actual reporters and no one knows the difference. It takes little time for someone to write 500 words of what they think ... they don't even need to be informed. But, you know, actually talking to people, sending messages, waiting for them to get back to you and then finding someone else to corroborate that source? That takes time and effort.
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Preach
 
yeah...it really looks like Woj knows he stepped in it by basically being a PR flack for the Warriors and is busy trying to convince everyone he's not in the bag
 
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