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Regardless of how you feel, the NBA just screwed up the Rockets free-agency plans

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by zooch, Dec 9, 2011.

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  1. ascaptjack

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    WTF? Seriously? Can you give me a link to the story?

    If so, wow!
     
    #41 ascaptjack, Dec 9, 2011
  2. tallanvor

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    Absolutely he should quit. MY guess is he will, he is just sleeping it off before making his decision. I wouldn't even take another job in the NBA if I where him. Why would he stay?
     
    #42 tallanvor, Dec 9, 2011
  3. wallyj12

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    http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...narowski_chris_paul_lakers_hornets_nba_120811
     
    #43 wallyj12, Dec 9, 2011
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    #44 HMMMHMM, Dec 9, 2011
  5. ascaptjack

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    So we can't offer Nene a contract that he's demanding, even by amnesty cutting Thabeet?

    This still hasn't sunk in yet.

    We lost out on a Gasol/Nene/Patterson/Hayes frontcourt?
     
    #45 ascaptjack, Dec 9, 2011
  6. HMMMHMM

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    Who knows. I'm sure the Rockets are working on trying to fix this mess as we speak.

    It's certainly possible that the Rockets still end up with Nene, but like the OP said, no matter how you felt about this trade, the fact that the NBA blocked it screwed the Rockets up big time, as they now have wasted hours and hours of negotiating and planning.
     
    #46 HMMMHMM, Dec 9, 2011
  7. robbie380

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    I have to agree. I thought the trade was pretty even and all the teams involved were getting and giving a lot. Complete bull**** that it was blocked.
     
    #47 robbie380, Dec 9, 2011
  8. ascaptjack

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    Seriously.

    Why didn't the league block the Kwame Brown and murder suspect Javaris Crittenton for Pau Gasol?

    What a bunch of bull****!
     
    #48 ascaptjack, Dec 9, 2011
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    #49 robbie380, Dec 9, 2011
  10. tallanvor

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    People keep saying it's because the Hornets are owned by the league, but the email from Gilbert suggests that's bull****. Stern did it simply because some owners thought the trade was unfair.
     
    #50 tallanvor, Dec 9, 2011
  11. ascaptjack

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    Got this from another forum but any of you legal eagles thing this can happen?

     
    #51 ascaptjack, Dec 9, 2011
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    I think that as a fiduciary to the Hornet's ownership Demps has the final say. They entrusted him the keys to the car and they need to be confident that he is making the right moves for the team in the same way that an executor is responsible for properly executing a will.
     
    #52 treyk3, Dec 9, 2011
  13. saleem

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    I didn't like the trade,but I hated the interference from the owners.
     
    #53 saleem, Dec 9, 2011
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    Stern only allows Kwame for Gasol.

    When you tried to trade Scola/Martin/Dragic/Pick for Gasol, he thinks thats way too good and righteous of a deal to create any publicity.

    ****n interference from owners? wow

    way to kill 2 struggling franchises, stern. the rockets and hornets havent experienced any notable success for a better part of 2 whole decades and now you wish to impale your own ego on the entire association, as if to say, :"this is my league!!!"

    the was the best trade morey could have ever wished for, and now fans, not excluding me, are sitting at home fuming over what a farcical cockblock stern decided to issue out purely based on his own maniacal manipulation.

    F@($)*@)($KING GAYEST COCKBLOCK
     
    #54 W22_STREAK, Dec 9, 2011
  15. Vienna Calling

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    Why did the league block that trade? How on earth is this trade veto supposed to help the Hornets?

    Instead of getting considerable talent in Odom, Martin, Scola, Dragic and a first round pick they have to let Paul walk next summer and get nothin in return for him...I just don't get this.

    I have to admit, I didn't like the trade from the Rocket's perspective but what David Stern has done is absolutely inacceptable in my opinion.
     
    #55 Vienna Calling, Dec 9, 2011
  16. Raven

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    The Rockets weren't screwed, they were saved.

    Thank you Dan Gilbert, thank you, thank you, thank you!
     
    #56 Raven, Dec 9, 2011
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    The NBA are tring to sell that team so he hampers the franchise by replacing a superstar with non-superstar vets with large 3-4 yr contracts.

    The trade they should be going for for is young players with upside, expiring contracts, and higher value picks.
     
    #57 cod, Dec 9, 2011
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    Which is where the owners argument seems to rest, they want financial maximisation, not basketball, they're not the same (see LA Clippers).

    When you're basically running a team as a defacto bankruptcy, the creditors do get pull on financial grounds.
     
    #58 Aleron, Dec 9, 2011
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    I understand however the front office has pros working so they are supposed to be back on track negotiating and executing again.
     
    #59 daywalker02, Dec 9, 2011
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    It's part of the misty cloud enshrouding David Stern who is unfathomable
     
    #60 daywalker02, Dec 9, 2011
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