Cavs Owner Dan Gilbert’s E-mail to Stop Chris Paul Trade to Lakers

A lot of talk about players and owners, nothing in between? what about management, whose job it actually is to assemble teams? San Antonio aint a huge market, they have good management, they win. This is very simple. Dan Gilbert needs new management. At what point does it become normal that the guy in the warehouse dictates contracts and profits with the CEO? This is why we have management in between, to manage sh*t. If your trucks don’t run on time, we don’t bring the whole parcel industry to a halt. A company that manages their sh*t better picks up the gaps.

He should write a letter to David Stern dated 3 to 4 years in the future, calling to ban the trade of Kyrie Irving/whoever they land in 2012 when they inevitably leave for whichever team has a title in their sights. Then he can end up with nothing and just keep going through the same process every few years. I love to see smaller teams get better through keeping their drafted talent, but it isn’t always that simple or realistic. But then he is a trade genius – Mo Williams for Baron Davis was inspired. Idiot.

“That $21 million goes to non-taxpaying teams and to fund revenue sharing.”

As if it’s the Lakers’ duty to be in luxury tax territory so that cheap owners like Dan Gilbert (and Donald Sterling) can collect the welfare. How dare Jerry Buss make a deal in which he won’t have to pay as much of the (now much stiffer) luxury tax! If you want a franchise tag, get it in the CBA. This informal franchise tag business (at Stern’s whim or behest of particular owners) is an absolute joke and how can it possibly be legally justified? The Lakers are giving up 2 all-stars! This ain’t no one-sided Ted Stepien giveaway that warrants league interference–it’s a totally legit, reasonable trade. Make the rules and let teams try to be as good as they can be or avoid luxury tax. Lakers are within the rules and did nothing wrong. If they are stuck with two players who know they were traded. This consequence alone damages the Lakers and it’s not right.

So they attack the Lakers because they know how to make a deal (save luxury tax, get a new franchise player, don’t give up draft picks).
Every fan wishes that his franchise would act like that.

I’m pretty sure none of those guys that woulda landed in NO were allstars and will ever be allstars, and this is from a fan of two of the three, I love Luis Scolas game and am sad that san antonio traded/passed on him, Lamar Odoms best chance of being an allstar was last year, in a smaller market and on a team thats not gonna win, i dont see him getting much shine. and lebron fulfilled his contract, begged for better players and didnt get it and left money on the table

I said All-Star *caliber* which all three undeniably are. That’s not even worth arguing. And I have no problem with what LeBron did, so you’re right about that.

How many stars are there really? I mean we could do a top 50-60 for sure. Players that are the best at their profession in the world. Contraction seems to be the best solution for the NBA. Imagine if 5-6 teams were eliminated and those players went to legit BBall teams, competition would rise, the entertainment value would rise. It’s seems unrealistic to spread 50-60 elite players across 30 teams. I propose a 24 team comp where every team could have a “big 3″.Big question is which teams should go? Minny, Cavs,Kings,New Orleans, Bobcats,possibly GSW.

Yeah, I did see what the Hornets would get – Odom who is already 32, and is not any help to a franchise who is years away from contending, Scola who is also 31 and still owed $40 million through 2015 (nice salary dump for Houston there), Kevin Martin who is supposedly in his prime and making second banana money to be a third banana player. Dragic is the only interesting piece for the Hornets in this deal. There’s a reason Houston would part with all three without blinking, just to get a 31 year old Pau Gasol. Rebuilding teams need three things: high draft picks, young prospects, and to clear salary – and if that’s the best deal the Hornets could find, their GM should be fired.

Oh and Dragic is a RFA after this season, not signed long term. So he either puts up good numbers on a bad team and gets rewarded with an outlandish offer from someone, or he doesn’t – and then how much potential are we still talking about after five seasons.

The real question here is, who da frak are Stern/Silver/NBA Owners to SUBJECTIVELY decide a player’s value? I think a very rational argument can be made for the fact the Lakers would be losing the core of a two-time ‘chip winning team for possibly damaged goods!Isn’t this judgement call under a GM/Team President’s purview? There is literally no objective argument to be made against the trade!

Bballer, why would you ever want to eliminate the gsw? Ive been to a couple games there, the fans are great and they are 10th in the league in attendance.

He will have trouble ever getting a star to come play for him. If he drafts another Lebron-like guy he will have trouble getting him to sign an extension unless he offers a deal like the one PuJols got in baseball (10 yrs 260mil)….. Players are friends with each other and they talk with each other all the time and he hurt a lot of players, so all the good players are going to boycott this dude. He will never run a successful team. This was a straight hater move.

This guys a jackass. I think we should just get rid of the cavs. Deny him ownership to anything in the nba. Big cities have the money to always have good teams that makes perfect sense to me. Okc mem and portland are few teams that are in smaller cities that do really well imo. Maybe their gms just know how to do their job

Dan Gilbets the guy who cant have a superstar so now no one should. If he cant keep James there a kid who grew up in the area on his hometown team. Dan Gilbert is going to have to realize hes not going to keep any superstars on that team. Hes just mad that his team value dropped after james gave him the bird and left.

Regardless of if you think this deal would have made the Lakers better or worse this year, the fact that it was nixed sets a bad precedent and severly hinders the Hornets chances to build for the post CP3 era.

Dan Gilbert is like a bitter ex-girlfriend

So instead Chris Paul is going to leave anyway and the hornets get nothing? Yea thats better

Gilbert is simply protecting his own interst and those of many other NBA GM’s most likely. I for one think this is good news for the NBA. The Washington Generals remark was spot on.

Anybody else find it ironic that Dan G.’s move is making it easier for Lebron to get a title? Just sayin…..

Chris paul is a pawn now until he leaves the hornets HIGH AND DRY in the offseason. isn’t that ironic?

It is obvious from not only this email but Dan Gilbert’s various other comments and actions that Lebron did the right thing in getting his tail out of Cleveland. No one should play for that man… The only good that comes out of this is that people can see some of what Lebron had to deal with and will hopefully get off the man’s back for making the best business decision for himself and his family.

Dan Gilbert need to kill himself, he worry about somebody else.

Dan Gilbert needs to be as far away from basketball as possible. How are you complaining about the Lakers GM KNOWING HOW THE F*CK TO DO HIS JOB?! Soon he’ll be coming down on NBA fantasy and 2k leagues!

If only they were at a neighborhood playground and somebody could just smack little DannyG in the face. He’d go home crying and everybody else in the neighborhood could go back to playing the game they way they always have minus the whiny new kid..

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As for Dan Gilbert email obtained by Y! Sports, timestamp shows he didn’t send to Stern until after 10 PM ET. Trade already had been killed.