Remember when the happiness of new Portland Trail Blazers guard Jrue Holiday was a hot topic this summer?

Think back to June, right after the Blazers agreed to trade Anfernee Simons to the Boston Celtics for Holiday. In a report that cited an anonymous source, long-time Celtics reporter Steve Bulpett at Heavy.com created quite the stir when he wrote that the 35-year-old veteran was “pissed” he’d have to go to Portland. Then multiple local media members countered with their own sourced intel saying the report was inaccurate and Holiday wasn’t pissed.

It was a small, but strange sequence that caused speculation and angst among some fans about Holiday’s viability with the Blazers. That speculation only grew after the franchise didn’t host his introductory press conference immediately, inste

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