Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

[tehova]

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This is how the nba season should get started, unpredictable baby.


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[a_maz_ing]

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Because it's absolute BS that a trade was -nullified- that clearly wasn't even a great ADVANTAGE for the Lakers. Lost all of our depth at the 4 and a guy who logged plenty of minutes at the 5 (Pau when he rotated in for Bynum). Why is it fair that this was blocked. Would they have blocked the GSW trade? The Clippers trade? But it's the -Lakers- and in a trade that actually left the Lakers looking questionable aside from having Paul, they've nullified it. Why? Because it's the -Lakers-.

The CBA, the lockout, nothing can stop the players from leaving and going elsewhere.

Congrats. Bunch of owners whined to Stern and got what they wanted. Way to go. Learn to GM and own and team and stop drawing lines in the sand while talking about making your trades. Not anyones fault but "your own" if you didn't pull the trigger for Paul. Guess it makes a ton of sense to force Paul to stay in NO and then leave for nothing. (And the Hornets pretty damn good value if you ask me)

I'm mad about the act in general, not the fact they blocked LA. I don't think other owners/GMs should be able to tell another owner/GM they can't make a trade.
I think I'm going to just to wait till Friday at 2pm b4 listening to any more news.

[Drewski]

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I'm mad about the act in general, not the fact they blocked LA. I don't think other owners/GMs should be able to tell another owner/GM they can't make a trade.
I think I'm going to just to wait till Friday at 2pm b4 listening to any more news.

No. If its any team other than the Lakers it will go through without an issue.

[Boltman]

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Why be mad... You guys have a championship contender

I'm definitely not mad, but I feel bad for Odom & Gasol. They can't be feeling too good about all this. If anything, I know this is a business but I feel bad for them.

This is the ultimate form of c o c k blocking....I think it is funny and ridiculous at the same time.

It really is if you think about it. Like someone quoted earlier, it's like the other teams didn't want L.A. to get their shiny new toy.

I really thought this kinda deal wouldn't happen unless L.A. knew they were going to get Dwight as well (losing those two bigs). We'll just have to sit and wait to see what happens next, crazy stuff indeed.

[Basketball GURU]

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What I miss??????


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Well, LA got one gift trade

It would've been ridiculous anyway to do this after such a lockout but things looking the exact same anyway, just so happens this team is owned by the league

The whole lockout and the only news out there is the freaking lakers again... this league will remain stagnant forever as long as this is what happens

[Cuse 15]

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This bizarre day has put the NBA on the front page, and another thing, why on NBA TV, they keep showing Battier tweets, who care about Jimmy Buffett quotes

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I honestly thought people already knew that they(Hornets)would need to get approval from other teams to make trades since they were owned by the league?

[bigeastbumrush]

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Marc Stein is on now talking about will this be the case where the Owners will now weigh in/complain on every trade?

This imo is gonna have a trickle down effect. Not good for the league imo right after a lockout.

At the end of the day the Hornets are the ones that really got screwed

There's no trickle down effect.

The NBA owns the team. They have a right to say something.

[tehova]

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Phil Jackson called this on 12/29/10 about NBA owning Hornets: "When Chris says he has to be traded, how’s that going to go?" ... Jackson: "Someone’s going to have to make a very nonjudgmental decision that’s not going to irritate anyone else in the league.”
@KevinDing KEVIN DING

http://lakers.ocregister.com/2010/12/29/phil-jackson-questions-nba-owning-hornets/45858/

[bigfnjoe96]

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Because it's absolute BS that a trade was -nullified- that clearly wasn't even a great ADVANTAGE for the Lakers. Lost all of our depth at the 4 and a guy who logged plenty of minutes at the 5 (Pau when he rotated in for Bynum). Why is it fair that this was blocked. Would they have blocked the GSW trade? The Clippers trade? But it's the -Lakers- and in a trade that actually left the Lakers looking questionable aside from having Paul, they've nullified it. Why? Because it's the -Lakers-.

The CBA, the lockout, nothing can stop the players from leaving and going elsewhere.

Congrats. Bunch of owners whined to Stern and got what they wanted. Way to go. Learn to GM and own and team and stop drawing lines in the sand while talking about making your trades. Not anyones fault but "your own" if you didn't pull the trigger for Paul. Guess it makes a ton of sense to force Paul to stay in NO and then leave for nothing. (And the Hornets pretty damn good value if you ask me)

I wouldn't want that deal to go thru either if it means the Lakers only take back Paul's contract. How is that a fair deal? The lakers got rid of over 25 million in salaries & only got back what 16 mil..

Your a number's guy. enlighten me?

[a_maz_ing]

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someone asked "can the owners veto Donald Sterling"?

Idk if this is a joke or not.

stevekylerNBA Steve Kyler
RT @IraHeatBeat: League has already put an ankle bracelet on Dwight. Can't leave FLA. RT @mbeshir What if lakers still manage to get Howard?

[ScoobySnax]

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Vetoing the trade doesn't make any sense. You can trade him elsewhere, but he won't sign with them, so essentially they're prolonging the inevitable here.

[a_maz_ing]

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Well, I guess it isn't always good to be the Lakers. I doubt this would have happened to GSW. lol smh

EDIT: I'm afraid when i come back after I leave here to take a test that there will be like 20 pages added....

[NINJAK2]

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Is this the first time a trade was blocked because the league didn't want a star in a certain place?

EDIT: @BLUENGOLD I see lol

Don't know but I see why they did it. The NBA is a star driven league and if you put all the big stars on only a select few big market teams can the league as a whole hope to survive? Since the stars only wish to play in big media markets let's just have BOS, LAL,LAC,MIA,NYK,PHI,GSW, HOU, DAL,PHX,DET,NJ,WAS,ATL and gut the rest of the league. With the rest of the teams broken up those other teams would be guaranteed some talent.(Sarcasm in regards to gutting the league but it looks like small market teams have very little chance to keep the real difference makers of the NBA in this current market)