J.R. Smith has literally been shanghaied away for the foreshortened 2011-2012 NBA season: rolling ILH sandbox thread

NEWS FLASH

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA -- The Hornets have started to inform teams that they're sending Chris Paul to the Lakers for Bynum and Odom, league sources tell Y! Sports.

wow... really feel like the lakers got off pretty easy there

odom is done in like 3 years and bynum is a massive wildcard

has kobe ever played w/ an actual PG? how is this going to work?

but lakers giving up a lot of size, and odom's been good for them. dunno.

So who wants Rondo? All signs point to butthurt in Boston.

i mean, if they can trade gasol for howard, okay, but otherwise . . .

welp

If they traded Gasol for Howard, who plays PF?

same thing as heat, they'd be a Big 3 with lots of minimum contract guys around them.

and they'd hope that, to chase a championship, some quality players would go to LA for less money.

if the lakers get Paul and Howard I quit

like what's a guy supposed to do

Correction: The proposed deal to the Lakers is Chris Paul for Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, source says.

ah! holding bynum for howard. WOW.

still, would those pieces fit together that well? great defense, i guess, but very susceptible to injury (CP3) and decline (KobE)

ah! holding bynum for howard. WOW.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, December 8, 2011 5:07 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

still not sure if this is gonna happen... the magic would REALLY have to like andrew bynum, or get zero offers from other teams. bcuz w/ odom to NO they basically have nothing left to trade except an oft-injured, possibly psychotic center and a bunch of role players nobody would want. we'll see.

that's true.

that...can't actually be real can it

pau was a giant zero in the playoffs last year and odom is sort of good but not really a building piece

btw way under the radar i LOVE the butler-to-clips move, clips basically had an empty pair of shoes at small forward last year so tough juice is a big upgrade even if his numbers aren't big

i guess LAL have to be the western conference favorite, tho, since dallas is losing chandler. maybe OKC.

i think it's still far more likely that they get the godfather offer from the bulls

also wtf is going on the nba is fucking crazy again yay!

― ~occubarn~ (clay), Thursday, December 8, 2011 10:46 PM

srsly its like http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv57uojPhv1qfjjglo3_250.gif all of a sudden

btw way under the radar i LOVE the butler-to-clips move, clips basically had an empty pair of shoes at small forward last year so tough juice is a big upgrade even if his numbers aren't big

― concussion section, Thursday, December 8, 2011 5:11 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

giving a 31 year old who has played 56 games over the past two seasons a 3 yr / 24 m deal is o_O

yeah feel like the clips either dont have faith in aminu or care more about using him as a trade piece for god knows what.

i def don't think aminu is ready to start in the nba

i think it's still far more likely that they get the godfather (pizza) offer from the bulls

this made me think the bulls were going to trade herman cain to orlando

If rest of deal goes through as proposed, sources tell ESPN that HOU would send Kevin Martin, Luis Scola and Goran Dragic to N.O. for Gasol

This deal keeps morphing.

so houston gets gasol and . . . keeps trying to get nene or dalembert?

that makes a lot more sense

that being the three way deal

so they'd have money for gasol and dalembert/nene, i guess.

trying to figure out if houston is dropping out of the race for one of those two centers.

overall that's a pretty good if totally weird deal for NO

yeah they need a center -- also might have to replace martin w/ someone

not that anybody in the world gives two shits about the hornets but

looking out for the heat. since, as you know, our big center acquisition is . . . oh never mind.

overall that's a pretty good if totally weird deal for NO

― ~occubarn~ (clay), Thursday, December 8, 2011 5:26 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

yeah i mean, not much is happening for the future, but nothing ever was. martin, scola, odom are three good pieces

i mean

jarret jack
kevin martin
trevor ariza
louis scola
emeka okafor

+ odom

you could have worse teams

that's not a playoff team most likely but it's not the worst team in the world

RT @johnhollinger Hornets would need to renounce David West to make this trade work as reported.

well if they were picking up two power forwards in the deal, they probably would

Ha look at that line-up, it's a team of trade throw-ins! They're just completely being used as a fence for actual teams!

scola is pretty awesome

i keep confusing him with the local (and outstanding) miami circuit court judge who just got elevated to the third district court of appeals bench.

i picture him in his judicial robe, lobbing a pass to odom.

houston still has tons of cap room -- gasol's salary is 19m, but they're unloading 22m b/w scola and martin

oh yeah <3 scola just saying the league should have started running a team for the purpose of trade facilitation ages ago

houston's roster is for real so hilarious, i can never get over it

they have jonny flynn, hasheem thabeet and jordan hill on the same team!!!

and terrence williams!

bah. i want nene or dalembert on the heat. stop chasing them, houston rockets!

and yes, i realize we "don't have" the "cap space" to sign them. whatevs. make it happen.