The days and hours before the trade deadline in the NBA provided us with a number of big trades that may directly affect the championship battle in the best league in the world. One of the trades, which although was not one of the biggest, but was definitely supposed to affect the current champion, has not yet been confirmed and has been delayed as of this moment due to a failure in medical tests.
Remember, as part of a trade involving four teams, Gary Payton II was supposed to return from Portland to Golden State, which sent James Wiseman to Detroit, which in return gave Sadiq Bey, who was sent to Atlanta.
The trade has not yet been made because in the medical tests conducted by the Warriors for Peyton it was found that he suffers from problems in the core muscles and will have to sit out between two and three months, that is until the end of the regular season. One of the goals of the champion in the trade was to bring another guard as a backup for the injured Steph Curry, but it seems that this will no longer happen this season.
In any case, the league set a deadline for the Warriors until today to complete the deal or cancel it. Yesterday, the parties discussed other options such as correcting the trade and changing it, but the number of parties involved complicates the matter.
Peyton, according to US reports, played with pain in Portland. The Trailblazers’ staff reportedly pushed him to play that way using shots. That information, it said, was not conveyed to the Warriors during the negotiation process.