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― 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
is hollinger just pulling that Nene commitment out of his ass? Cuz I'm inclined to assume so.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
houston woulv have had a ton of cap space had this deal gone down and pau been flipped to the rockets
― ~occubarn~ (clay), Friday, 9 December 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
*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.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
comments my wife just made about various NBA stars:
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
the wouldn't block a howard deal
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ~occubarn~ (clay), Friday, 9 December 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
(i guess they could kill a howard-to-LAL deal if it was the product of tampering or a violation of league rules, but that isn't what happened here, either.)
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
i think the nene thing was the rockets' plan
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
I was under the impression that this trade was "nullified," i.e. it was done under the commissioner's prerogative to approve or not approve any trade.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
or at least grabbing a for real center
not sure where he gets a potential top seed out of that backcourt tho
I'm happy to announce that the NBA has sold the hornets to me, for $1, so that this deal can go through - I'm going on record as saying that I don't object at all to this trade. happy basketball y'all
― dayo, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
fyi, jho has the authority to kill any deal involving howard if he feels it is unjust
― ~occubarn~ (clay), Friday, 9 December 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, December 8, 2011 8:33 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark
no, stern as the 'owner' of the team, killed the trade like any owner could
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
another horrible thing: they just lowered the franchise value of the hornets!
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 9 December 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link