Hornets are owned by the NBA brah, looks corrupt as fuck sorry. This is why the NBA should have never bailed out the Hornets and just dissolved the franchise after the end of that season. Trading for Howard wouldn’t matter because it would not look like the NBA was in collusion with the Lakers.
They mentioned Dragic & that first round pick Houston got from the Knicks alongside K-Mart & Scola.
NBA commissioner David Stern has killed the New Orleans Hornets’ trade of Chris Paul after several owners complained about the league-owned team dealing the All-Star point guard to the Los Angeles Lakers, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Some owners pushed Stern to demand the trade be nullified, and the Hornets be made to keep Paul on the roster for the foreseeable future, sources said. A chorus of owners were irate with the belief that the five-month lockout had happened largely to stop big-market teams from leveraging small-market teams for star players pending free agency.
“The deal is off,” a source involved in the talks told Y! Sports. “It’s dead.”
Hornets general manager Dell Demps is “disconsolate” over this stunning, heavy-handed move from the commissioner’s office, a source told Y! Sports.
All the players involved in the trade have been told to report to their teams for the start of training camp on Friday.
Before Stern intervened, the Lakers had reached an agreement to acquire Paul in a three-team trade that would have cost them Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Under terms of the deal, the Lakers would have sent Gasol to the Rockets. The Hornets would have received Odom, Rockets guards Kevin Martin and Goran Dragic and forward Luis Scola, league sources said.
Houston had also agreed to send a 2012 first-round pick – previously obtained from the Knicks – to New Orleans as part of the package, a source said.
Hornets general manager Dell Demps had informed two of the other finalists for Paul on Thursday evening that he had a deal in place for Paul to go the Lakers, front-office sources said.
Paul had listed the Lakers as one of his preferred destinations, and it became a more clear choice for him on Thursday after the New York Knicks moved to the brink of completing a four-year, $58 million contract for free-agent center Tyson Chandler. The Knicks lost the salary-cap space they would’ve needed to sign Paul this summer, and the Lakers had been pushing hard to close a deal for Paul with Houston and New Orleans.
The Lakers could turn their attention toward using center Andrew Bynum as a trading chip to make a play for Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard.
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yeah reports are saying the lakers backed out of it. You’re trading away your entire frontcourt for a non guranteed player makes sense to me.
Lakers didn’t back out of it, the owners killed it.
And now Paul walks away at season’s end and the Hornets get nothing in return. One step closer to contraction, or a move to another city.
GG
Which should have happened already and that is something I do fault Stern for. His stubbornness is the only reason NO is still in NO and or still a team. He does not want to admit that moving them back to NO was a huge mistake and does not want to move them as he thinks it makes him look bad.
haha suddenly the nba turns into a bitchy fantasy league
So glad the season is about to start. I’m so ready to support my PACERS ALL DAY LETS GO FOR ANOTHER PLAYOFF
PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAse.
As for the trade between CP3 going to the lakers being killed WDF? The owners are crybaby sons of bitches…
Whatever. I still don’t know if the trade would have been good for the Lakers or not.
Already looks like this new system that was supposed to prevent this kind of bullshit has done nothing to prevent this kind of bullshit.
Don’t even care about the Lakers, it’s fucking unreal that the owners are still bellyaching like this. Is the CBA actually official yet?
So much WTF
Love the thread name change.
But anyway… it just felt shady. Like… it was all set up just so one of the big money NBA franchises could get one of the best players in the NBA. And then you just KNEW the 2nd foot would drop with Dwight soon afterwards.
It’d be like… trading Tom Brady and Marshawn Lynch for Josh Freeman and Knowshon Moreno. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!! SRK NFL FANTASY HATE! BOOYAH!!
This has been THE INVINCIBLE SWORDSMAN saying:
Still, as wrong as the trade was, it feels just as more wrong to veto the thing.
Why do the Hornets have to care where he’ll go. He doesn’t have a no trade clause, he just says there are places he won’t resign.
Find the best possible haul and trade his ass. Fuck Chris Paul. Same with Dwight. I’d be like “You don’t want to be here, I will get as much as possible for your ass to whomever I can trade you to”
lol this is madness. So much drama and the free agency period doesnt even “officially” start till about an hour and 15mins.
LOL NBA said denied ROFL
http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2011/12/08/trade-rumors-flying-at-wicked-clip/?ls=iref:nbahpt1
Glad to have an NBA season 
good luck to you guys!
Of course to follow up my anger post, they did do a horrible job of building around those two players, but still, if they were to try and hold the franchise hostage I’d deal them to whomever gave me the best haul and be like “go get paid then, I don’t give a shit”
I am sorry that Brady trade I still contend was complete bullshit and Kaz should have vetoed that thing in .2 milliseconds. Obvious collusion is obvious.
well it didnt go through right?