odom and pau is a reasonable price to pay for Paul.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
why would the nba step in if they didn't stop the Pau to LA deal?
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ~occubarn~ (clay), Friday, 9 December 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
but it's a fair deal for the hornets!
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i agree it's a fair-deal.
but i think this is about an emotional issue, not a business-judgment.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
If I were Jerry Buss I would be on the phone with litigators.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
I would also be in bed with three hookers.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
three? jerry buss is in the upper 1% of the top 1%. he would have 10 hookers, at least.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
he's getting old
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
see? 3
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
showering, brb
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
hey, those are kobe's women!?!
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
remember when pau gasol got traded for kwame brown lol
― dayo, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski The NBA has killed the proposed deal to send Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers, league sources tell Yahoo! Sports.42 seconds ago Favorite Retweet Reply
unreal!!!
(although tbf they also got rights to marc who turns out is a pretty good center in his own right)
WOW
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
so basically the league just forced Paul to become a free agent.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
ha wtf nba wtf @ u
― ~occubarn~ (clay), Friday, 9 December 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
well, on the bright side, the LAL now have the assets to trade for dwight howard!
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
can you imagine what would have happened if the NFL had done this to Al Davis
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
lol... so was this like the 28 other owners collectively saying f u jerry buss?
― OOOO, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
it's a love letter, of sorts.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
owners' motives are what i thought:
Adrian Wojnarowski -- The NBA has caved to pressure from owners that the appearance of this deal, on heels of lockout, had to be stopped, sources tell Y! Sports.
(not hard to dicipher, admittedly)
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA -- "The deal is off," a source involved in the talks tells Y! Sports. "It's dead."
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
well at least the Rockets were saved from themselves (their owner?)
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
What is going on?
― Carnitas, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
i think this is an excuse by the owners for just feeling super butthurt about the lakers getting chris paul
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
Fuckin little bitches
― Carnitas, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
johnhollinger John HollingerThis is nuts. This was a *BAD* trade by the Lakers, but other owners so jealous of their shiny object they blocked it anyway.
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
how about the appearance of Chris Paul sleepwalking through a season in NO and then leaving them for nothing? That's a better look?
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
how could dell demps even keep that job? he has, what, 30 bosses?
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
demps quitting tomorrow would be a gangsta move
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
it's a great day to be dwight howard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2y1blI9sAc
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
yeah if this results in LAL getting howard it'll be even more ridiculous. how the fuck do these morons become billionaires in the first place with foresight like this?
― ~occubarn~ (clay), Friday, 9 December 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
think he might be going overboard here but
johnhollinger John HollingerLakers would have had no bench, no frontcourt, and virtually no chance at Dwight Howard. Houston, if Nene came, was potential top seed.
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
man i go to a lil wine tasting and come back to this what a day
― cad, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
loool if lakers get d-ho
― dayo, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
dhoshea
― dayo, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
if the lakers get howard now stern should be fired
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
i mean he should be fired anyway but