[rquoter]The Lakers, Hornets and Rockets have re-engaged and are exploring possible ways of completing a proposed three-way deal involving Chris Paul, multiple sources connected to the deal told SI.com. Before the sides re-opened discussions, one source close to the process was told the deal was simply put "on hold," as opposed to completely dead. On Thursday, the NBA, which took over control of the Hornets from George Shinn last December, vetoed a trade that would have sent Paul to the Lakers, Pau Gasol to the Rockets and Lamar Odom, Luis Scola, Kevin Martin, Goran Dragic and a 2012 first-round pick from Houston to New Orleans. Representatives from the three teams have communicated and understand that they need to sweeten the deal for New Orleans, either through additional players or future draft considerations. Part of the problem the teams have run into is dealing with New Orleans. The Hornets have just five players under contract for 2011-12 and some of the pieces that could be involved in a deal are not yet signed. According to one source involved in the talks, the Hornets have not told Houston or L.A. who they can trade, when they can trade them and how long the contract will be for. While the Lakers are eager to add Paul, the Rockets have been aggressively trying to close the deal. Acquiring Gasol would not only give them an offensive force on the post, but trading Scola and Martin would free up the cap space for Houston to offer free-agent center Nene a four-year deal between $14 million and $16 million per season. On Friday, Yahoo! Sports reported that the Nets were preparing to offer Nene a four-year deal worth $60 million to $65 million. ... In the absence of a three-team deal with Houston and the Lakers, New Orleans would need to reassess the league-wide market for Paul as well. Sources said that process began taking place on Thursday night, when Hornets general manager Dell Demps -- who reportedly considered quitting as a result of this fiasco -- started picking up the phone again in attempt to find a deal that might be to the NBA's liking.[/rquoter] http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20.../chris.paul/index.html?sct=hp_t2_a3&eref=sihp
whatever they put together is not going to go through. stern is hell bent on keeping cp3 in NO. i think the "tweaking" the trade is so they can say they tried a second time before they take legal action against the league, which will inevitably happen.
I have a question, How the f is a deal, regardless of who owns the team, 100% dependable on what the League commissioner wants??? Isn´t this completely wrong....... I just have a bad feeling about this man.
Afters years of Stern-Lakers batting for each other conspiracy theories it's now Stern the Laker hater...
I really hope this deal goes through. I do not mind paying 15 mil for Nene and then hoping D-Will would be interested in coming here next summer
If they want the deal to work, the Lakers will have to cough up a better package, a lot better, a whole lot better.
Morey will just walk away then. He's already been made a fool once. No reason for it to happen again.
Because he had a done deal, that's when you have to put them on the table Then Robert DiNiro walks over and says " no game, all bets are off"
You know what I'd actually love the most? If we were going to keep Scola and only trade Martin in some combination of a deal. Is Gasol/Scola really that much worse than Gasol/Nene? Yeah, Scola is shorter and not a shot-blocker and a worse defender than Nene. Our front court would be "softer". But Scola is much better offensively than Nene. And he comes at a much better price. Maybe then it would go through, as NO would take on less salary. (If I can dream, I'd also like to keep Dragic over Flynn, but that's a minor issue. And if we could somehow dump Thabeet on LA in the process to make the whole deal look less in LA's favor, that would also be sweet ).
