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

if that happens the rest of the nba season should just be lakers vs. heat every night xp

Amare's deal is also uninsurable. Great franchise plan they've got up there!

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, December 8, 2011 7:14 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah i thought you were talking about amare my b

I kind of wonder how championships from shortened seasons are viewed in comparison with regular chips - like do people just not respect the spurs chip from the 50 game season as much as they do their other chips

That whole season is basically forgotten.

that knicks team was so embarrassing

so even if dwight/kb8/cp3 win a chip this season they'd have to win one next season as well to 'leave a legacy' and by then kobe's knees are just gonna fall off

the hornets might suck this year because of a short training camp, and their pg play will be bad, but this is not a bad nba rotation:

Jack
Kevin Martin/Willie Green
Lamar Odom/Trevor Ariza
Luis Scola/Landry?
Okafor

Throw in the 2012 knicks pick via the rockets and they could be ok in a year (in San Jose?)

(I think the knicks will suck this year)

the stupid thing is that the knicks screwed themselves over by getting melo. he's awesome, but deron or cp3 or howard would've made a ton more sense for them.

they also wildly overpaid.

whoa! you're talkin' baout the guy who took the Syracuse Orangemen to the championship, matt!

the syrcause version of hakim warrick would be the third best player on the knicks

kind of agree with this, at the current stage of the LAL's roster overhaul, at least:

Michael Wallace @WallaceNBA_ESPN -- Unless move had 2b made for personal, locker-room reasons, I don't c trade making LAL better. Gave up 2 clear advantages in depth/size.

hmm hmm

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA -- NBA owners have pushed commissioner David Stern to kill the deal sending Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers, sources tell Y! Sports.

wow that would be so funny

I don't see how he could kill it, since the only team getting ripped off is Houston.

this is okay now because of revenue sharing, every team profits

― The Love Song of L. Alfred Sotosyn (dayo),

yeah that's the line but this is totally on some supply-side "let the rich get richer and the wealth will trickle down to the milwaukie bucks" tip!

there's really nothing wrong with this deal!

odom and pau is a reasonable price to pay for Paul.

why would the nba step in if they didn't stop the Pau to LA deal?

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA -- Owners were irate in Board of Governors meeting with Stern, livid that the league-owned Hornets were allowed to make Paul deal, sources say

omg david stern please put the kabosh on this that would be like the most A+ way imaginable to start the season after this clusterfuck

why would the NBA kill this deal, but not the earlier gasol deal? because the NBA owns the hornets now, and the owners are in an uproar that a protracted lockout, supposedly to ensure competitive balance and to screw the big-market teams, is shown to be a sham within a day of the resulting deal being ratified.

but it's a fair deal for the hornets!

i mean, the CBA isn't a sham, but if the purpose was to humble the big-market teams, this trade -- and the rumored one down the road for howard -- show the new CBA didn't accomplish that goal.

yeah, i agree it's a fair-deal.

but i think this is about an emotional issue, not a business-judgment.

If I were Jerry Buss I would be on the phone with litigators.

I would also be in bed with three hookers.

three? jerry buss is in the upper 1% of the top 1%. he would have 10 hookers, at least.

he's getting old

i mean, i guess the league could skirt the legal issue by banning the hornets -- their team -- from trading paul. i'm sure it would fly, legally, if they wanted to do it that way.

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA -- The NBA is now pushing New Orleans GM Dell Demps to pull the plug on the trade and keep Chris Paul, league sources tell Y! Sports.

yeah, exactly

lol at the first day of training camp if odom and gasol have to come back to LAL.

http://www.bandofballers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/jerry-buss.jpg

see? 3

showering, brb

hey, those are kobe's women!?!

remember when pau gasol got traded for kwame brown lol

WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
The NBA has killed the proposed deal to send Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers, league sources tell Yahoo! Sports.
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unreal!!!

(although tbf they also got rights to marc who turns out is a pretty good center in his own right)

WOW

so basically the league just forced Paul to become a free agent.

holy shit

ha wtf nba wtf @ u

well, on the bright side, the LAL now have the assets to trade for dwight howard!

can you imagine what would have happened if the NFL had done this to Al Davis

lol... so was this like the 28 other owners collectively saying f u jerry buss?

it's a love letter, of sorts.