Chris Paul Thread!

[jonathanlambert33]

Don't get mad at the NBA that the Hornets are fucked up in the first place. You're ignoring the biggest factor in all of this-- it only happened because the Hornets are owned by the NBA.

Like I've already stated, the owners agreed to letting the Hornets function just like a normal franchise when the league bought the team. They set a budget, and the Hornets aren't even close to reaching that number. There is NO reason this trade should have been vetoed, the NBA is a fucking disgrace.

 

[cruzg24]

Chris Paul here we come!!! Cp3 prolly secretly said he didnt want to go to the Lakers and now he wont get traded this year so he can come to NYC. This is a good day in NBA history and the sanctity of the league. lol

 

[jonathanlambert33]

TommyBeer:

I suspect a slightly revised version of the CP3 trade will be completed (and allowed) real soon... Can't put toothpaste back in the tube

Don't know who the guy is but I need some good news so I'll just go ahead and believe this to be the case.

 

[bestkeptsecret13]

Some bullshit went down tonight...

All I've got to say.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

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.

This is just unbelievable, seriously fuck Stern. I wouldn't give a rats ass if the dude fell off a bridge and was never found. POS.

 

[elcheato]

Because he voided a basketball trade?

 

[elcheato]

Listening to Kurt Rabis talk on ESPN about how the deal would have been good for the Lakers because they need a PG in Mike Brown's system. Anyone wanna let me know what "system" he is apparently running?

 

[jonathanlambert33]

“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."

 

[The Guid]

Hours it took to make that deal, huh? Why is it such a big suprise, then, to one of the "key pieces" of that trade? RE: Lamar Odom

 

[Giantmetfan07]

I just read that too. Best rant I have EVER seen. Preach baby, preach!

 

[Mexi]

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Chris Paul here we come!!! Cp3 prolly secretly said he didnt want to go to the Lakers and now he wont get traded this year so he can come to NYC. This is a good day in NBA history and the sanctity of the league. lol

Tyson Chandler would kind of be blocking that....

 

[elcheato]

Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert called the New Orleans Hornets’ proposed trade of Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers a “travesty,” and urged NBA commissioner David Stern to put the deal to vote of the league’s 29 owners in an email obtained by Yahoo! Sports. Gilbert sent the email to Stern, deputy commissioner Adam Silver and a handful of Gilbert’s ownership peers on Thursday.
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The following is the email in its entirety:

Commissioner,

It would be a travesty to allow the Lakers to acquire Chris Paul in the apparent trade being discussed.

This trade should go to a vote of the 29 owners of the Hornets.

Over the next three seasons this deal would save the Lakers approximately $20 million in salaries and approximately $21 million in luxury taxes. That $21 million goes to non-taxpaying teams and to fund revenue sharing.

I cannot remember ever seeing a trade where a team got by far the best player in the trade and saved over $40 million in the process. And it doesn’t appear that they would give up any draft picks, which might allow to later make a trade for Dwight Howard. (They would also get a large trade exception that would help them improve their team and/or eventually trade for Howard.) When the Lakers got Pau Gasol (at the time considered an extremely lopsided trade) they took on tens of millions in additional salary and luxury tax and they gave up a number of prospects (one in Marc Gasol who may become a max-salary player).

I just don’t see how we can allow this trade to happen.

I know the vast majority of owners feel the same way that I do.

When will we just change the name of 25 of the 30 teams to the Washington Generals?

Please advise….

Dan G.

Stay strong, my man.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Coming from an Owner who's team knew his star could potentially leave, and got nothing in return.

 

[Hurricane Season]

Did he send the email in comic sans again?

 

[elcheato]

Coming from an Owner who's team knew his star could potentially leave, and got nothing in return.

Trading away a title opportunity in a city that hasn't won anything in 40 years definitley would have gone over well with the fans.

 

[The Guid]

Don't really know how the NBA cap works but can you sign guys to like one year max contracts to reach the cap floor?

 

[CameronCrazy06]

I can't decide what's funnier, the video Mexi just posted or the Dan Gilbert letter II.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Trading away a title opportunity in a city that hasn't won anything in 40 years definitley would have gone over well with the fans.

and instead they all burned Jerseys in the street....

 

[Mexi]

son of a bitch