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Knowing the Nets, we're all in for Nene and Howard will be somewhere else.HELLO BROOKYLN.
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Cowherd just reported Chandler to NY is done.PSN: DoubleLGetsBusy
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From The Russian:
And I know one thing, after all the tampering that's gone on in the league from Miami and Pat Riley's mess prior to the mWo forming to Shaq in LA and even Melo to Denver, I better not hear **** from the League about this.Who are sources? They pay ultimate price. MT @Chris_Broussard Howard met with NJ owner Mikhail Prokhorov Thurs night in Miami, sources say.
If they couldn't prove that there was tampering involved in those deals, I'd LOVE to see how they can prove it with this.#RespectTheCultureComment
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123456lokoMikhail Prokhorov
In Russia when there is this “tampering”, someone end up missing.#RespectTheCultureComment
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The Russian is a reason that I like the Nets. Dude is hilarious. Have to love an owner like that.
I want to see them make a bid for Nick Young's services.Twitter - WTF_OS
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Meh reported on SC, there is no CBA, may not be possible to go after them for tampering. Nobody is under contract while there is not CBA, there is no players union.
Then again, Teams were to have no contact with players while the CBA junk was going on, so who knows.Twitter - WTF_OS
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"Who are sources? They pay ultimate price" is the greatest thing ever said by an owner....
NJ fan here
EDIT: never mind, fake, still Spurs fanComment
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And there's no proof that even took place, so again where is this proof at? Unless one of them admits it, the league can't prove it just like couldn't prove the Knicks tampered with Melo and Pat Riley didn't tamper with Lebron.
And bigeast, yeah I know it's a fake account....some of the tweets are still hilarious though lol#RespectTheCultureComment
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This look like a man you want to make false accusations to?#RespectTheCultureComment
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"The message is we went through this lockout for a reason," Cuban said Friday on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM's Ben and Skin Show. "Again, I'm not speaking for Stern. He's not telling me his thought process. I'm just telling you my perspective, having gone through all this. There's a reason that we went through this lockout, and one of the reasons is to give small-market teams the ability to keep their stars and the ability to compete."
Stern cited "basketball reasons" for denying the proposed trade that would have sent Paul to the Lakers, Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets and given the Hornets three accomplished, starter-caliber players in Kevin Martin, Luis Scola and Lamar Odom as well as point guard Goran Dragic and a 2012 first-round pick that Houston had acquired from the New York Knicks.
However, Cuban's rationale for blocking the trade is all about business.
"We just had a lockout, and one of the goals of the lockout was to say that small-market teams now have a chance to keep their players, and the rules were designed to give them that opportunity," Cuban said. "So to all of a sudden have a league-owned team trade their best player, particularly after having gone out and sold a ton of tickets in that market, that's not the kind of signal you want to send.
"Then, part two of that is all the rules of what you can and can't do under the new CBA weren't finalized until yesterday, so how do you really make a strategic decision until you know all the rules?"
Cuban has been trying for years to trade for Paul, the four-time All-Star point guard who dominated the Mavericks during the first round of the 2008 playoffs. However, he said he would have understood the league's decision to deny the trade even if the Mavericks would have agreed to a deal to get Paul.
"I mean, obviously, I wouldn't have been happy, but I would have understood because it was a conversation a lot of owners had long before the Laker deal was consummated," Cuban said. "It was like, 'Look, sure, I'd love him. Give him to me in a heartbeat.' But the whole idea of the lockout was to prevent stuff like that.
"Players will always have the right to choose what they want to do as a free agent, but the players agreed to rules that said, 'You know what? Let's give the home team, the incumbent team an extra advantage.' And that's how the rules were designed. I think they're going to work."
Nevertheless, Cuban admitted voting against the collective bargaining agreement. He hoped for a system that would allow the Mavericks to keep their championship team largely intact while maintaining some flexibility to make roster upgrades, as they'd done in the past.#RespectTheCultureComment
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Lets play this out. Lets say the NBA investigates. Lets say that Prokorov/Howard both deny. Lets say there is a photo, video, or multiple eyewitness accounts.... anything that shows the two of them together. Do you know how big the fine will be for Prokorov? Huge. I would say probably as big as the fine/loss of draft picks that the TWolves got for the Joe Smith debacle.
Its all speculation right now. Lets hope for your sake its untrue.Comment
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