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Chris Paul Trade Discussion

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C47 Newbie

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WOJ RUMOR:

Lamar not involved in new deal?!

If that's true you might as well start printing D12 jerseys now...

WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski

Y! Sources: In revised deal submitted to NBA, Chris Paul, Pau Gasol, Kevin Martin, Scola still slated to change teams. tinyurl.com/chtr2k5

No mention of Lamar...if Mitch Kupchak seriously pulled that off and kept Bynum and Lamar to use to get Howard....OMG

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The Lakers, Houston Rockets and New Orleans Hornets have resubmitted a Chris Paul-to-the-Lakers trade proposal to the NBA office, a person with knowledge of the situation said Saturday.

The deal is "still on life support, even though people tried to kill it," according to the source.

The Lakers had agreed to send Pau Gasol to Houston and Lamar Odom to New Orleans as part of the original trade Thursday. The trade was blocked by the NBA. Houston's Luis Scola, Kevin Martin and Goran Dragic and a first-round pick were also traded to New Orleans.

The NBA, which purchased the Hornets last December, told the franchise it needed to get younger players in the trade. Odom is 32, Scola is 31 and Martin is 28. Dragic, 25, has been a reserve guard in his relatively brief NBA career.

Meanwhile, Odom skipped practice for a second consecutive day but was at the Lakers' training facility for an annual physical. Gasol was also at the training facility. It was unclear if he was practicing.

Regardless of whether the Paul trade collapses again, the Lakers have been designated one of three teams allowed to talk to Dwight Howard's agent about a possible trade. Howard and Paul can both become free agents in July, and their teams are trying to work out trades instead of losing the perennial all-stars for nothing after the season.

Howard's agent also has permission to talk to New Jersey and Dallas. If the revised Paul trade is accepted, and the Lakers lose Gasol and Odom, their main trade asset with Orlando will by 24-year-old Andrew Bynum.

-- Mike Bresnahan

http://lakersblog.latimes.com/lakersblog/

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FML, deal is dead according to Stein. Lakers pulled out (probably because Stern kept asking for impossible pieces to be included). This deal should have gone through easily Thursday, I really hope the NBAPA pursues legal action against that Weasel Stern....

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FML' date=' deal is dead according to Stein. Lakers pulled out (probably because Stern kept asking for impossible pieces to be included). This deal should have gone through easily Thursday, I really hope the NBAPA pursues legal action against that Weasel Stern....[/quote']

Fug it, hope CP3 waits it out a year so he can go to NY and Stern gets nothing for him.

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Sad David Stern, Sad...

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_lakers_out_of_paul_trade_talks_121011

The NBA has taken complete control of the Hornets front office and left general manager Dell Demps and coach Monty Williams without a deal that they wanted to make for Paul. The Hornets have been left in an impossible predicament by commissioner David Stern, who has positioned himself as basketball czar of the Hornets.

In his desire to keep the All-Star point guard on the roster to maximize the league’s selling price of the team to potential owners, Stern has shot down two deals to send Paul to the Lakers. Now, teams are leery of entering into trade talks for Paul with the Hornets basketball executives, and this could collectively cripple the franchise’s ability to get maximum value for Paul.

The Hornets front office and coaching staff is beyond devastated over this deal falling apart on Saturday night. They’re three days into training camp, and they don’t have a legitimate NBA team to put on the floor.

As a rival league executive told Yahoo! Sports on Saturday night about the possibility of getting involved in the derby for Paul now: “My initial reaction is, ‘Who wants to go through that headache with the NBA playing God?’ You want to do a deal. New Orleans’ front office wants to do a deal. And the third party – the NBA – says you can do it? Should I call Stern and see if they’re going to waive Patrick Ewing Jr., since he’s only partially guaranteed? ”

Any acquiring owner would do his due diligence and know that chris paul is not going to be there anyway... smh...I am starting to think once Paul leaves in the summer, or gets traded to a team for much less, that team maybe contracted.

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Any acquiring owner would do his due diligence and know that chris paul is not going to be there anyway... smh...I am starting to think once Paul leaves in the summer, or gets traded to a team for much less, that team maybe contracted.

This seems like the only possible explanation. The first trade was fair and set NO up to be a better team than it is now. They'd lack a superstar but have a shot at the playoffs. If I'm a potential owner I'd rather have that than know my best player is going to be gone after the season and be left with a roster that makes the Bobcats look like an all star team.

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