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Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)
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Dude, this isn't NBA 2K12. Bynum, Artest and (insert trash or leftovers) isn't enough to get Howard. Other teams can offer better players and picks for his services. Every team isn't the '77 Bucks or '67 76ers and just eager to gift wrap y'all another HOF center. They're better off letting him walk then getting ****ed over by the Lakers again. Especially for a guy that'll never reach Dwight's level of play and has two bum knees.
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Magic are going to be faced with the same dillemma. Let Dwight walk or trade him for best value available. Dwight has free will to his extension. No one is giving up more than that Bynum package without a guarantee from Dwight he will resign. Only team willing to take that risk would likely be the Nets, but I would still prefer Bynum over Brook (but that discussion is not for here).Follow me on Twitter@DrewGarrisonSBNComment
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*facepalm*
I wish I had a Deebo gif when him & Smokey were about to rob Stanley..."Stop being a bitch and come on!"Originally posted by J. ColeFool me one time that's shame on you. Fool me twice can't put the blame on you. Fool me three times, **** the peace sign, load the chopper let it rain on you.
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NBA commissioner David Stern killed the New Orleans Hornets’ trade of Chris Paul after several owners complained about the league-owned team dealing the All-Star point guard to the Los Angeles Lakers, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Some owners pushed Stern to nullify the trade and that the Hornets be made to keep Paul on the roster for the foreseeable future, sources said. A chorus of owners were irate with the belief that the five-month lockout had happened largely to stop big-market teams from leveraging small-market teams for star players pending free agency.
The trade between the Lakers, Hornets and Houston Rockets had been consummated late Thursday afternoon, about the same time the league’s owners and players were completing their vote to ratify the new collective bargaining agreement – an agreement that Stern had repeatedly said would help restore the NBA’s competitive balance. League owners had watched last season as some of the game’s biggest stars left for larger markets. LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat, and Carmelo Anthony forced the Denver Nuggets to trade him to the New York Knicks.
The owners half-pushed this, and Stern took it the rest of the way,” a league source told Yahoo! Sports. “In the end, David didn’t like that the players were dictating where they wanted to go, like Carmelo had, and he wasn’t going to let Chris Paul dictate where he wanted to go.”
Before Stern intervened, the Lakers had reached an agreement to acquire Paul in a deal that would have cost them Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. Under terms of the deal, the Lakers would have sent Gasol to the Rockets. The Hornets would have received Odom, Rockets guards Kevin Martin and Goran Dragic and forward Luis Scola, league sources said.
Houston had also agreed to send a 2012 first-round pick – previously obtained from the Knicks – to New Orleans as part of the package, a source said.
Demps had informed two of the other finalists for Paul on Thursday evening that he had a deal in place for Paul to go the Lakers, front-office sources said. All the players involved in the trade have now been told to report to their teams for the start of training camp on Friday.
Hornets general manager Dell Demps is “disconsolate” over the heavy-handed move from the commissioner’s office, a source told Y! Sports. Demps considered resigning his job on Thursday, league sources said, and had to be talked out of it. The Hornets had scored a terrific deal for Paul, a trade that was lauded by some of Demps’ peers throughout the league. Officials involved in the trade talks said the league office was consulted throughout the negotiations, and there was never an indication Demps didn’t have the power to make a deal. In fact, several teams negotiating with New Orleans to get Paul asked the league office, and were told Demps had full authority to execute a trade.
Stern listened to enraged owners on Thursday insist this trade went against the entire reason the owners pushed for the lockout, that nothing had changed, and yet it was Stern who made the extraordinary decision to cancel the deal. Demps tried to talk him out of it, league officials said, but Stern was absolute in his desire to kill the trade.
Paul had listed the Lakers as one of his preferred destinations, and it became a more clear choice for him on Thursday after the New York Knicks moved to the brink of completing a four-year, $58 million contract for free-agent center Tyson Chandler. The Knicks lost the salary-cap space they would’ve needed to sign Paul this summer, and the Lakers had been pushing hard to close a deal for Paul with Houston and New Orleans.
As one rival executive with strong ties to the league office said, “Stern cared about two things: Selling that franchise for the best possible price; and showing the players that they weren’t going to dictate where teams could trade them. But now, there’s no way that the league can allow Chris Paul to be traded at all, otherwise Stern is basically deciding where one of the top players in the league is going versus having any fair process.”
Officials from New Orleans, Houston and Los Angeles were stunned Thursday night. The killed trade had ripple affects everywhere in free agency and potential trades, and literally pushed the market into paralysis on the even of training camps opening up.
“We were all told by the league he was a trade-able player, and now they’re saying that Dell doesn’t have the authority to make the trade?” said an NBA executive who had periodic talks with New Orleans throughout the process. “Now, they’re saying that Dell is an idiot, that he can’t do it his job. [Expletive] this whole thing. David’s drunk on power, and he doesn’t give a [expletive] about the players, and he doesn’t give a [expletive] about the hundreds of hours the teams put into make that deal.
“How do the Lakers explain this to Odom? How does Houston deal with the guys it just tried to trade? Scola and Martin are going to be pissed at them, and who knows how long that takes to get over? Explain to me how the league kills this Pau Gasol deal, but allows Kwame Brown for Pau Gasol?
“To me, this makes the league feel like it’s rigged, that Stern just does whatever Stern wants to do. He’s messed up the competitive balance of this league a lot worse by killing the deal, because you’ve completely destroyed the planning that New Orleans, Houston did and left them in shambles over this. I’ve never been so discouraged about this league, never so down.
“I mean, come on: Chris Paul is leaving New Orleans in 66 games. He’s gone. And what’s Dell Demps, and that franchise, going to have to show for it?”#RespectTheCultureComment
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I've never seen such a bizarre situation.
But, essentially, it's gonna be awkward for Odom and Gasol when they show up tomorrow.. and we all know CP3 has refused to report to NOH. ****'s gonna be interesting.
Phil Jackson definitely called it when he said it was bad for the NBA to own the Hornets.Comment
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Everyone saying the lakers would be better off with Dwight is forgetting that the lakers no longer run a triangle offense and NEED a point guard to run the offense. I agree their front court made them great, but that was under Phil Jackson. Even if Dwight gets traded to LA, who is going to run the offense? D fish?! A different coach means a different style, which caters to different players which would have made Paul a great fit. I think Dwight and Paul would both be equally successful in LA and I don't put Dwight above Cp3 as far as who would be a better pick up for LA. I just think its a shame that the league got involved in the trade, which will leave NO worse off in the long run. Call Cp3 a premadonna all you want but his play on the court provides him with the voice to SOMEWHAT dictate where he goes, so long as his team gets something in return. But now NO will end up like Cleveland. Hope they don't burn his jersey.Comment
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Yeah just like Lamar Odom and Pau Gasol aren't assets. LoL.
Magic are going to be faced with the same dillemma. Let Dwight walk or trade him for best value available. Dwight has free will to his extension. No one is giving up more than that Bynum package without a guarantee from Dwight he will resign. Only team willing to take that risk would likely be the Nets, but I would still prefer Bynum over Brook (but that discussion is not for here).Comment
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LOL @ Odom and Pau catching feelings....
You know Lamar doesn't want to move too far away from Khloe...Comment
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Losing Paul without any compensation would be devastating for the Hornets. Other than flat out desperate free agents, who in the world wants to play there? It's a great city, but the organization is in a bad spot.Originally posted by J. ColeFool me one time that's shame on you. Fool me twice can't put the blame on you. Fool me three times, **** the peace sign, load the chopper let it rain on you.
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I know one thing....by the end of tomorrow, I better have heard something about the Nets signing one of these FAs out here because I'll be damned if I'm going to have another one of these again:
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Cool, so now we're going to ignore the post presence the Grizz had last year right? We're going to ignore how they were a bad matchup for the Spurs right? We're going to ignore that Zach Randolph is on that not a superstar, but kinda near it level right?
How were the Hornets gonna roll into the Western Conference playoffs like the Grizz? Cause that got that monster asset LO? Dude was just crying because he got traded but he was about to roll to New Orleans and ball the Hornets to the second round flanked by Louis Scola and Emeka? Cool story.Comment
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