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

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.

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)

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA -- "The deal is off," a source involved in the talks tells Y! Sports. "It's dead."

well at least the Rockets were saved from themselves (their owner?)

What is going on?

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.

i think this is an excuse by the owners for just feeling super butthurt about the lakers getting chris paul

Fuckin little bitches

johnhollinger John Hollinger
This is nuts. This was a *BAD* trade by the Lakers, but other owners so jealous of their shiny object they blocked it anyway.

how about the appearance of Chris Paul sleepwalking through a season in NO and then leaving them for nothing? That's a better look?

how could dell demps even keep that job? he has, what, 30 bosses?

demps quitting tomorrow would be a gangsta move

it's a great day to be dwight howard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2y1blI9sAc

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?

think he might be going overboard here but

johnhollinger John Hollinger
Lakers would have had no bench, no frontcourt, and virtually no chance at Dwight Howard. Houston, if Nene came, was potential top seed.

man i go to a lil wine tasting and come back to this what a day

loool if lakers get d-ho

dhoshea

if the lakers get howard now stern should be fired

i mean he should be fired anyway but

is hollinger just pulling that Nene commitment out of his ass? Cuz I'm inclined to assume so.

houston woulv have had a ton of cap space had this deal gone down and pau been flipped to the rockets

*would've

why would Stern allow a similar deal for Howard to the Lakers now? It would be clear then that the league was just burning the Hornets franchise to the ground.

comments my wife just made about various NBA stars:

• dwight howard: "oooh, he's cute."
• d-rose: "he looks like dwight howard, but not as cute."
• lebron james: "he used to be cute. does he have tattoos?"
• dwyane wade: "he's short, isn't he?"
• chris bosh: "tall, looks like he has a shrunken head."
• pat riley: "oooooh, i like him. is he married?"

the wouldn't block a howard deal

well the league can't be accused of tampering in a deal like that. the hornets/lakers deal had bad optics since the league essentially runs NO.

stern has no ability to kill a howard to lakers trade. the NBA doesn't own either of those teams.

they could do this in a snap bcuz they have control of the hornets -- they wouldn't set a precedent of vetoing trades b/w two third parties