NBA Execs - Expect CP3 to be traded

[EGame]

If only. I guess we will wait and see. I truely do think Paul will be traded mainly because he just is not happy there and Shinn is not going to pay to build around him. Where he gets traded to is another question.

 

[Idog1976]

If only. I guess we will wait and see. I truely do think Paul will be traded mainly because he just is not happy there and Shinn is not going to pay to build around him. Where he gets traded to is another question.

I agree with you that CP3 will leave NOH. Assuming that the league isn't completely rigged, then I think Portland has as good a chance as anyone.

 

[julius]

Although I have 0% confidence that Chris Paul will end up in a Blazers uniform (ever), who thinks if that happens, that Nate would not last the season as coach?

 

[Idog1976]

Although I have 0% confidence that Chris Paul will end up in a Blazers uniform (ever), who thinks if that happens, that Nate would not last the season as coach?

Now I really want Paul on the team. Also where so you envision Paul going?

 

[julius]

Now I really want Paul on the team. Also where so you envision Paul going?

As I said in this thread, new and improved, I say the Spurs.

Someone else will get him, it's just a gut feeling. There aren't too many teams that have options, but the Spurs could trade Parker and Blair for him (salary wise) and the Hornets could save the ending salary of Paul.

Throw in some draft picks, and money, and it's not a horrible trade.

 

[EGame]

Ermm, pretty sure we can beat Parker and Blaie as well as our own draft picks and cash...

 

[Idog1976]

Ermm, pretty sure we can beat Parker and Blaie as well as our own draft picks and cash...

I agree we have better pieces. The key is find out what Shinn's fondest desire is and making it happen. We have the pieces to get nearly any player not in the top ten and/or untouchable to dangle in front of Shinn. We need a savvy GM to get it done. PA should take Shinn out on the Octopus and find out what he wants.

 

[ironcrotch]

wow sounds like the Hornets org is comin apart,

Per Awoj

Just hung up the phone with agent Mark Bartelstein, who's irate over Hornets empty suit Hugh Weber reneging on a contract for Luther Head.

After firing Jeff Bower as GM, Weber is trying the slimy trick of 'failing' a healthy player on a physical to back out of a deal Bower made.

Weber is one more clown act running a team who doesn't know if the ball is stuffed or blown. With Shinn, he undermined Bower at every turn.

"This is just so unbelievably wrong," Bartelstein said. "This is just not the way I do business in the NBA."

 

[EGame]

Goooooooood. CP3, you are almost where you belonged ever sincethe draft of 2006.

 

[Cake]

OH MY FUCKING GOD! SAN ANTONIO IS A BIG MARKET TEAM JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!! Seriously of all the stupid memes about the NBA that Miami (shaq/wade) and San Antonio are small market teams are the stupidest. When Orlando is out of the picture ALL OF FLORIDA tunes in to watch Miami. Likewise and even more so San Antonio represents the Stars at night are big and fucking bright DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS!!! All of Texas sees San Antonio as their team the minute Houston and the Mavericks are out.

Please for the love of god never ever ever repeat this David Stern lie. I don't care about ratings, I'm talking about likely potential markets and Texas is freaking huge. If San Antonio had been more exciting they would have had uber market share. It's their brand of basketball and NOT their location that lead to small (relative) market share.

Yeah, San Antonio is a big market team.

36 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC-Asheville, NC-Anderson,SC 865,810 0.754
37 San Antonio, TX 830,000 0.723
38 West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, FL 776,080 0.676
39 Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, PA 743,420 0.647
40 Birmingham (Anniston and Tuscaloosa), AL 742,140 0.646

Right up there with Birmingham, Alabama.

So by your (frail) logic, Portland is now a big market team? After all, we've got the Seattle market all to ourselves?

 

[BlazerCaravan]

wow sounds like the Hornets org is comin apart,

Per Awoj

Thank you, New Orleans, for making Paul Allen look classy again.

 

[<-=*PdX*=->]

Yeah, San Antonio is a big market team.

36 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC-Asheville, NC-Anderson,SC 865,810 0.754
37 San Antonio, TX 830,000 0.723
38 West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, FL 776,080 0.676
39 Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, PA 743,420 0.647
40 Birmingham (Anniston and Tuscaloosa), AL 742,140 0.646

Right up there with Birmingham, Alabama.

So by your (frail) logic, Portland is now a big market team? After all, we've got the Seattle market all to ourselves?

Look at metro markets... SA is a SPREAD out city...

 

[Weav]

San Antonio is 28th in metropolitan statistical area, behind behemoths Sacramento, Portland, Orlando and Cleveland. Needless to say, it is a bussling metropolis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_metropolitan_areas

 

[Idog1976]

Yeah, San Antonio is a big market team.

36 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC-Asheville, NC-Anderson,SC 865,810 0.754
37 San Antonio, TX 830,000 0.723
38 West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, FL 776,080 0.676
39 Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, PA 743,420 0.647
40 Birmingham (Anniston and Tuscaloosa), AL 742,140 0.646

Right up there with Birmingham, Alabama.

So by your (frail) logic, Portland is now a big market team? After all, we've got the Seattle market all to ourselves?

Never been to Texas have you? It's a different country bro. Seattle couldn't give two shits about Portland. Don't mess with Texas. Stars at night. Remember the Alamo etc etc. My great grandfather a Texas Ranger was still alive when I was young and I went to Texas quite a bit. Texas Texas uber alles.

You should have gone with Miami to make your point. Someone on another site (Blazersedge IIRC) dug up Nielsen ratings showing most of Texas tuned into Spurs finals even if rest of country did not. Maybe I will look that up this weekend. Caring for my kid at the moment.

 

[LittleAlex]

He didn't just disallow Minnesota from getting Superstar, pushed to a big market Smith. They broke the rules of the CBA to try to get him there, and were punished. Of course, Stern did it so Superstar Joe Smith could go to super huge market Detroit!
And of course, evil Stern didn't allow the Heat to sign Howard, because they were over the cap. So he got stuck back with superpower Washington. But wait. On one hand, Stern is helping out Miami get superstars, but sometimes not allowing them to sign superstars? Sounds like a consistent conspiracy. Very sound.

I was responding to the fact that Stern has the authority to nix a deal if he wants to, for whatever reason.
And he does.

As far as the Heat goes, they had the money to sign Howard as long as Morning signed AFTER they got Howard. The only reason it got screwed up was Morning spilled the beans on a radio show when asked about Howard coming to the Heat.
I honestly don't know what the difference between that what Haslem did is other then it was a team that had Wade (a player the league is really pushing) as opposed to a team that had Morning (a guy they didn't market all that much).

On the off chance Portland was able to draft someone the NBA wanted to pimp then they would be able to bring other guys the NBA was marketing.
The chance of that happening in Portland is pretty small.
The same chance of that happening in LA or Boston is a great deal larger.

I said the game was rigged to the whims of a giant marketing machine.
I never said they were consistent in their actions.

 

[Blaze01]

I would not trade Oden in a package for Paul....

Any combination outside of Roy & Oden should be on the table.....

 

[inconceivable]

I would not trade Oden in a package for Paul....

Any combination outside of Roy & Oden should be on the table.....

I approve!

 

[Masbee]

As I said in this thread, new and improved, I say the Spurs.

Someone else will get him, it's just a gut feeling. There aren't too many teams that have options, but the Spurs could trade Parker and Blair for him (salary wise) and the Hornets could save the ending salary of Paul.

Throw in some draft picks, and money, and it's not a horrible trade.

I don't think you have thought this through.

You are wrong that San Antonio has the juice to deal for Paul.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I would not trade Oden in a package for Paul....

Any combination outside of Roy & Oden should be on the table.....

Paul woul dmake anyone better on our team than anyone on our team currently does. Chris Paul is a freakin superstar, and Oden has played 1 full season in 3 seasons of play. Paul and 1 of Roy, Aldridge or Oden is better than Roy, Aldridge and Oden together.