Paul to Lakers

[Brian in Mesa]

Put away your party paraphernalia. The party's over.

Bwa ha ha!

Yeah, I'm really broken hearted. We'll get something done. We'll get #17 soon enough.

 

[Gaddabout]

kibosh

Kaibosh is the Cajun version of kibosh. It means "rich white man who covers his backside when his fellow rich white men calls him on his attempt to use his unwanted entity to help his larger entity in TV ratings."

Fo shizzle. Look it up. Or don't. Preferably don't.

 

[Griffin]

The irony is that this wasn't really a good trade for the Lakers, unless they were also able to get Howard and shore up that frontline. Paul and Kobe would still have to share a single backcourt and then you would only have the perpetually-injured Bynum as your only real frontcourt threat. Had they not been able to trade for Howard, they would have taken a step back, imo. So, perhaps, the other owners had inadvertently saved the Lakers from themselves.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Yeah, I'm really broken hearted. We'll get something done. We'll get #17 soon enough.

i'm pretty sure this allows y'all to get Howard. I had no idea how Bynum alone was going to get him... even though I feared it would happen anyway.

but seriously, NBA owned franchises sending the best player in the league at his position to it's biggest/best franchise just smelled all kinds of foul.

 

[Superbone]

Kaibosh is the Cajun version of kibosh. It means "rich white man who covers his backside when his fellow rich white men calls him on his attempt to use his unwanted entity to help his larger entity in TV ratings."

Fo shizzle. Look it up. Or don't. Preferably don't.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

i'm pretty sure this allows y'all to get Howard. I had no idea how Bynum alone was going to get him... even though I feared it would happen anyway.

but seriously, NBA owned franchises sending the best player in the league at his position to it's biggest/best franchise just smelled all kinds of foul.

I agree.

Not discounting CP3's talent, but Howard is a more important piece to the Lakers' future. Especially if we can get Howard and keep other bigs like Odom or Gasol.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Kaibosh is the Cajun version of kibosh. It means "rich white man who covers his backside when his fellow rich white men calls him on his attempt to use his unwanted entity to help his larger entity in TV ratings."

Fo shizzle. Look it up. Or don't. Preferably don't.

 

[D-Dogg]

I'm sorry, but Pau is an All Star and LO is the current 6th man of the year. Acting like that was a bad package to get Paul is silly. Houston kicked in several players, and two picks.

Small market teams dictating where Chris Paul goes is pretty stupid...and I'd say the same thing if Paul was set to go to Boston for Ray Allen and Garnett. Chris Paul does not want to play for New Orleans. Three teams worked out a deal that moved him to one of the places he wanted to go. The Sarvers of the NBA stomped their feet and cried and now Paul is going to probably play for a team he doesn't want to (The Hornets), and the Lakers get Dwight Howard while keeping Lamar Odom or Pau Gasol.

And the small markets win that game...how?

 

[Mulli]

Bucher is saying that Pau didn't want to go to HOU.

 

[Mulli]

Wait, we are supposed to feel sorry for Chris Paul? Isn't he a free agent after this season anyway? So what, play out the string.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

I'm sorry, but Pau is an All Star and LO is the current 6th man of the year. Acting like that was a bad package to get Paul is silly. Houston kicked in several players, and two picks.

Small market teams dictating where Chris Paul goes is pretty stupid...and I'd say the same thing if Paul was set to go to Boston for Ray Allen and Garnett. Chris Paul does not want to play for New Orleans. Three teams worked out a deal that moved him to one of the places he wanted to go. The Sarvers of the NBA stomped their feet and cried and now Paul is going to probably play for a team he doesn't want to (The Hornets), and the Lakers get Dwight Howard while keeping Lamar Odom or Pau Gasol.

And the small markets win that game...how?

The guy who everyone is retweeting the heck out of and posting in here as their source said:

Several GM's were lauding the haul of players and the draft pick that Demps was able to get back for Chris Paul in the deal. Now what?

 

[D-Dogg]

Bucher is saying that Pau didn't want to go to HOU.

Would you? I sure wouldn't want to leave the Lakers for Houston.

When you are the shipped out, nobody cares. unless you have a no-trade clause. Pau doesn't.

But I don't see owners intervening because Pau doesn't want to go to Houston.

 

[Gaddabout]

NBA/Stern feeling bad. No rescinding the Louisiana Purchase. Hope y'all speak French. Or Mexican.

 

[D-Dogg]

Now what?

Sarver stomped his princess slippers and almost broke the glass. Turns out, they didn't fit him after all.

 

[Mulli]

Would you? I sure wouldn't want to leave the Lakers for Houston.

When you are the shipped out, nobody cares. unless you have a no-trade clause. Pau doesn't.

But I don't see owners intervening because Pau doesn't want to go to Houston.

Are you mad at me for posting that or something? I thought the trade was a fair one, Lakers 2nd and 3rd leading scorers, but the idea that the lakers could also get Howard for Bynum makes me glad for the veto.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I'm sorry, but Pau is an All Star and LO is the current 6th man of the year. Acting like that was a bad package to get Paul is silly. Houston kicked in several players, and two picks.

uh... therein lies the rub... the Hornets weren't going to get both of those guys.. and those guys are both older. you don't trade youth for guys in their thirties. That's not a good deal.

 

[Griffin]

and now Paul is going to probably play for a team he doesn't want to (The Hornets)

Wait, did he not sign a three-year guaranteed maximum extension to play for the Hornets? Did he think that he was signing that so that he can force his way onto a team he really wants to play for down the road? Are players not required to honor the contracts they sign?

Paul will be free to sign with any team he chooses next summer when he becomes an unrestricted free agent. He could even sign with the Lakers in theory, although only for a fraction of what he could make elsewhere. But that's a choice he has, if he is willing to take a serious paycut.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

you don't trade youth for guys in their thirties. That's not a good deal.

Holding onto youth for one last season and getting nothing for it is not a good deal either. A lot of deals seem odd but are dependant on contract status, etc. It's all business.

 

[D-Dogg]

Are you mad at me for posting that or something? I thought the trade was a fair one, Lakers 2nd and 3rd leading scorers, but the idea that the lakers could also get Howard for Bynum makes me glad for the veto.

I'm always mad at you.

 

[PDXChris]

Just heard that Pau may have blocked the trade now.

 

[Cheesebeef]

i do have to wonder what's going on up in Chi-town. I mean, it just seems like a no-brainer to me to trade Noah/Deng and picks for Howard and Turk. Seems like a deal where everyone wins. Orlando gets two young very good players one of which is a defensive dynamo at C who's not a doucebag like Bynum (and while being a little injury prone, it's not Noah's knees that continue to crumple like tin-foil).

Rose
Korver
Turk
Boozer
Howard

That team would murder people. Even Carlos Boozer would be good on that team as a legit third option with zero pressure put on him.

 

[Mulli]

uh... therein lies the rub... the Hornets weren't going to get both of those guys.. and those guys are both older. you don't trade youth for guys in their thirties. That's not a good deal.

Hornets would have received Odom, Kevin Martin, Goran Tragic )) and a first.

 

[D-Dogg]

Wait, did he not sign a three-year guaranteed maximum extension to play for the Hornets? Did he think that he was signing that so that he can force his way onto a team he really wants to play for down the road?

Yes he did, and no he didn't.

Are players not required to honor the contracts they sign?

No, no they aren't. Not if their GM trades them.

Paul will be free to sign with any team he chooses next summer when he becomes an unrestricted free agent. He could even sign with the Lakers in theory, although only for a fraction of what he could make elsewhere. But that's a choice he has, if he is willing to take a serious paycut.

Grapes are sour, eh?

 

[Cheesebeef]

Just heard that Pau may have blocked the trade now.

how is that possible?

 

[Mulli]

I'm always mad at you.

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