Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 2:27 pm  |  133 responses

Chris Paul Requests Trade to NY

CP3 reportedly wants to be moved to the Knicks.

With Chris Paul’s future very much up in the air, Yahoo! is reporting that the superstar point guard has one destination on his mind: The Big Apple. Some details: “Chris Paul’s agent informed New Orleans officials on Wednesday that his client will not sign a contract extension and wants to be traded to the New York Knicks, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. As soon as the NBA lifts its lockout restrictions, Hornets general manager Dell Demps wants to meet with Paul and hear that directive from him. Nevertheless, the prospects of the Hornets executing a trade with the Knicks appear to be relatively dim. The Knicks simply don’t have the trade assets that come close to meeting New Orleans’ criteria for a deal. Demps has been listening to overtures from teams around the league, and has been actively working under the assumption that Paul would reject a contract extension. The Hornets have no intention of letting Paul walk away at season’s end without trying to get maximum value for him. There are several teams, including the Boston Celtics, that could be willing to make a deal for Paul with the hope of convincing him to eventually sign an extension. The Hornets will be motivated to make a deal as soon as possible for Paul, and aren’t completely determined to get a point guard in return for him, sources said. They’re willing to play Jarrett Jack as the starter for the rest of the season, and mostly want to gather the best possible package of overall talent and draft picks. Paul has reached out to Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard recently, encouraging Howard to find a way for the two to play together, sources told Yahoo! Sports. That would be a difficult scenario for the Knicks to make happen. Paul’s desire to join the Knicks was cemented after he spent so much time in New York over the summer with close friend, Carmelo Anthony.”

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  • http://www.twitter.com/hurstysyd Hursty

    You know, I was gonna make a long-winded comment on this topic, but AllenP just takes the words off my fingertips. I agree 100% with him on every statement and reply he made, as they were exactly as I’d have replied.

  • eZ

    The NBA tries to give teams with stars an advantage to retain them by allowing them to offer more money. As allenp said, it cannot be greed when a player wants to leave so badly that he gives up many millions. Further more when a player has given a club 6 or 7 years of his career what more do you want from him? Thats half his career right there. Let that player choose his own destiny for a couple of years, before he gets old and is handed around like some commodity (billups, ewing ..)

  • Jono

    All these trade requests and free-agent signings make me respect Tim Duncan and Dirk Nowitzki so much more.

  • eZ

    As for the so called super teams, i’m more amused by them than afraid of them. The price to gain three max players is steep. Miami can tell you all about that one. Really who was seriously gonna challenge them in the east last year? Old and injured boston, onedimensional and inexperienced chicago? Indiana, Atlanta.? Thats why they still got far.
    You need a complete team to compete for a title, one that has offensive and defensive balance well-spread among its players. Just teaming up studs doesn’t guarantee you that. James and wade do not compliment each ochers skills and style of play and same goes for amare and melo. That jeans that their teamvalue is not maximized on such rosters. Its a waste. Adding Paul over billups will not bring nyc a title, in itself. Pairing Paul or dwill with dwight is much more effective. Theres enough talent in the NBA to form many good teams, there are 30 Allstars everything year right? It just baffles me sometimes how gm’s just seem to want to stockpile talent instead of looking for complimentary pieces to their puzzle.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys6VpgI9BHA datkid

    oh so dirk was always tough huh mike c? oh ok. yeah you’re retarded. guys stop calling dirk tough… please.

  • Justin

    What exactly constitutes being tough in your guys’ minds? Banging in the paint for rebounds and loose balls, playing through injury, playing through pain and fatigue, something else? Who’s the first player that comes to mind when the word “tough” gets thrown around and why?

  • http://www.fiba.ch Darksaber

    ‘Discussing’ Nowitzki’s toughness a few months after he tore through team (and player after player) after team to win a ring, how very 2006 to even go there. And utterly stupid.
    Slamonline: where delusions happen.
    NBA Champ, fools. Choooooke on it.

  • http://slamonline.com Allenp

    Justin
    What you’re saying is that you preferred it when players were dependent on GMs to make quality trades and draft well. You don’t like the idea that players recognize who can play and who can’t and decide who they want to play with themselves.
    The result is exactly the same, but you would prefer if somebody else had the power and control.
    That’s not a sign that players are soft, that’s a sign that fans would prefer if they stayed in their “places.”
    Bird’s Celtics were a super team. So were Magic’s Lakers. Isiah Pistons were like Dirk’s Mavs. Kobe and Shaq on the same freaking team was a super team. Duncan and Robinson. Barkley, Pippen and Hakeem.
    Dr. J. Moses Malone, Andrew Toney, Darryl Dawkins. Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, and Wilt. Russell and his gang of Hall of Famers. Walt Frazier, Pearl, Bradley and Willis Reed.
    The most stories teams in NBA history are all super teams. The only difference is how they were assembled. Which means there is no real difference besides who is wielding power. That’s what the lockout was about.

  • http://slamonline.com Sam Rubenstein

    When I met with potential bands to play at my wedding, one guy said he played at Melo’s wedding and confirmed the story that Chris was there and there was a toast to their future in NY. It was their version of the secret meeting the big 3 had in China.

  • Mike From Spain

    Just a thought… perhaps Dwight, STAT and CP3 is a better combination than STAT, CP3 and Melo. Of course, it is better if you can have all 4 of them, but if I were to choose, if I have an elite PG, why would I want a ball dominant wing player whose strength is that he creates his own shot, and then have weak interior defense? I think that Melo could well be packaged to get Dwight Howard if CP3 is coming to NY… what do you think?

  • http://slamonline.com Allenp

    Aren’t there some rules that would prevent a trade so soon? That base year compensation rule or something?
    I agree that a dominant big is better than a what Melo brings to the table, but can you imagine the wars between Miami and the Knicks in the playoffs if it’s CP3, Melo and Stat versus LeBron, Wade and Bosh.
    I mean, I don’t care about the other teams, that has the potential to be outstanding basketball right there. That type of competition makes players take their games to a new level. It separates the wheat from the chaff.

  • http://slamonline.com Allenp

    And then if Dwill hooked up with Dwight and got another serious player, like even Brook Lopez and a decent wing. Oh goodness. Man, that would be so freaking awesome.
    Because you would still have OKC and Memphis out in the West along with whatever young team makes a leap in upcoming years.
    I am fully in support of super teams, just to make that clear. GMs have shown they lack the intelligence and patience to pay role players correctly and build teams of blended talent. Therefore, let the superstars take control. At least that way I know I will get exciting basketball.
    For all their faults, Miami was worth the price of admission last year, particularly during the playoffs.

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    You know who else is actually in support of super teams? Owners in a system where revenue is shared. Funny how that worked out. The lockout, to prevent players from forming super teams, ended up with similar restrictions on such teams as before, except now the owners get to share the money from them. Just like they wanted.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tennenJin hojin kim

    Orlando gonna make the magic outta gettin CP3 & Trevor Ariza and trade nelson/ agent 0 and others lol come on!!!

  • Babalooey

    Why would Paul go to Boston, when they have Rondo?

  • hushabomb

    Would a 3 way of OKC, NO, NY work. NO gets Westbrook and a player, NY gets Paul, OKC gets STAT.

  • What

    hes going to the clippers DUMBIES!!!

  • http://yahoo Vic Lebardo

    This article is six months old. Check the date. Your writers haven’t gotten out of the bar?

  • Ebenezer

    ATL!!! Atlanta has cap space to make this happen in free agency next year. CP3, D12, J-Smoove, and Al Horford?!?! Come On!!!

  • black pinoy

    OH COME ON!!! WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE ON A DRAFT?? DURANT OT HOWARD??

  • http://twitter.com/BigMike2591 Mike Moulton Jr.

    Holy shit, this is EXACTLY what happened now……..You must be some type of telepathic to have know this shit

  • Plus15

    It’s pathetic that you are still posting this story which is very old and events in the life of Chris Paul have passed it by.

  • Tim Johnson

    right exactly wtf is this ….., i seen a pic of cps summer with a yankee fitted on where the loyality !!

  • Tim Johnson

    naw MAN STAT WILL BE BETTER OFF GOING TO THE CLIPPERS FOR JORDAN AND WING PLAYERS …!! LOL HOWARDS NOT GOING ANYWHERE HE JUST BOUGHT A FUCKIN 20 MILL DOLLAR HOUSE AND WROTE A FUCKIN CHECK FOR IT !! GET OVER IT BROOKLYN !!

  • Knicks#1

    ^ I like that.

  • Adam Contreras

    Poor Clippers fans. Poor poor POOR Clippers. Once Chris Paul leaves, they only going to have the Big 1 which is Griffin #32.

  • Christian Loizzi

    For god sakes, Paul will go to the Clippers along with 2 future picks for Gordon, Kaman, Aminu, and Minnesota’s pick and Dwight will go to the Lakers in a 4-team deal that will send Dwight, Duhon, and Clark to L.A., Bynum and Richardson will go to Philly, Iguodala will go to Denver, and Afflalo, Harrington, McRoberts, Eyenga, Vucevic, Harklass, and picks.

  • Christian Loizzi

    will go to Orlando

  • the guy

    CLIPPERS

  • acmaggio

    Its now 2013. Remove this ancient article.

  • http://twitter.com/pogivic19 Vicente Lebardo

    Slow day. Again. The date of this article is Dec. 1, 2011.

  • http://www.facebook.com/alfred.luna1 Alfred Luna

    This article is 2 years old. Who cares, he is a Clipper

  • BEAST

    is shumps contract up???

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