I don't know how Morey is going to handle this.....he has a choice, he needs to step up and acknowledge to Scola and Martin that they were being traded, but not because he didn't like them but because they were our best trading chips. He needs to bring a hammer and nails and start building that bridge. DD
I don't like it either. DM may as well have thrown in a couple power dancers too. To me it appears that the NBA is trying to make the team easier to sell financially. If they would have gotten some expirings in the deal, they probably would do it.
You might be closer here than you think. The main complaint from owners like Gilbert was that it creates way too much cap room for the Lakers to sign Dwight Howard as well, and they didnt have to give up draft picks, etc. etc. The NBA office is sure to be hammered this morning with an enraged union, agents, angry Hornets GM (who tried to step down last night, but Stern wouldnt let him), angry Les Alexander, and most of all an angry JERRY BUSS. If they do not allow the trade to go down they are looking at a nightmare of negative PR and sure to be lawsuits from the players union. The only option to make everyone happy here is for the NBA to allow the trade with restrictions that keep LA from trading for or signing Dwight Howard by making LA give up picks, take on Ariza's contract, etc.
This has nothing to do with selling the team. By blocking the trade all they did was distroy whatever value The Hornets had left. They will surely move or cuntract it now. This was more about giving the finger to Chris Paul than rejecting it because WE DIDN'T GIVE ENOUGH or as Stern calls it, "basketball reasons".
You're asking where in the rules it says that the owner of a team can refuse to approve a trade? Every owner of every franchise in professional sports has that right. As owners of the Hornets the league office has the right to approve or disaprove any deal the team makes, same as any other owner. As owner of the Hornets was it a good decision? Was it fair to their GM? Was it a bad idea to have the League own the Hornets? How bad would it really have been for the Hornets to take on all of those additional salary committments? Those questions can certainly be debated but they are well within their rights as owners to kill any deal that they don't like and in this case the league office was wearing their "owners" cap and functioning in that role.
Weird....So instead of NOK getting a pretty decent deal for CP3, they are willng to let him walk for nothing.....and the NBA owns them, right?!? This is bad on so many levels...
Good Cause i wanted to keep scola, n martin both are superstars...dude scola scores as much as paul..hes just taller...he just hear cuz he got a championship..blah blah like Chandler...
Can the deal go through if: 1) dwight goes to nets 2) lakers send picks instead of us 3) lakers send $3m in cash to Hornets?
ESPNSteinLine Marc Stein CP3 Trade Latest: Sources tell ESPN com that teams involved in three-team trade blocked by David Stern appealing to NBA to reverse decision
Twitter has killed a GM's ability to make a deal and keep his players in the dark if something falls through. Morey has a tough sell, and this is right after KMart met with him at the end of last year and said he did not appreciate being treated like an asset. LOL - oh man, Morey's job just got a lot tougher. DD
I think this trade will be completed with some tweaks to make Lakers take back more salaries (Ariza) and maybe throw in a draft pick. The way this trade is now Lakers shredded almost $14 million in salary and reduced their lux. tax by more than that. Of course the other owners are not happy because they will be getting less in shared tax revenue.
The league was notified constantly throughout the talks and never said anything until after the trade went through.
Ha, DD, that's pretty dumb, it wasn't Twitter that did it, it's been like that ever since the internet became a popular place to find news.
AschNBA Steve Aschburner “@rick_bonnell: Heard fr NBA exec who predicts league will have 2 relent on veto of CP3 trade. He suspects position indefensible in court.”
Also can odom be sent to another team instead - he doesnt want to be there and it doesn't really make sense considering his age and it would help from a long term salary perspective. Odom for Posey and a first round pick would make a ton of sense considering Pacers want a PF. Or Boston for glen Davis and 2 first rounders. Something like that.
Not true, Twitter consolidated it. I have seen the changes from the launch of the WWW to where it is now information flows much more quickly. DD
ESPN says all three teams are appealing. I guess thats obvious. (Sry if alrdy posted) Spoiler The three teams involved in the Chris Paul trade blocked Thursday by NBA commissioner David Stern are appealing to the league for Stern to reverse the decision, according to sources close to the process. There is no indication yet that Stern is prepared to reverse course after taking the dramatic step of blocking the league-owned New Orleans Hornets' decision to deal Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers. But the primary argument being presented to the league office for allowing the deal to go through as agreed to in principle by the Hornets, Lakers and Houston Rockets is that the NBA's decision would appear to force the Hornets to keep Paul for the rest of the season, despite the fact that he can opt out of his contract and become a free agent July 1 and leave New Orleans without compensation. A trade of Paul elsewhere, according to the teams' argument, would mean that Stern and the league are choosing where Paul would play.
