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HCP said:
I'm still confused on what was so bad with the last deal!
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Check the declining stats and increasing paychecks of the players coming to the Hornets. They are trading one of the best PGs in NBA history for a team with no hope for the future.
 
Re: Chris Paul is now Laker . . . FML

BoBoBREWSKI said:
I kinda think it makes the Lakers worse. Pau & Odom > Paul. Lakers must think Shannon Brown is ready to step it up.
CP3 seems to be getting hit more and more by injurys as his career goes on.
Steve Blake must just love this! He's now the 3rd PG.
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That deal would clear $20MM in salary for the L*kers. You don't think that money wouldn't end up in Dwight Howard's pocket? THAT's the problem.
 
HCP said:
Has anybody thought about my boy Coach Monty Williams and what he has to be thinking? Was a storm he's in the middle of! His franchise player won't be there tomorrow to open up camp. He's gonna have like 4 guys there!
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I know exactly what Monty's thinking, "It could be worse. I could be Nate McMillan dealing with my team crumbling."
 
HCP said:
I'm still confused on what was so bad with the last deal!
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NO takes on a bunch of contracts on old players. LAL clears $20MM in salary to go after D-Ho.

It's highway robbery for the Fake Show.
 
JFizzleRaider said:
Now the lakers take back more salary to shut up the tax issue and it goes through
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As long as they take back enough contracts to kill any potential deal for Howard, I'm fine with it. I don't care about Paul, I care about Dwight wearing the Piss & Purple.
 
just have la get okafor in the deal. His contract sucks and la gets a big
 
Minstrel said:
I thought this was a silly decision by Stern. This was one of the best packages the Hornets have been offered for Paul, and it really wasn't that great for the Lakers, so he certainly didn't nix it because it ruined competitive balance.

Yes, Paul is the best player in the deal right now, which is generally the key...but, first, a great ball-dominant point guard has never been the ideal running mate for Kobe Bryant, second, the Lakers lost a lot of length which was one of their strengths and, third, they lost a ton of depth. It's extremely arguable that the Lakers would have been a better team if this trade had gone through. And, of course, the elephant in the room is Paul's knees, which are on the same general path as Roy's. He may not suffer the same catastrophic result as Roy did, but it's a huge risk factor.

Stern almost certainly nixed it because of the over-emotional but under-logical pressure from the other owners. Yet, this is no way changes the way the NBA does business going forward (as some are claiming in this thread). Stern was able to nix this because the NBA "owns" the Hornets. Unless the NBA is going to start holding other NBA teams in trust, stars going to big markets won't be stopped in the future. So, ultimately, this was a meaningless attempt to grandstand by Stern.

I don't really care. I don't think the deal would have materially changed the landscape of the NBA if it had gone through and I don't think Stern's decision will have any consequences to future deal-making. It's completely inconsequential (though amusing in the furor it's generated) but still a silly thing to do.
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I agree that this move made the Lakers weaker (short-term at least).

However what Stern did was perfectly legal and appropriate. The Hornets' goal is not to finish 7th or 8th in playoff seedings and stay mediocre forever like the Atlanta Hawks or Carmelo Denver Nuggets.

Kevin Martin, Luis Scola, Lamar Odom all have huge contracts that eat up pretty much all of their salary cap. Also the NBA is trying to sell the team, they want the new owner to make these kinds of gambles, not Dell Demps.

The NBA wants to see the Hornets get young, cheap, and talented players. You can do that with the draft, cap space, or by keeping your super-star.
 
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huevonkiller said:
I agree that this move made the Lakers weaker (short-term at least).

However what Stern did was perfectly legal and appropriate. The Hornets' goal is not to finish 7th or 8th in playoff seedings and stay mediocre forever like the Atlanta Hawks or Carmelo Denver Nuggets.

Kevin Martin, Luis Scola, Lamar Odom all have huge contracts that eat up pretty much all of their salary cap. Also the NBA is trying to sell the team, they want the new owner to make these kinds of gambles, not Dell Demps.

The NBA wants to see the Hornets get young, cheap, and talented players. You can do that with the draft, cap space, or by keeping your super-star.
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Exactly.
 
Which is why I can never celebrate until I know for sure Howard is going to another team. History has proven that with the lakers, anything is possible.
 
Ken Berger @KBergCBS
Chris Paul update: Deal tweaks appear to be minor to preserve #Lakers' shot at Dwight Howard. >>>

Yeah, I'm sure Patterson and other HOU pieces (Thabeet?) would sure make the owners of the Hornets (other 27 owners) approve. Yeah, that's what the deal was missing -- some Thabeet.
 
So wait, the Lakers aren't giving any more pieces up? Why am i not surprised?
 
Wow again terrible for hornets. How in the fuck they think they can sell the team with that much guaranteed contracts?
 
we should trade "young pieces" for kevmart and scola and odom oh my
 
I am on the edge of quitting with the NBA. It just is to impossible for my beloved team to win a Championship when circumstances like this happen. Only way teams like ours (aka small market teams) can win is through the draft... And hope the player isnt a bitch like LeBron or Paul.
 
huevonkiller said:
I agree that this move made the Lakers weaker (short-term at least).

However what Stern did was perfectly legal and appropriate. The Hornets' goal is not to finish 7th or 8th in playoff seedings and stay mediocre forever like the Atlanta Hawks or Carmelo Denver Nuggets.

Kevin Martin, Luis Scola, Lamar Odom all have huge contracts that eat up pretty much all of their salary cap. Also the NBA is trying to sell the team, they want the new owner to make these kinds of gambles, not Dell Demps.

The NBA wants to see the Hornets get young, cheap, and talented players. You can do that with the draft, cap space, or by keeping your super-star.
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In the long term the Hornets would be better served by letting Paul walk as a free agent. At least they would have cap room and good lottery picks. With this deal they have overpaid veterans that will prevent them from signing any good free agents, or getting a high lottery pick. But they still arn't close to talented enough to make any noise in the playoffs.

Horrible trade for New Orleans. A blind monkey could do better, just by doing absolutely nothing.
 
KBergCBS Ken Berger
Now appears Lakers will keep Devin Ebanks, and that additional young talent to New Orleans will be coming from the Rockets, sources confirm.

Devin Ebanks, what a game changer!
 
Ken Berger @KBergCBS

Now appears Lakers will keep Devin Ebanks, and that additional young talent to New Orleans will be coming from the Rockets, sources confirm.

:lol:
 
santeesioux said:
KBergCBS Ken Berger
Now appears Lakers will keep Devin Ebanks, and that additional young talent to New Orleans will be coming from the Rockets, sources confirm.

Devin Ebanks, what a game changer!
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Well no. But it is riduculous that Lakers are about to get Paul because the Rockets are incompetent idiots. On top of that Lakers will get Howard for sure now.
 
they should just get a 4th team in to swap youngins in
 
Wonder if Howard's interest in New Jersey was feigned to try to make it look like he wasn't going to force his way to the LA Lakers on the heels of the CP3 trade.
 
Who ends up with Odom? New Orleans again? Remember how Odom took less to sign with LA? Loyalty rewarded!

I'd offer Gerald Wallace for either of Scola or Odom. Either one can substitute for LaMarcus if he needs recovery time, and then play alongside him afterwards. And if Odom came to Portland instead of New Orleans, Khloe (or whichever one he's married to) wouldn't even need to move.
 
Am I right in thinking that the Lakers keep Bynum but also get Okafor? Are they going to start alongside each other?
 
3RA1N1AC said:
they should just get a 4th team in to swap youngins in
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I think Utah should send Millsap to New Orleans and get Odom. Utah has a real logjam at PF/C, and Odom is more versatile. Plus Millsap is younger and from Louisiana. And they make almost exactly the same.
 
If the lakers get okafor, howard is the worst person to put next to okafor.
 
Would the L*kers trade Gasol for Scola, Martin and Dragic?
 
The reason I ask is, because if the answer is no, f*ck every talking head that says NO made out in this deal.

NO is better playing CP3 for a year and letting him walk, or suspending him and fining him game checks if he pouts, than taking on 50M in long-term contracts for 30+y/o's who play the same position.
 
Andrew Bogut @AndrewMBogut

Someone explain to me what this lockout achieved? Other than the BRI split I see the same player movements/transactions as the past......
 
Fez Hammersticks said:
Andrew Bogut @AndrewMBogut

Someone explain to me what this lockout achieved? Other than the BRI split I see the same player movements/transactions as the past......
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Hahaha. From a player


On a side note, I would throw pretty much everything at Milwaukee to get Bogut
 
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