A messy, messy weekend for the Portland Trail Blazers ended where it was always going to: With Portland finalizing a four-team trade that sent Gary Payton II to the Golden State Warriors. But sheesh was it a long, stupid road to get there. Let's run through the timeline.

Of course this ended the way it did. It was always going to end this way. But the path there exposed the bizarre world of NBA news brokers and the petty beef between two franchises. No one looks good at the end of this one. Except for you, dear listener, you look great.

Okay how about some positivity to end the show: The Blazers are set up to make huge moves this offseason and nothing that happened at the at the trade deadline hurt that opportunity.

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