I bet they'll make a tweak or two to the deal (adding salary to LA and/or LA sending out picks) and let it go through. Can't see how they can rationally block three teams from making a deal. I like how Jonathan Feigen put it this morning on SportsRadio610... "This monumentally stupid." He mad good points in terms of how this will effect trying to sell the Hornets to potential buyers and keep them in New Orleans. Block trade, can;t accept any more deals for him because of it, he walks and NO gets nothing/has no team, no one wants to buy a train wreck with no players. At least with this deal, NO has a complete team competing for a playoff spot and looks more appealing to investors.
In general, he is right. Most people were negative, and a few were nuetral. Very few liked it at first. On and on...
When teams have been prepped for sale in the past their rosters are more likely gutted for expiring contracts and they play the draft sweepstakes. They're usually sold after a team has gotten that high upside player in the draft.
The Lowry/Rafer trade wasn't anywhere near the magnitude of this trade. This trade is a directional trade...involving 2 of the 3 best players on our roster. I will readily admit that Lowry seemed to be a relatively unknown, and my confusion initially on that deal was that I didn't know enough about him. That's not the case with Pau Gasol. We have a huge sample size to know exactly who Pau Gasol is.
stevekylerNBA Steve Kyler Sources near Chris Paul transaction say NBA & all parties involved in trade will revisit deal, but none are optimistic of an answer today. KBergCBS Ken Berger In addition, Paul is weighing other legal options over trade to Lakers being rejected by commissioner, source says.
Additionally, going to the playoffs generates more revenue for your team from ticket sales, advertising, ect.
Hornets become a legit team after the trade dragic martin ariza west scola okafor odom this is better than 75 perc of nba teams.
IF the acting GM for NO was given autonomous power to improve the team with the best trade he can make, and the trade is legal under league rules, how can it be stopped? If he wasn't given autonomous power then what are the conditions of his power? Is it just the commissioner that has final say? Do the owners vote with a majority? "It's not true that the owners killed the deal," NBA spokesman Mike Bass said. "The deal was never discussed at the Board of Governors meeting and the league office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons. Yet in an email to Stern obtained by Yahoo! Sports and The New York Times, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert called the proposed deal "a travesty" and urged Stern to put the deal to a vote of "the 29 owners of the Hornets," referring to the rest of the league's teams. But Stern stepped in to nix the swap and leave all three teams with several shell-shocked players and officials heading into Friday's scheduled start of training camps, after the commissioner insisted for months that Hornets general manager Dell Demps and the rest of the team's front office had autonomy over basketball decisions. Sources close to the situation said Demps and teams that have pursued Paul had been assured the Hornets had the clearance to trade Paul as they saw fit. Said NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver on how involved the league is in Hornets decision-making: "Ultimately the buck stops with the league office. But we're relying on the management -- Jac Sperling, Dell Demps, Hugh Weber -- we're relying on the management of that team to make decisions that are in the best interest of that franchise. But ultimately the decision rests with the league office. The final final say." http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/7333285/los-angeles-lakers-deal-acquire-chris-paul-off
This is the question, the other owners have a piece of the Hornets, but if they put Demps in charge to avoid a conflict of interest scenario, then Stern may have overstepped his authority here. DD
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this has to be fixed today or it will destroy the rockets Free Agency hopes...Nene might have agreed to wait but I doubt he waits with this uncertainty
He definitely overstepped his authority here. Conflict of interest is not a joke in the legal field. I sometimes wonder if Stern has a brain, or the lawyers working for him are just r****ded
