Thursday, December 8th, 2011 at 9:14 pm  |  160 responses

Chris Paul-to-Lakers Trade Hits Snag, Won’t Go Through


Earlier today, the Internet exploded when news broke that the Hornets were trading Chris Paul to the Lakers in a three-team trade that’d also move Lamar Odom, Kevin Martin, Luis Scola and Goran Dragic to New Orleans and Pau Gasol to Houston. Well, looks like the deal has hit a bit of a snag. Here’s Yahoo!‘s latest report: “NBA commissioner David Stern has killed the New Orleans Hornets’ trade of Chris Paul after several owners complained about the league-owned team dealing the All-Star point guard to the Los Angeles Lakers, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. Some owners pushed Stern to demand that trade be nullified, and the Hornets be made to keep Paul on the roster for the foreseeable future, sources said. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was one of the most vocal in a chorus of owners irate with the belief that the five-month lockout had happened largely to stop big-market teams from leveraging small-market teams for star players pending free agency. All the players involved in the trade have been told to report to their teams for the start of training camp on Friday. Before Stern intervened, the Lakers had reached an agreement to acquire Paul in a three-team trade that would have cost them Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. Under terms of the deal, the Lakers would have sent Gasol to the Rockets. The Hornets would have received Odom, Rockets guards Kevin Martin and Goran Dragic and forward Luis Scola, league sources said.”

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  • shutup

    the only reason the nhl would be considered a better league is because they can fight, that fake tough guy sh!t dont fly, F a 5 game suspension, someone is coming to take your head off

  • http://vandelay-industries.org Art Vandelay

    The Lakers should thank God every day for the fact that David Stern prevented them from what would have been one of the worst trades in the franchise’s history.

  • Monkeyfntstc

    IT WAS FISHER!! DOESN’T WANT TO LOOSE HES STRATING POINT GUARD SPOT!!

  • AD

    kobe only has about 3 good years left this trade is stupid….

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  • http://www.slamonline.com Wayno

    Can someone please explain to me how this trade helps the Lakers? Unless Dwight Howard will be coming there to, trading one of the best big men in the league, and a VERY good SF for another gaurd who needs the ball in his hands all the time just doesn’t seem to make sense.

  • http://www.slamonline.com PapaDuck

    Well the letter that the Cavs owner wrote point to the fact that the Lakers will save 40 million over the next 3 years. That is alot of money for a team being taxed. People are crazy to think that the Lakers would not have found a way to strengthen their team between now and the start of next season. Even if they do not get Howard. They have 40 million to offer a good player in 2012 free agent class. Or they can give Howard that extra 40 million that they save by moving Gasol/Odom. Or they could give Orlando that 40 million in a sign and trade for Orlando. The Lakers money is LONG. This one trade does not make them better, but it give future free agents a brighter view of their team. A lot of young players have respect for Kobe so they would not mind playing along side him toward the end of his career. I think its a good futuristic move by the Lakers even if it weakens them in the near future. The Lakers won’t be able to win with their roster in three years, not with all these other teams getting younger and stronger

  • Justin

    Teddy, not too shockingly you’re basing your opinion on American interest. You’ll find that up here in Canada not a whole lot of people give a rat’s ass about NBA basketball. Yes there are less revenue dollars to go around but and yes hockey players get paid less, but like I said it’s because they have a hard cap. The NBA guys didn’t want that because they would have to (God forbid) get paid $7M or $8M instead. Oh the horror! The NHL has parity in their league too. You don’t see Alexander Ovechkin moaning because he wants to play with Sidney Crosby, maybe call up Steven Stamkos and Johnathan Toews to try and make some super team. And you know why? Because they aren’t spoiled biotches like they are in the NBA.

  • http://slamonline.com The Philosopher

    Well Jukai, the mentality that you and apparently the owners share agitates us lowly fans.
    Also, my main point back then was that Paul to the Lakers looked good. Other people thought it looked good, too.
    Yes, more powerful people think otherwise, but again, the lowly gentiles are agitated.
    Guess it does not matter, right?

  • Dub

    Why is the NHL comment embarrassing? Cuz all you idiots know that it’s true? It is a better run league and there is actually a lot of people that watch NHL, especially the east coast. Obviously no one in California doesn’t care about it, but that doesn’t mean everyone.

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