b/c this league fucking sucks! same teams every year going 60-20 and same teams every year going 20-60 its a joke
im glad he stopped it....maybe the fans will completely tune out....i WISH they had cancelled the whole season....im not watching any nba this year....maybe on xmas day b/c thats all thats on tv but i refuse to watch this garbage product
im glad he stopped it....maybe the fans will completely tune out....i WISH they had cancelled the whole season....im not watching any nba this year....maybe on xmas day b/c thats all thats on tv but i refuse to watch this garbage product
NBA commissioner David Stern has 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 demand the trade be nullified, and 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 deal is off,” a source involved in the talks told Y! Sports. “It’s dead.”
Hornets general manager Dell Demps is “disconsolate” over this stunning, heavy-handed move from the commissioner’s office, a source told Y! Sports.
All the players involved in the trade have been told to report to their teams for the start of training camp on Friday.
Before Stern intervened, the Lakers had reached an agreement to acquire Paul in a three-team trade 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.
Hornets general manager Dell 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.
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.
The Lakers could turn their attention toward using center Andrew Bynum as a trading chip to make a play for Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard.
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Some owners pushed Stern to demand the trade be nullified, and 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 deal is off,” a source involved in the talks told Y! Sports. “It’s dead.”
Hornets general manager Dell Demps is “disconsolate” over this stunning, heavy-handed move from the commissioner’s office, a source told Y! Sports.
All the players involved in the trade have been told to report to their teams for the start of training camp on Friday.
Before Stern intervened, the Lakers had reached an agreement to acquire Paul in a three-team trade 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.
Hornets general manager Dell 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.
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.
The Lakers could turn their attention toward using center Andrew Bynum as a trading chip to make a play for Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard.
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He is one of the most arrogant people I've ever heard through the years.
He thinks he's God.
Did anyone else hear him on Jim Rome a couple of months ago?
He's really a jerk.
hornets were getting the best end of the trade. scola, martin, goran, and a 1st round pick for paul who is gone at the end of this year is stealing. paul will only sign on with 2-3 teams who happen to be big market historical power houses, what the fuck are the hornets suppose to do? keep him for another year, go sub .500ish and get nothing for him? oh yea the they get odom too. stern is a fucking moron. only team getting raped here is houston
Reality is NY is now a desirable team to play for again & the Nets will probably be as well once they move to Brooklyn. Paul's list included NY so it isn't like Seymour is off base. Recently when asked, Carmelo said even if a smaller market team offered him a lot more money (Milwaukee was used as an example), he said he still would have chose NY.
