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All right, a fresh new thread for us to not know what’s going on or how it might resolve itself except that everything is definitely worse than it was three hours ago

https://dubnationhq.com/p/gary-payton-ii-james-wiseman-trade?sd=pf

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Sad thing is that the league will probably at most give the Blazers a slap on the wrist if they do anything at all.

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Marcus Thompson:

What’s the tougher ask: getting hustled and waiting for GP2 to get healthy, or welcoming Wiseman back into the fold after giving up on him?

That’s the Warriors’ decision.

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If I were to tell you that something unexpected is about to be announced, how surprised would you be at this point?

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Blazers should give us Thybulle

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If league says no amendments, and serious concerns with GP2 health... cancel the damn trade, let everybody else stew in their mess... and revisit Wiseman trade in the summer.

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If the whole trade week was a movie, you’d say that is exaggerated, just not realistic.

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If the warriors let this trade go through, we’ve replaced one unplayable player with another one, and saved some cash. I guess that’s a meh trade?

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Feb 11, 2023·edited Feb 11, 2023

This week has had more plot twists than "The Usual Suspects." I can't handle much more my soul has been bludgeoned like pinatas at a 5 year old's party. Oh, and make the pinatas of the Blazers training staff please

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Blazers should be fined millions of dollars which should go to the Warriors for compensation for mental anguish.

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Sean Highkin

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Joe Cronin declined to comment when I asked him about the Gary Payton II physical situation and the Athletic report.

LOL

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Maybe as part of the restructuring of the trade, Dubs get Thybulle for the rest of the season on Portland's dime. Plus all of the 2nds they got. And GPII doesn't take up a roster spot until he's healed.

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this is why you don't wait til the deadline

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*Tin foil on*

I guess Blazers medical/training screwed up when they cleared GP2 acquisition in summer. So to save their asses, they pushed GP2 to play with meds and hoped that trade will go through and no one will know.

Blazers organization as a whole has to be aware of this.

What A-holes

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Good grief. Just found out about this. Are we seriously being Correia'd?

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I’m working on a new thread gathering all the info we know. This will give you enough time to delete or edit anything awkward you’ve ever written about James Wiseman

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