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Thoughts on the league blocking the Chris Paul deal

Loggrad98 you misspelled know. It's not spelled "now". Just thought I'd nitpick and point that out since you like to spell check me.
 
orangello said:
It would be tough but the Lakers would have no depth and in 3 years as the Jazz are peaking, the Lakers would be one superstar short but still have his money on the books. I want this trade to happen.
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Utah still has a mess of a roster. The idea that they are well on their way to contention is worth a smirk, but little else.

So far as market analysis, Utah actually blew up the Boozer-Williams Era a season too early: right as the Spurs got way too much mileage, and the Lakers were punch-drunk, Utah was "rebuilding".

From a matchup perspective, Utah would have been in great shape against any other team in the West.

Too bad.
 
the rift between the owners (obvious in the labor negotiations) was bound to surface at some point. Who knew it would be so quickly.

Personally, I think this is pure comedy: people crying in LA; a league-owned team (which is league-owned because of poor NBA management vis-a-vis expansion) as a stage for internal dissent; Laker players showing up to camp knowing they're not wanted; lolz

As far as I'm concerned, the NBA can continue to shoot itself in the foot during this labor deal. Until there is equal revenue sharing and a harder cap, then I think the dirty laundry should wave for all.
 
Trades do not occur in a vacuum. There was obviously another deal in the works to upgrade LA after the loss of Odom and Gasol. Maybe not Howard; but something.

As for the loss of these players - right now people know the motivated and productive Lamar Odom. That's because Phil Jackson put him in a situaution where he can succeed. They forgot about the unmotivated, inconsistent Odom that would shoot The Clippers out of games, and show up on D once every other game. If he was traded back to a fair to middling team, I have no doubt he'd go back to the way he was.

The trade just "looks" bad. And for every talking head protesting the NBA right now for shooting down this deal, there would be ten of them saying how nothing has changed in terms of team parity with the new CBA if this trade went through.
 
Since when was the owner of the team not allowed to have input on trades?

Much ado about ****ing nothing. And a good nothing at that.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
How is this the league doing the right thing? Paul is either going to LA in a trade or going to NYC on his own free will. It would be in everyone's best interest to let the Hornets get some pieces back.
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It would be in everyone's best interest if one team from each conference was contracted. That's the #1 thing here. THE NBA OWNS A TEAM BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD BUY.

Change the New Orleans Hornets to the Seattle Supersonics and sell (there will be a bidder), axe the Timberwolves and Bobcats. Or something.
 
NUMBERICA said:
It would be in everyone's best interest if one team from each division was contracted. That's the #1 thing here. THE NBA OWNS A TEAM BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD BUY.

Change the New Orleans Hornets to the Seattle Supersonics and sell (there will be a bidder), axe the Timberwolves and Bobcats. Or something.
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Go back to 4 divisions and axe 2 teams from each conference. This idea has been debated here before. It would help parity since it would increase the overall level of talent/team in the league.

Easy criteria too. Axe the least profitable team, and the historically least successful team (in terms of overall record for the life of the franchise).
 
candrew said:
Trades do not occur in a vacuum. There was obviously another deal in the works to upgrade LA after the loss of Odom and Gasol. Maybe not Howard; but something.

As for the loss of these players - right now people know the motivated and productive Lamar Odom. That's because Phil Jackson put him in a situaution where he can succeed. They forgot about the unmotivated, inconsistent Odom that would shoot The Clippers out of games, and show up on D once every other game. If he was traded back to a fair to middling team, I have no doubt he'd go back to the way he was.

The trade just "looks" bad. And for every talking head protesting the NBA right now for shooting down this deal, there would be ten of them saying how nothing has changed in terms of team parity with the new CBA if this trade went through.
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The only asset the Lakers have left is Bynum so I guess they could have traded him to get two or three big guys, but things were looking ugly on the Laker frontline.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Go back to 4 divisions and axe 2 teams from each conference. This idea has been debated here before. It would help parity since it would increase the overall level of talent/team in the league.
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Who would the other two be? If not careful the Jazz could be on that list.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Okay, you still can't prevent it. It's the best possible deal the Hornets are going to get.
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No, it is not. They were getting no rebuilding pieces at all. They weren't even going to get Gasol, Houston was. That's why Stern ultimately stopped it. How would you feel about getting Kevin Martin and Lamar Kardashian for DWill?
 
I'd like to see them axe two teams and explore a 3-conference, 6-division format (Western, Mid-Western, Eastern conferences). Then, I'd like to see a playoff format where the best 16 teams qualify, regardless of conference.

(Min and NO gone; Jordan can keep his Bobcats)
 
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