Stern block Chris Paul trade to Lakers

With any other NBA team, a trade would be subject to the owner's approval before it could be consummated. In this case, the NBA happens to own the team. So, from that narrow viewpoint, David Stern -- representing the Hornets' de facto "owner" -- has every right to tell his GM "not good enough."

Even if he's wrong.

The real problem here is the NBA owning the Hornets in the first place. That needs to be rectified ASAP, or you're going to continue to have a conflict of interest.

 

If Chris Paul winds up playing regularly in Staples Center and Dwight Howard doesn't, there will be riots on Fig well before the playoffs.

 

Simmons continues to do a nice job hammering this goddamn farce.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7348176/the-eighth-day-nba-christmas

 

Yes.

That was easy.

 

FWIW, Vecsey wrote today: "the Warriors (NOLA wants Monta Ellis, Andris Biedrins and rookie Klay Thompson)."

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/paul_of_confusion_wK1uko3V1atBTgNkbfmHzI#ixzz1gSp5UDUY

Hope that was not just to tease those of us on the Left Coast because I'd do that even if it was only for one season for the W's (we still cherish the '07 We Believe memories).

 

Does it seem odd that I just realized I went a couple of years totally forgetting Peter Vescey even exists? I seriously think more often about George, which would have been ridiculous to say in the 1990s.

 

It's called wishful thinking...

 

I don't know how they could. It's an auction. We all know what the winning bid was. If you were, say, Minnesota, and you know you bid more than what the Clippers eventually got Billups for ... wouldn't you say something? Cry foul?

Or are we suggesting that the league office called every NBA team, told them the Clippers were winning this damn thing whether you like it or not, so don't bother?

That would seem like too big a secret to keep.

 

...or if the league made sure that the Clippers were able to turn their bid in last, and dropped some serious hints about what the high bid was at the time.

 

Thank God Stern kept him away from a big market club like the Lakers.

 

It appears that this haul is better than what the first deal got them. And the Lakers got screwed, so there's that.