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| pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | Love how Woj keeps the Lakers out of the teams showing interest in Griffin, but Stein and others have reported Lakers interest. |
Woj doesn't have links to the FO, so he wouldn't hear about it
Lol you guys sometimes with your wojspiracies. What's the implication here? Woj is hoping Griffin will read his tweets and think "hmmm...guess the Lakers don't want me. Also, i'm not going to talk to my agent for the next few days" |
No. The implication is woj is on Ballmer’s payroll which a ton of people believe. Just poke around... |
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| So why the long wait to make the Griffin to Nets official? Gotta think another contender is swaying his decision right now |
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activeverb
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Inspector Gadget wrote: | | So why the long wait to make the Griffin to Nets official? Gotta think another contender is swaying his decision right now |
Long wait? He was bought out just a couple of hours ago. Now he'll probably talk with a few teams, and make his decision sometime next week. |
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anth2000
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Inspector Gadget wrote: | | So why the long wait to make the Griffin to Nets official? Gotta think another contender is swaying his decision right now |
Long wait, IG? Wow, you think things move a lot faster than they do. I see him signing in a week or two. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Inspector Gadget wrote: | | So why the long wait to make the Griffin to Nets official? Gotta think another contender is swaying his decision right now |
He needs to clear waivers. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| LakerSD wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | Love how Woj keeps the Lakers out of the teams showing interest in Griffin, but Stein and others have reported Lakers interest. |
Woj doesn't have links to the FO, so he wouldn't hear about it
Lol you guys sometimes with your wojspiracies. What's the implication here? Woj is hoping Griffin will read his tweets and think "hmmm...guess the Lakers don't want me. Also, i'm not going to talk to my agent for the next few days" |
No. The implication is woj is on Ballmer’s payroll which a ton of people believe. Just poke around... |
Even pretending that's true...so what? Why is Woj "keeping" the Lakers out of Blake talks in your eyes? Is he a gatekeeper between teams and agents? |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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| pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | Love how Woj keeps the Lakers out of the teams showing interest in Griffin, but Stein and others have reported Lakers interest. |
Woj doesn't have links to the FO, so he wouldn't hear about it
Lol you guys sometimes with your wojspiracies. What's the implication here? Woj is hoping Griffin will read his tweets and think "hmmm...guess the Lakers don't want me. Also, i'm not going to talk to my agent for the next few days" |
No. The implication is woj is on Ballmer’s payroll which a ton of people believe. Just poke around... |
Even pretending that's true...so what? Why is Woj "keeping" the Lakers out of Blake talks in your eyes? Is he a gatekeeper between teams and agents? |
I think the logic is that Ballmer is paying Woj to say the Lakers aren’t interested and when the Lakers see that they’ll think “damn guess we aren’t interested” and move on.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| ocho wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | Love how Woj keeps the Lakers out of the teams showing interest in Griffin, but Stein and others have reported Lakers interest. |
Woj doesn't have links to the FO, so he wouldn't hear about it
Lol you guys sometimes with your wojspiracies. What's the implication here? Woj is hoping Griffin will read his tweets and think "hmmm...guess the Lakers don't want me. Also, i'm not going to talk to my agent for the next few days" |
No. The implication is woj is on Ballmer’s payroll which a ton of people believe. Just poke around... |
Even pretending that's true...so what? Why is Woj "keeping" the Lakers out of Blake talks in your eyes? Is he a gatekeeper between teams and agents? |
I think the logic is that Ballmer is paying Woj to say the Lakers aren’t interested and when the Lakers see that they’ll think “damn guess we aren’t interested” and move on. |
Next level psycho-ops by Ballmer. If only he had thought to ask Woj to tweet "The Lakers are not interested in Lebron James" and "The Lakers have decided not to trade for Anthony Davis." |
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Blake probably already lined up his next team before accepting the buyout. Yes that’s tampering but it probably happens all the time. Nets can offer most money with that Dinwiddie injury exception.
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| pjiddy wrote: | | Next level psycho-ops by Ballmer. |
Okay, I'm not supposed to tell you this, but what the heck. You know all those stories about how Bill Gates is using the Covid-19 vaccine to microchip everyone? Well, the stories weren't quite right. It's Ballmer, not Gates.
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| The idea that the Clippers are a possible destination is nuts. Brooklyn seems like an obvious destination for a number of reasons (including playing with DeAndre again). It would however IMO signal Brooklyn wasn't likely to get Drummond in a buyout. Perhaps Andre never gets there, but it's hard to imagine them adding both. |
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| pjiddy wrote: | | ocho wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | Love how Woj keeps the Lakers out of the teams showing interest in Griffin, but Stein and others have reported Lakers interest. |
Woj doesn't have links to the FO, so he wouldn't hear about it
Lol you guys sometimes with your wojspiracies. What's the implication here? Woj is hoping Griffin will read his tweets and think "hmmm...guess the Lakers don't want me. Also, i'm not going to talk to my agent for the next few days" |
No. The implication is woj is on Ballmer’s payroll which a ton of people believe. Just poke around... |
Even pretending that's true...so what? Why is Woj "keeping" the Lakers out of Blake talks in your eyes? Is he a gatekeeper between teams and agents? |
I think the logic is that Ballmer is paying Woj to say the Lakers aren’t interested and when the Lakers see that they’ll think “damn guess we aren’t interested” and move on. |
Next level psycho-ops by Ballmer. If only he had thought to ask Woj to tweet "The Lakers are not interested in Lebron James" and "The Lakers have decided not to trade for Anthony Davis." |
It’s a propaganda game in the media. Let’s not have a dishonest spin on this. It was talked about all last season.
This has nothing to do with “fooling” the Lakers. It’s using the media to drive agenda. Woj is getting compensated for all his pro-clippers pushing tweets.
Anyway, yeah sure I’m a conspiracy theorist. Back to trade/buyout talk. |
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| LakerSD wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | ocho wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | Love how Woj keeps the Lakers out of the teams showing interest in Griffin, but Stein and others have reported Lakers interest. |
Woj doesn't have links to the FO, so he wouldn't hear about it
Lol you guys sometimes with your wojspiracies. What's the implication here? Woj is hoping Griffin will read his tweets and think "hmmm...guess the Lakers don't want me. Also, i'm not going to talk to my agent for the next few days" |
No. The implication is woj is on Ballmer’s payroll which a ton of people believe. Just poke around... |
Even pretending that's true...so what? Why is Woj "keeping" the Lakers out of Blake talks in your eyes? Is he a gatekeeper between teams and agents? |
I think the logic is that Ballmer is paying Woj to say the Lakers aren’t interested and when the Lakers see that they’ll think “damn guess we aren’t interested” and move on. |
Next level psycho-ops by Ballmer. If only he had thought to ask Woj to tweet "The Lakers are not interested in Lebron James" and "The Lakers have decided not to trade for Anthony Davis." |
It’s a propaganda game in the media. Let’s not have a dishonest spin on this. It was talked about all last season.
This has nothing to do with “fooling” the Lakers. It’s using the media to drive agenda. Woj is getting compensated for all his pro-clippers pushing tweets.
Anyway, yeah sure I’m a conspiracy theorist. Back to trade/buyout talk. |
I think it's a legit take. Not sure what I believe but I find Woj's infamous "sauces" to have taken a strange spin ever since he joined espn. I felt he was more - reliable? - when he was just "that yahoo guy". |
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Here's my hot take for the day:
Lakers will make zero trades. Only move will be in the buyout market. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Aeneas Hunter wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | Next level psycho-ops by Ballmer. |
Okay, I'm not supposed to tell you this, but what the heck. You know all those stories about how Bill Gates is using the Covid-19 vaccine to microchip everyone? Well, the stories weren't quite right. It's Ballmer, not Gates. |
Be careful. Someone is going to twit this out and it will go viral  |
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| DrDent wrote: | Here's my hot take for the day:
Lakers will make zero trades. Only move will be in the buyout market. |
What made you come to that conclusion? I think it’s a very good sign that things have been quiet for the Lakers, usually that’s when something is happening.. you just never know that’s why fans are f5ing most of the time. |
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| LakerSD wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | ocho wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | Love how Woj keeps the Lakers out of the teams showing interest in Griffin, but Stein and others have reported Lakers interest. |
Woj doesn't have links to the FO, so he wouldn't hear about it
Lol you guys sometimes with your wojspiracies. What's the implication here? Woj is hoping Griffin will read his tweets and think "hmmm...guess the Lakers don't want me. Also, i'm not going to talk to my agent for the next few days" |
No. The implication is woj is on Ballmer’s payroll which a ton of people believe. Just poke around... |
Even pretending that's true...so what? Why is Woj "keeping" the Lakers out of Blake talks in your eyes? Is he a gatekeeper between teams and agents? |
I think the logic is that Ballmer is paying Woj to say the Lakers aren’t interested and when the Lakers see that they’ll think “damn guess we aren’t interested” and move on. |
Next level psycho-ops by Ballmer. If only he had thought to ask Woj to tweet "The Lakers are not interested in Lebron James" and "The Lakers have decided not to trade for Anthony Davis." |
It’s a propaganda game in the media. Let’s not have a dishonest spin on this. It was talked about all last season.
This has nothing to do with “fooling” the Lakers. It’s using the media to drive agenda. Woj is getting compensated for all his pro-clippers pushing tweets.
Anyway, yeah sure I’m a conspiracy theorist. Back to trade/buyout talk. |
Any good conspiracy theory ought to at least have some hypothetical benefit to someone. Anyone. It’s the problem the flat earthers have. To whom does the insistence that the world is round benefit? The idea that Ballmer employs Woj (who, of course, risks his entire career and reputation by taking this kickback) to sabotage the Lakers by leaving their name out of a report on teams interested in a washed up Blake Griffin is a genius plan to benefit...who exactly?
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His game has fallen so off, it'll be interesting to see who picks him up....
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That’s not what he said. He said that in the event that they can’t come to an agreement the Lakers would look to move him but both sides are painting a “rosy” outlook to each other so it’s far more likely they come to agreement.
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Thanks for clarifying  |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| LakerSD wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | Love how Woj keeps the Lakers out of the teams showing interest in Griffin, but Stein and others have reported Lakers interest. |
Woj doesn't have links to the FO, so he wouldn't hear about it
Lol you guys sometimes with your wojspiracies. What's the implication here? Woj is hoping Griffin will read his tweets and think "hmmm...guess the Lakers don't want me. Also, i'm not going to talk to my agent for the next few days" |
No. The implication is woj is on Ballmer’s payroll which a ton of people believe. Just poke around... |
I think the whole "Woj is on Ballmer's payroll thing" started when Woj kept insisting that Leonard would sign with the Clippers, rather than the Lakers. Lots of Lakers fans thought he was biased, which segued into them believing Ballmer was paying him.
It turned out, of course, that Woj was right. I wouldn't be surprised if Ballmer was slipping Woj information, but I doubt he was giving him money.
But then lots of Lakers fans think Ballmer is giving money to everyone they perceive is against the team. |
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| ocho wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | ocho wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | pjiddy wrote: | | LakerSD wrote: | | Love how Woj keeps the Lakers out of the teams showing interest in Griffin, but Stein and others have reported Lakers interest. |
Woj doesn't have links to the FO, so he wouldn't hear about it
Lol you guys sometimes with your wojspiracies. What's the implication here? Woj is hoping Griffin will read his tweets and think "hmmm...guess the Lakers don't want me. Also, i'm not going to talk to my agent for the next few days" |
No. The implication is woj is on Ballmer’s payroll which a ton of people believe. Just poke around... |
Even pretending that's true...so what? Why is Woj "keeping" the Lakers out of Blake talks in your eyes? Is he a gatekeeper between teams and agents? |
I think the logic is that Ballmer is paying Woj to say the Lakers aren’t interested and when the Lakers see that they’ll think “damn guess we aren’t interested” and move on. |
Next level psycho-ops by Ballmer. If only he had thought to ask Woj to tweet "The Lakers are not interested in Lebron James" and "The Lakers have decided not to trade for Anthony Davis." |
It’s a propaganda game in the media. Let’s not have a dishonest spin on this. It was talked about all last season.
This has nothing to do with “fooling” the Lakers. It’s using the media to drive agenda. Woj is getting compensated for all his pro-clippers pushing tweets.
Anyway, yeah sure I’m a conspiracy theorist. Back to trade/buyout talk. |
Any good conspiracy theory ought to at least have some hypothetical benefit to someone. Anyone. It’s the problem the flat earthers have. To whom does the insistence that the world is round benefit? The idea that Ballmer employs Woj (who, of course, risks his entire career and reputation by taking this kickback) to sabotage the Lakers by leaving their name out of a report on teams interested in a washed up Blake Griffin is a genius plan to benefit...who exactly? |
Please, we all know Steve Ballmer spends 15 hours a day on LG under a fake name cackling with delight everytime he irritates Lakers fans with one of his schemes. That is his reason for being. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| ocho wrote: | | Any good conspiracy theory ought to at least have some hypothetical benefit to someone. Anyone. It’s the problem the flat earthers have. To whom does the insistence that the world is round benefit? The idea that Ballmer employs Woj (who, of course, risks his entire career and reputation by taking this kickback) to sabotage the Lakers by leaving their name out of a report on teams interested in a washed up Blake Griffin is a genius plan to benefit...who exactly? |
Ok let me clear a few things up and then I’m off this topic:
1. This has been widely speculated since last season. I have said a million times myself that Woj would love to be the next Lee Jenkins. Is he getting paid on the side? Given all the Kawhi/West tampering and court news, I don’t think it’s far fetched that he was compensated somehow or the hint of a possible employment/partnership. We saw all the gifts go out to media members which that’s not a huge deal, but we saw Ramona flip the script and try to ride the Ballmer train.
2. If you want to go the Lee Jenkins route, it is totally beneficial to tweet out pro-clippers stuff and slight the Lakers. People use the media for agenda. This is no different, particularly if Woj would like to use that connection to get a gig with an NBA team with the richest owner.
3. This was talked about extensively last season by multiple people and specifically on LG mainly in the gap thread. I don’t know why this is suddenly causing a Kyrie-like reaction, but whatever. |
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