kobe: next, i'm going to feast on CP3's virgin blood to rejuvenate my aging knees.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
kobe: don't judge me, i need it to live.
so the david west deal went through? lol wtf
― amon, Saturday, 10 December 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
omg the celts are giving him 3 years, 30m?
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 10 December 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
in 10 years, there will be only 10 teams in the league
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Saturday, 10 December 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/oxyaI.png
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
lol oops
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/x67rH.png
nytimes otm
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Another Suburbanite, Saturday, 10 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
its not abt not trading paul, its abt that nola was getting completely hosed in that particular trade
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
in fact i wouldnt be surprised if he did get moved to the lakers w/a party than houston as the third team
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
-also wanted to practice techniques he learned from reading the game
― dayo, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/pnWQU.jpggonna get raped
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
rip h to chicago they say, lol i guess
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/7338172/source-chris-paul-los-angeles-lakers-trade-resubmitted
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
"Yes, we've been given autonomy to make another trade," Hornets general manager Dell Demps told reporters at a news conference Friday night.
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
lol
does no one understand what 'owning a team' means
i really don't want cp3 on the lakers guys :(
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
i sense a large kobe decline coming
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
nah unfortunately his decline will be gradual and extremely protracted
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
thats whats happened so far but gradual decline tends to turn into sudden decline
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
its weird that the lakers arent going after howard instead of cp3 btw imho
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
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
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah me neither, im surprised they didnt try to use a diff third party
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
theyre prob just playing chicken w/stern hoping hell cave post public outrage
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
not really a guy i would count on taking kindly to that sort of behavior
don't really understand point guard + shooting guard combo
― dayo, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
like, CP3 + dwight howard = rack 'em up. CP3 + kobe - how is CP3 gonna help create more scoring opportunities for Kobels?
― dayo, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
wait, bynum for someone besides howard? i'm a little behind the news today.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
so that would be odom -- WORLD PEACE -- bynum -- kobE -- CP3
ehhhhh . . . yeah, i guess.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
no, bynum would be leaving
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
if the Magic lose howard they might as well just create animatronic fans to attend teh games
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
odom was sulking, last I heard
― Aimless, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
he'll get over it
cuz he's sleeping w/ a Kardashian
well they would be getting back okafor, so in hollinger's theoretical deal their line up would look like
paul-bryant-world peace-odom-okafor
w/ no bench to speak of
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
again, this is just hollinger speculating on how the deal could go through and involve the hornets getting back a good, young player
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
honestly i think that the nets would trump whatever deal the lakers could put up if all they had to offer was bynum anyway
― v-shasty, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link