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

Celtics appear to have locked up Chris Wilcox. So they have a tweener Center to go with all their Power Forwards.

kobe: "they'll get over it, once i show them the door in about 12 hours. where's CP3?"

kobe: i would kill them in their sleep if i thought it would benefit me in some small way

kobe is so funny - nobody irl acts like that but he bought into the media image that he should act like that

what a robot

kobe: next, i'm going to feast on CP3's virgin blood to rejuvenate my aging knees.

kobe: don't judge me, i need it to live.

so the david west deal went through? lol wtf

omg the celts are giving him 3 years, 30m?

in 10 years, there will be only 10 teams in the league

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lol oops

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nytimes otm

So how do small market teams and Stern benefit if Chris Paul is not traded and leaves as a free agent at the end of the season?

its not abt not trading paul, its abt that nola was getting completely hosed in that particular trade

in fact i wouldnt be surprised if he did get moved to the lakers w/a party than houston as the third team

what any team wants when they are forced to move a superstar and go into rebuilding mode is some combo of good young players, quality draft picks, and cap relief, they got none of those things!

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, December 9, 2011 11:41 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

stern has since confirmed that this was in fact his motivation for negging the trade

-also wanted to practice techniques he learned from reading the game

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gonna get raped

rip h to chicago they say, lol i guess

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/7338172/source-chris-paul-los-angeles-lakers-trade-resubmitted

"Yes, we've been given autonomy to make another trade," Hornets general manager Dell Demps told reporters at a news conference Friday night.

lol

does no one understand what 'owning a team' means

i really don't want cp3 on the lakers guys :(

yeah me neither, i dont think theyre championship quality w/him sans odom and gasol tho so w/e lol, their top three players would all be major injury risks now too

they could be a dangerous playoff team if they're all healthy but i don't think this deal adds any wins to their regular season total

i sense a large kobe decline coming

nah unfortunately his decline will be gradual and extremely protracted

thats whats happened so far but gradual decline tends to turn into sudden decline

its weird that the lakers arent going after howard instead of cp3 btw imho

i don't understand what could be included in this trade to make it more palatable -- i mean, the lakers have no young players, unless you consider, uh, derrick caracter -- the rockets have a bunch of young players, some are interesting, maybe not good tho, and also if they're still giving up scola & martin, i'm not sure that they could or should give up much more

yeah me neither, im surprised they didnt try to use a diff third party

theyre prob just playing chicken w/stern hoping hell cave post public outrage

not really a guy i would count on taking kindly to that sort of behavior

don't really understand point guard + shooting guard combo

like, CP3 + dwight howard = rack 'em up. CP3 + kobe - how is CP3 gonna help create more scoring opportunities for Kobels?

i don't understand what could be included in this trade to make it more palatable -- i mean, the lakers have no young players, unless you consider, uh, derrick caracter

ATER MAJOK

In the details available to Yahoo! Sports, Paul goes the Lakers, Pau Gasol to the Rockets, and Houston still sends Kevin Martin, Luis Scola, and a 2012 first-round pick to the Hornets. The main changes in the deal, originally nixed by the NBA, will come between New Orleans and the Lakers, sources say.

i still dgi -- hollinger is speculating that it means bynum is getting flipped for okafor

CP3 + kobe - how is CP3 gonna help create more scoring opportunities for Kobels?

yeah, i think this is right. it creates for LAL the same type of potential redundancies that led to criticism of the wade/bron pairing, but -- for a lot of reasons (including age and health/durability) -- the latter has a lot more upside potential than the former. now if LA adds howard, that will help, but as i say, a lot depends on health and durability. and yeah, kobe may decline fast.

wait, bynum for someone besides howard? i'm a little behind the news today.

which means that the lakers would've traded their two best big men, absorbed the core of last year's 7th seed, and added a 33 year old kobe bryant

well done?

the bynum thing is just john hollinger's speculation as to how paul, gasol, scola and martin can still be involved in a deal that will be in any way significantly different than the nixed trade

odom stays in LA as part of this deal?

so that would be odom -- WORLD PEACE -- bynum -- kobE -- CP3

ehhhhh . . . yeah, i guess.

no, bynum would be leaving

the parameters of this deal are unclear to me. bynum leaving for anything less than howard has to be a big disappointment to LA, since they have nothing left to offer the magic, i assume.

if the Magic lose howard they might as well just create animatronic fans to attend teh games

odom was sulking, last I heard

he'll get over it