CHRIS PAUL TO THE LAKERS!!!

[boomets]

Update: 11:11 PM ET


Adrian Wojnarowski: League source on killed deal: "...(Stern) wasn't going to let Chris Paul dictate where he wanted to go." Twitter


This trade wasnt that amazing for the lakers..
The hornets were getting Martin, Scola, and Odom and a first round pick!
Some solid players.

 

[boomets]

Update: 11:11 PM ET


Adrian Wojnarowski: League source on killed deal: "...(Stern) wasn't going to let Chris Paul dictate where he wanted to go." Twitter


This trade wasnt that amazing for the lakers..
The hornets were getting Martin, Scola, and Odom and a first round pick!
Some solid players.

 

[boomets]

Update: 11:11 PM ET


Adrian Wojnarowski: League source on killed deal: "...(Stern) wasn't going to let Chris Paul dictate where he wanted to go." Twitter


This trade wasnt that amazing for the lakers..
The hornets were getting Martin, Scola, and Odom and a first round pick!
Some solid players.

 

[jimmyjam1973]

what a CROCK!!!! So if this doesn't happen and he walks at the end of the season....they get NOTHING and look REALLY dumb.

 

[Tomlinson21RB]

Dan Gilbert's letter to Stern

Commissioner,

It would be a travesty to allow the Lakers to acquire Chris Paul in the apparent trade being discussed.

This trade should go to a vote of the 29 owners of the Hornets.

Over the next three seasons this deal would save the Lakers approximately $20 million in salaries and approximately $21 million in luxury taxes. That $21 million goes to non-taxpaying teams and to fund revenue sharing.

I cannot remember ever seeing a trade where a team got by far the best player in the trade and saved over $40 million in the process. And it doesn’t appear that they would give up any draft picks, which might allow to later make a trade for Dwight Howard (They would also get a large trade exception that would help them improve their team and/or eventually trade for Howard.) When the Lakers got Pau Gasol (at the time considered an extremely lopsided trade) they took on tens of millions in additional salary and luxury tax and they gave up a number of prospects (one in Marc Gasol who may become a max-salary player).

I just don’t see how we can allow this trade to happen.

I know the vast majority of owners feel the same way that I do.

When will we just change the name of 25 of the 30 teams to the Washington Generals?

Please advise….
Dan G.

 

[poppudaimadochi]

On the other hand, he owns the team in a sense; so he won't let a given player handcuff the team the way Melo did last year.

And sure, NO would get good players, but in terms of marketability, no one equivalent to CP3 (still thinking with the survival of small-market teams in mind). I agree though that come free agency, they would be stuck with nothing though, effectively killing the franchise...

 

[Tomlinson21RB]

 

[TiajuanaDonkey]

Dan Gilbert and David Stern a couple of hoes! That is all

 

[Nick1190]

lmao thats hilarious.

 

[ljw29]

Stern rejects a second trade to LA for Paul this time the Clippers

 

[Tomlinson21RB]

Stern rejects a second trade to LA for Paul this time the Clippers

I guess he kind of has to at this point, but the LAC offer was too much to give up for Paul. I don't see how they're going to beat that package.

Eric Gordon
Chris Kaman
Al-Farouq Aminu
Minnesota's unprotected first round pick (probably will be top 5)

 

[ljw29]

Stern rejects a second trade to LA for Paul this time the Clippers

I guess he kind of has to at this point, but the LAC offer was too much to give up for Paul. I don't see how they're going to beat that package.

Eric Gordon
Chris Kaman
Al-Farouq Aminu
Minnesota's unprotected first round pick (probably will be top 5)

you forgot Eric Bledsoe

 

[Huffamaniac]

I read it was the Clippers who pulled out of the trade as they thought they were giving up to much

Stern rejects a second trade to LA for Paul this time the Clippers

 

[boomets]

Stern rejects a second trade to LA for Paul this time the Clippers

I guess he kind of has to at this point, but the LAC offer was too much to give up for Paul. I don't see how they're going to beat that package.

Eric Gordon
Chris Kaman
Al-Farouq Aminu
Minnesota's unprotected first round pick (probably will be top 5)

Clippers werent gonna give Gordon and the pick.
They said choose one with Bledsoe.