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
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
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.
but it’s a fair deal for the hornets!
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.
yeah, i agree it’s a fair-deal.
but i think this is about an emotional issue, not a business-judgment.
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.
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.
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?”
that is all.
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
(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.)
i think the nene thing was the rockets’ plan
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.
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
fyi, jho has the authority to kill any deal involving howard if he feels it is unjust
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, 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
another horrible thing: they just lowered the franchise value of the hornets!
this is just utter insanity
but Stern should not be able to nullify a trade in his capacity as “owner,” right? Because obviously as “owner” he would like the deal!
like I said: Buss should sue.
matt, it’s just the optics of the thing mostly. the other owners don’t want the nba making deals regarding superstars going to very visible teams right on the heels of a lockout that, theoretically, was supposed to help small market teams and keep stars from bolting whenever they felt like it.
but Stern should not be able to nullify a trade in his capacity as “owner,” right? Because obviously as “owner” he would like the deal!
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, December 8, 2011 8:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
yeah but he doesn’t have to have a good reason to stop his GM from trading one of his players
owners don’t consult with other owners about how their trade has hurt their feewwwwings. Which is why the Lakers should sue.
and can the owners possibly be so dumb as to buy their own BS about the reasons for the lockout? It was always about the revenue split and contract lengths.
there was a lot of small-market owner anger at big-market teams.
the labor-dispute was largely owner v. owner.
the labor-dispute was largely owner v. owner.
this is totally true and never really got enough coverage.
this wasn’t about optics or owners being concerned about the league’s image — it was about butthurt owners
butthurt small-market team owners. micky arison didn’t do this.
RT @MickyArison Whatever happens with @CP3 all I can say is I wish him the the best.
oh god, daniel. don’t just assume that bcuz micky arison amassed the big 3 that he was just totally cool w/ the lakers starting to assemble a super team to rival the heat.
RicBucher Ric Bucher
Reports are owners squashed Hou-LA-NO deal, citing conflict of interest for NBA-owned NO. But sources say Pau didn’t want to go to Hou, too.
yeah, no shit
David Stern steps in to protect the fragile pride of Pau Gasol
what’s the evidence you have for thinking arison’s trying to pull the ladder out now that he’s climbed up into the treehouse of NBA powerhouses?
maybe if the league wanted to restrict player movement they shouldn’t have asked for the players to give them 3 billion dollars.
what’s the evidence you have that he didn’t? a tweet at chris paul? the guy is a CEO, he knows how to put on a good face.
sorry that sounded overly harsh. arison’s comments — during the lockout and now — suggest to me he’s not afraid of competiton or player movement or other teams ascending. maybe i’m wrong. we’re all just reading tea leaves about individual owner’s motives.
it’s in arison’s interest to be pro-player. he’ll be able to spend a lot of money to create a new team if and when the Big 3 move on, retire, get injured, etc. that’s a business-savvy perspective that a good CEO might take, as well.
i highly doubt that he tried to step in and defend the rights of jerry buss and the lakers to come for a crown that the heat desperately need
like mccain said when the GOP was proposing to kill the fillibuster in, say, 2003: “i’d like this idea more if i thought we’d always be in the majority.”
yeah but this move will have no precedent unless he’s planning on trading for a hornet while the team is owned by the nba
rescind the wilt chamberlain trade!
pretty fucking shameful that ESPN doesn’t acknowledge Woj for breaking the story.
everyone carry on
NBA spox Mike Bass: “It’s not true that owners killed the deal. The League office declined ... for basketball reasons.”
i think it’s actually unspoken espn policy to never credit yahoo
unless it’s something completely unavoidable, like hurricanes scandal
“basketball reasons”
hooooly shit @ tonight
jordan otm throughout
For Basketball Reasons
xp chuch
chris paul, i think, could and maybe even should sue the league
jerry buss wouldn’t really be able to sue for anything, unless they ginned up some number to represent the estimated revenue that chris paul would’ve made the team, which considering the team involved, is prob pretty minimal
paul on the other hand via the cba is actually being forced out of money against his will by the nba, and that’s something he could reasonably pursue
ppl are talking about that on twitter—idk what kind of grounds he’d have to do that but i’d lol xp