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i mean, something is gonna give between the warriors and klay, draymond, poole, wiggins etc. they're gonna have to shed a $100m+ contract from their payroll at some point.

yeah seems like theyre ok playing the huge tax bill as long as theyre competing but im sure theyre thinking about how to not have all that on the books once the team ages out, maybe they can give dray a big two year deal or something

also seems unlikely management has real warm personal feelings towards him that might lead them to throw him a bone for old times sake

this is not that great tbh

Draymond’s punch on Jordan Poole pic.twitter.com/lsvlCUwZcC

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) October 7, 2022

love to punch on my teammates

he sucker punched him, weak shit

he got him too that was not some little jab

Dang that was a hard punch

draymond has to be this way in order to maintain his edge

what a piece of shit

Yikes

suspension incoming

Yah that’s a worse than expected. Could be the end of the line for this squad not really sure how they get through this

yeah thats about as bad as possible, was picturing some little squabble

guess he couldve snuck up and punched him in the back of the head but whatever, hard to say what the fallout will be, maybe poole is chill abt this sort of thing but seems like him and dray already arent great friends so who knows, maybe they just power through it for the good of the business, whatre they gonna do trade him idk

why didnt he punched poole in the playoffs? fuck

we would had a celtics championship rn

lol

if i had to guess a substantial suspension for dray 5-10 games and then try to move forward

Yah but I don’t see how Dray has any voice in the locker room any more. He’s supposed to mentoring all the young guys. He just cost himself a lot of money off that contract talk too. Poole could easily say him or me. Just a lot of things that can happen from here and everyone just moving on and locking back in seems very unlikely

its a fraught situation for sure, i wonder how much this changes his rep amongst the guys tho, i mean hes a famous loose cannon

tho on the other hand he did pretty clearly cross a line, you dont want to have to worry about being sucker punched every time you go to work

guess a lot depends on where pooles at, managements ability to finesse the situation, how sick management is of dray, but ultimately their championship aspirations are done without him so i say they probably just try to make it work, tho maybe theres a path forward if they trade him and a young guy idk

trade poole and not dray lol that would be some sick shit

maybe no one on the team thinks its that big of a deal more of a these things happen type situ

this was some ugly pr btw

Draymond Green was apologetic in aftermath of the altercation with Jordan Poole, but there was a buildup stemming from teammates noticing a change in Poole’s behavior throughout camp with the guard on the verge of securing a lucrative extension, league sources tell @YahooSports.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) October 6, 2022

I don’t think it’ll be a big deal…they just won a championship

what about the vibes tho

so many teams in turmoil

poole punched for flexing too hard smh

breaking: haters mad

btw feeling better about the celtics turmoil after watching a couple preseason games, the udoka situation doesnt seem to have affected the vibes, obvs still a lot of questions re if the new coaching will be good, and then injury stuff too, but they were totally rolling

obviously a coach was different but last year when gerson rosas got fired everyone was like oh no wolves in turmoil and i'm not sure any of the players really cared either way, does feel like outside speculation can overestimate the impact of that stuff

yeah celtics just had an insanely bad lead up to the season between injuries and scandal, it was worrying, and still is tbf, just less so, maybe

i dont want to get too CELTICS 2010 in here but brogdon is looking like a pretty nice fit

brogdon is a guy who would fit on basically any team

its true, but specifically he seems to be addressing some vital celtics shortcomings in backcourt shooting and playmaking, although he actually hasnt shot well so far but we do know that he can shoot

wonder if kerr has the footage of jordan punching him and has been sitting on it waiting for this moment to be able to show a player and say "see? nbd, we move"

lol he should release it

Draymond is tryna get to LA.
Damn ! 😳

— Trae Young (@TheTraeYoung) October 7, 2022

fair

Who leaked this to TMZ, and why? pic.twitter.com/qUuI49swKb

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 7, 2022

based on what we know about what sports teams pay low level staffers, prob someone who tripled their yearly salary selling that video

players chiming in

There is no way you can get back to being teammates after a punch like that.

— Evan Fournier (@EvanFourmizz) October 7, 2022

based on what we know about what sports teams pay low level staffers, prob someone who tripled their yearly salary selling that video

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 7, 2022 9:51 AM (six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

def seems like a $250k video

the way NBA players use twitter is one of the joys of the league

based on what we know about what sports teams pay low level staffers, prob someone who tripled their yearly salary selling that video

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 7, 2022 12:51 PM (thirty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

probably, and the fact that tmz a place willing to pay got it makes that scenario basically fact, BUT its not hard to think of reasons management would want that video out there

idk it makes them look pretty bad. i don't think they really needed much of a pretense to suspend draymond, not re-sign him etc

i dont really consider this a true sucker punch. they were facing eachother and poole pushed him, its a sucker punch just not like a blindside thing that i usually associate with a sucker punch. i wanna know what poole said tho cos he's gotten under drays skin with quick words before

i dont think mgmt leaked that. they all look worse after the pressers from yesterday now

i think its a sucker punch in that poole had no idea it was coming, and sure poole pushed him but dray completely got in his face basically walked over there and attacked him, if this had all gone down in say a bar with a stranger the read might be different but in the context that it happened poole just had no thought that he was about to get decked

idk it makes them look pretty bad. i don't think they really needed much of a pretense to suspend draymond, not re-sign him etc

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 7, 2022 12:56 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk im sure dubs fans have very strong feelings about their guys, also what if theyre gonna trade him, tbh i dont think this is whats happening... but maybe