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  • bigeastbumrush
    My Momma's Son
    • Feb 2003
    • 19245

    #2026
    Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

    Originally posted by WTF
    THere was no CBA in place until early AM this morning, so tampering may not even be feasible.
    Explain this for me^.

    He's still under contract. Coaches/owners/etc aren't allowed to talk to players. And they contacted a player who wasn't even their own.

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    • LionsFanNJ
      All Star
      • Apr 2006
      • 9464

      #2027
      Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

      Knowing the Nets, we're all in for Nene and Howard will be somewhere else.
      HELLO BROOKYLN.
      All Black Everything

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      • DiceMan
        NBA All Life Team
        • Mar 2004
        • 2049

        #2028
        Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

        Cowherd just reported Chandler to NY is done.
        PSN: DoubleLGetsBusy
        NY Knicks
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        NY Yankees
        4 Life.....

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        • jeebs9
          Fear is the Unknown
          • Oct 2008
          • 47562

          #2029
          Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

          Originally posted by DiceMan
          Cowherd just reported Chandler to NY is done.
          As in done like the CP3 trade or done as in he has signed with the Knicks?
          Hands Down....Man Down - 2k9 memories
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IHP_5GUBQo

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          • ProfessaPackMan
            Bamma
            • Mar 2008
            • 63852

            #2030
            Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

            From The Russian:

            Who are sources? They pay ultimate price. MT @Chris_Broussard Howard met with NJ owner Mikhail Prokhorov Thurs night in Miami, sources say.
            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.

            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.
            #RespectTheCulture

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            • ProfessaPackMan
              Bamma
              • Mar 2008
              • 63852

              #2031
              Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

              Mikhail Prokhorov
              In Russia when there is this “tampering”, someone end up missing.
              123456loko
              #RespectTheCulture

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              • aholbert32
                (aka Alberto)
                • Jul 2002
                • 33106

                #2032
                Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

                Originally posted by ProfessaPackMan
                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.

                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.
                A meeting w/ Prokorov and Howard is proof enough. This was before the CBA was ratified.

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                • WTF
                  MVP
                  • Aug 2002
                  • 20274

                  #2033
                  Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

                  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
                  #DropMeAFollow

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                  • bigeastbumrush
                    My Momma's Son
                    • Feb 2003
                    • 19245

                    #2034
                    Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

                    Originally posted by ProfessaPackMan
                    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.

                    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.
                    You do realize that is not Mikhail Prokhorov's twitter account right?

                    It's a fake. I doubt he even has one. I'm surprised the guy didn't tweet, "I must break you."

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                    • WTF
                      MVP
                      • Aug 2002
                      • 20274

                      #2035
                      Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

                      Originally posted by bigeastbumrush
                      Explain this for me^.

                      He's still under contract. Coaches/owners/etc aren't allowed to talk to players. And they contacted a player who wasn't even their own.
                      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
                      #DropMeAFollow

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                      • The 24th Letter
                        ERA
                        • Oct 2007
                        • 39373

                        #2036
                        "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 fan

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                        • ProfessaPackMan
                          Bamma
                          • Mar 2008
                          • 63852

                          #2037
                          Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

                          Originally posted by aholbert32
                          A meeting w/ Prokorov and Howard is proof enough. This was before the CBA was ratified.
                          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
                          #RespectTheCulture

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                          • ProfessaPackMan
                            Bamma
                            • Mar 2008
                            • 63852

                            #2038
                            Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)



                            This look like a man you want to make false accusations to?
                            #RespectTheCulture

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                            • ProfessaPackMan
                              Bamma
                              • Mar 2008
                              • 63852

                              #2039
                              Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

                              "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.
                              Count Mark Cuban among the NBA owners who agrees with commissioner David Stern's decision to veto a three-team trade that would have landed Chris Paul with the Los Angeles Lakers.
                              #RespectTheCulture

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                              • aholbert32
                                (aka Alberto)
                                • Jul 2002
                                • 33106

                                #2040
                                Re: Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

                                Originally posted by ProfessaPackMan
                                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
                                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.

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