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We're going to be dealing with the aftermath of the day Mueller trade for years to come.

Years.

The amount of impact this had on the full league is wild.

We can't even see it yet.

But in the immediate aftermath, we've got bad blood, people. We have got a straight

up cold war in the media between Dame and the Blazers. It was no love lost when Dame put out

his letter to Portland and Joe Cronin was not in it. It was not a thank you to Joe because there have been two detailed

breakdowns of the trade and they were published within 24 hours of each other. The first one was

Chris Haynes that included a lot of details directly from Dame and his agent, Aaron Goodwin.

And then we got another one from Woge, which could

have been written with full access to Joe Cronin's Moleskin notebook and colored markers. And I'm

dead ass serious because that was in the story. Two sides of the same story, how the Dame trade

happened, painting completely different narratives.

Let's start with what Chris Haynes dropped and Dame story.

Chris Haynes, inside the messy divorce between Dame Lillard and the Portland Trailblazers,

whoo, that headline is just right there.

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