The 2013-14 NBA season

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norm wrote:

Lamar Odom on the radio now "L.A. is home...maybe I rubbed people wrong way w doing the show"


this guy is dumber than a box of rocks

The Los Angeles Lakers are nearing an agreement to acquire All-Star point guard Chris Paul in a three-team trade that will cost them Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

The Lakers are finalizing the trade with the New Orleans Hornets and Houston Rockets. Under the terms of the deal, the Lakers would send Gasol to the Rockets. The Hornets would receive Odom, Rockets guards Kevin Martin and Goran Dragic and forward Luis Scola, league sources said.

“It’s not finalized, but we’re close,” one front-office official involved in the negotiations said.

wow

norm

81 wrote:

wow

and we managed to keep bynum to trade for howard

christmas day has suddenly become interesting :P

JOEJOEJOE

81 wrote:

norm wrote:

Lamar Odom on the radio now "L.A. is home...maybe I rubbed people wrong way w doing the show"


this guy is dumber than a box of rocks

The Los Angeles Lakers are nearing an agreement to acquire All-Star point guard Chris Paul in a three-team trade that will cost them Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

The Lakers are finalizing the trade with the New Orleans Hornets and Houston Rockets. Under the terms of the deal, the Lakers would send Gasol to the Rockets. The Hornets would receive Odom, Rockets guards Kevin Martin and Goran Dragic and forward Luis Scola, league sources said.

“It’s not finalized, but we’re close,” one front-office official involved in the negotiations said.

wow

New E! series: The Big Easy Kardashians!

81

norm wrote:

81 wrote:

wow

and we managed to keep bynum to trade for howard

christmas day has suddenly become interesting :P

Not yet....you have no inside game now

South of Seattle

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

81 wrote:

norm wrote:

Lamar Odom on the radio now "L.A. is home...maybe I rubbed people wrong way w doing the show"


this guy is dumber than a box of rocks

The Los Angeles Lakers are nearing an agreement to acquire All-Star point guard Chris Paul in a three-team trade that will cost them Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

The Lakers are finalizing the trade with the New Orleans Hornets and Houston Rockets. Under the terms of the deal, the Lakers would send Gasol to the Rockets. The Hornets would receive Odom, Rockets guards Kevin Martin and Goran Dragic and forward Luis Scola, league sources said.

“It’s not finalized, but we’re close,” one front-office official involved in the negotiations said.

wow

New E! series: The Big Easy Kardashians!

I see a divorce in the near future!

norm

81 wrote:

norm wrote:

81 wrote:

wow

and we managed to keep bynum to trade for howard

christmas day has suddenly become interesting :P

Not yet....you have no inside game now

not until Okafor gets here (another rumor )

South of Seattle

As the great Lee Corso would say: "Not so fast my friend!"

The deal is on hold!

norm

so now the owners can just piss and moan if they don't like a trade? who gives a shit if the nba owns the team


if stern caves to this he will officially become the worst commissioner in sports history


and NO is getting like 30 players in return...this isn't like that lopsided a trade

tcaporale

They want Chris Paul on the team until they can sell it to somebody. If he's not there they probably wouldn't get as much as they would like for the team.

Hey, any way they can keep teams from stockpiling stars is fine with me. Nobody wants to watch the same teams exceed every year. Of course, I'm saying this as someone that hates the Lakers. If a Knicks trade got put on hold I'd probably be pissed.

Although I agree that the Lakers were giving up quite a bit for CP3 - Gasol, one of the league's premier power forwards, and Odom, a valuable scorer.

norm

https://twitter.com/#!/CP3/status/144962250854248448

tcaporale

Is he playing World of Warcraft?

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norm wrote:

https://twitter.com/#!/CP3/status/144962250854248448

I wrote that for him

norm

Phil Jackson called this on 12/29/10 about NBA owning Hornets: "When Chris says he has to be traded, how’s that going to go?"

http://lakers.ocregister.com/2010/12/29 ... ets/45858/

norm

xavier mcdaniel

maybe this is the owners paying him back for being so active in the player's association.

Newch91

norm wrote:

so now the owners can just piss and moan if they don't like a trade? who gives a shit if the nba owns the team


if stern caves to this he will officially become the worst commissioner in sports history


and NO is getting like 30 players in return...this isn't like that lopsided a trade

I thought he already was the worst commissioner in sports history. Roger Goodell must hate him now.

xavier mcdaniel

"Not true that owners killed the (3-team) deal. It wasn't even discussed at the Board meeting..." - That was an NBA PR guy telling writers that.

norm

https://twitter.com/#!/KevinDing/status ... 6955435008

xavier mcdaniel

norm wrote:

https://twitter.com/#!/KevinDing/status/144972556955435008

maybe owners did but told the league to say this to take the heat off those owners who were against it.

norm

NBA spokesman Tim Frank: "League office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons."


really? basketball reasons?

not curling reasons?

paddle tennis reason?

basketball reasons...profound!

xavier mcdaniel

norm wrote:

NBA spokesman Tim Frank: "League office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons."


really? basketball reasons?

not curling reasons?

paddle tennis reason?

basketball reasons...profound!

why don't you just say, we declined this trade because we didn't spend five months locking out players to have a small market team lose their best players to the big bad, Los Angeles Lakers. Oh, and we certainly aren't going to give an active union guy that satisfaction.

tcaporale

New Orleans is probably never going to get a better deal for CP3.

xavier mcdaniel

you can draw you own conclusions:

http://ken-berger.blogs.cbssports.com/m ... 3/33759917

Wobbie

norm wrote:

so now the owners can just piss and moan if they don't like a trade? who gives a shit if the nba owns the team


if stern caves to this he will officially become the worst commissioner in sports history


and NO is getting like 30 players in return...this isn't like that lopsided a trade

even a laker hater like myself has to agree with you, norm.

Newch91

Don't know how Dwight Howard deals are going but saw this on Twitter and laughed.

BREAKING: David Stern blocks Dwight Howard trade that hasn't even been proposed yet. For basketball reasons.

Don't know how norm does the just 1 tweet.

norm

imalive wrote:

norm wrote:

so now the owners can just piss and moan if they don't like a trade? who gives a shit if the nba owns the team


if stern caves to this he will officially become the worst commissioner in sports history


and NO is getting like 30 players in return...this isn't like that lopsided a trade

even a laker hater like myself has to agree with you, norm.

as a la times writer just said "It takes an awful lot for people to look at the Lakers as victims. But welcome to it."

dcfaithful

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

norm wrote:

NBA spokesman Tim Frank: "League office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons."


really? basketball reasons?

not curling reasons?

paddle tennis reason?

basketball reasons...profound!

why don't you just say, we declined this trade because we didn't spend five months locking out players to have a small market team lose their best players to the big bad, Los Angeles Lakers.

When i was hearing the rumors of this, I thought "well what the fuck was that lockout for other than determining who's money pile is bigger?"

Newch91

Another one from Twitter

Domino's just called and said David Stern cancelled my pizza order. Now what?

And another:

Breaking: David Stern warns #Lakers if they complain about Chris Paul trade cancellation, he'll make them take back Kwame Brown. #freeCP3

norm

https://twitter.com/#!/jwquick/status/1 ... 6416366592

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Ed Curry to the Heat