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Billups, Smith reason Cheeks fired? 

Post#1 » by haulerch » Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:53 pm

Found this to be pretty interesting. Josh has the organization's ear. I was really shocked to see that Billups went with Josh.


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Post#2 » by princeofpalace » Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:02 am

haulerch wrote:Found this to be pretty interesting. Josh has the organization's ear. I was really shocked to see that Billups went with Josh.


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Post#3 » by ComboGuardCity » Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:18 am

Vecsey has burned so many bridges, the only sources he has are in his head.
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Post#4 » by gusman » Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:22 am

Can you believe that he is 70???!!!
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Post#5 » by Clarity » Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:50 am

Peter Vescey? Lol c'mon
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Post#6 » by MrBigShot » Sun Feb 23, 2014 1:05 am

I refuse to believe that Chauncey would pull something like that. Just the media spreading bs.
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Post#7 » by Q00 » Sun Feb 23, 2014 1:13 am

Vecsey's sources just said three days ago that Love would be traded by Thursday, and he wasn't, so...
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Post#8 » by kurtis48239 » Sun Feb 23, 2014 2:03 am

oooooooooooo nasty!
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Post#9 » by DTP » Sun Feb 23, 2014 2:09 am

If this was true, I think Monroe would have been traded and rumors of shopping Josh wouldn't have been around.
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Post#10 » by ChainLink » Sun Feb 23, 2014 2:26 am

MrBigShot wrote:I refuse to believe that Chauncey would pull something like that. Just the media spreading bs.


I agree. I can see Smith maybe doing this but Billups wouldn't.
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Post#11 » by Q00 » Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:01 am

DTP wrote:If this was true, I think Monroe would have been traded and rumors of shopping Josh wouldn't have been around.


This. Also it can't be true because that would mean Joe was in charge of the decision making on Cheeks, and everything that's been reported says it was Gores who made the call and Joe was arguing against it.
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Post#12 » by ImHeisenberg » Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:06 am

I'll just file this rumor under "don't know, don't care" and be done with it.
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Post#13 » by AngryPistonsGuy » Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:48 pm

princeofpalace wrote:
haulerch wrote:Found this to be pretty interesting. Josh has the organization's ear. I was really shocked to see that Billups went with Josh.


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Totally agree. Peter Vecsey has made a career of making up rumors and putting words in peoples mouths. The drama Minnesota is going through right now because of him is evident of that. He's a scumbag.
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Re: Billups, Smith reason Cheeks fired? 

Post#14 » by mercury » Mon Feb 24, 2014 1:27 am

In the 80's & early 90s' Vecsey was the scoop guy... he did have connections in the NY league office... what transpired was he burned bridges and lost trust... NY media deadlines made him become like Sam Smith... he went from the penthouse to the outhouse... it's still likely that he gets a bone tossed his way occasionally... certainly reasonable that someone threw Mo under the bus with good reason.

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