seriously.. hell, i think an offer of martin, lowry, hill, budinger and picks would suffice. but quickly, an aside.. IS DAVID STERN OUT OF HIS FUKN MIND? how is it that 24 hrs after crafting a hornets counteroffer that sends KMART, SCOLA, LOWRY and TWO picks (in addition to ODOM), DAVID STERN is on the verge of approving a deal that gives the hornets eric bledsoe, al farooq aminu, chris kaman, and a MIN 2012 pick? i am livid. this makes absolutely no sense to me. if it wasn't for our #bullsonparade and tom brady reincarnate, aka TJ yates, i woulda **** a chicken today..
This is the ******* understatement of the century. Clutchfans + reading comprehension = never gonna happen.
Thats a lot for possibly one season of CP3 I imagine. Or maybe Hornets got TOO stingy wanting to pillage from both the Rockets AND Lakers. If you're comfortable dealing for an indirect "gateway option" for the purpose of DRAWING IN Howard, I guess its worth it.
And like everyone knows what "non-starter" means. I think we get the reading comprehension thing by now
I CANT ****ING BELIEVE MOREY ACCEPTED THIS! WTF! ****ING RIDICULOUS. HE'S A ****ING JOKE AND A DISGRACE AS A GM. FIRE HIS ****ING DUMBASS.
No, he was willing to do Scola, Martin, Dragic and the NY pick. Morey/Rockets balked at Lowry replacing Dragic and the other extras. In Stern's scenario, Houston would replace New Orleans at the bottom of the barrel which he was willing to do in order to make the Hornets attractive on the market, perhaps?
See, I told you Morey wasn't going to let Stern rape him. Morey checkmated Stern and Stern flipped the table over. It's as simple as that. Stern needs to go. He's been a great commish up to this point. But he's old and he's failed on the New Orleans front and it has hurt the league tremendously. He needs to retire.
Trade Scola to contender for expiring. Let Patterson develop and see what TWill can do as a #1 scoring option. Tank.
When exactly was Stern a great commish? He inherited a league on the rise, turned it into the star driven, unwatchable basketball we have today, and presided over labor deal after labor deal that killed the competitive balance in the league. Great commish.
Small market owners ordered Stern to block the trade under any circumstances. I think that is fairly obvious. What people are wrong about, however, is Stern himself. Everyone is saying that Stern is out of control. Just the opposite. This entire fiasco is proof that Stern has lost control. That he's not bullying owners, they are bullying him. The trade wasn't blocked because Stern has too much power. It happened because he has too little.
I was referring to the 2nd trade. As in, since Stern rejected the first trade, this was his way of rejecting the 2nd trade while still making it look like a "basketball decision". He likely felt it would be still be a nightmare if he let the revised version go through. So he preemptively sabatoged it to make it look like NO's decision and not his. I agree with you on him rejecting the first trade due to owners' pressure though.
Paul has agreed not to opt out after this season so the Clippers are guarenteed to have him for 2 seasons. If they resign Griffin then likely Paul resigns too.
