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This article with 5 different analysts point of view on the veto says what I think better than I can articulate in the space provided

Last edited by buzzerbeatme at 12/9/2011 4:32:23 AM

Dan Gilbert's one of those people who, if he died, I wouldn't necessarily be sad

Garnett and Allen to Boston? no problem. LeBron and Bosh to Miami? Go for it. Paul to the Lakers? FOUL!

stern own the hornets right now. Why they had to accept every deal they get offered now. I doubt the NBa owns the other teams too.

Ummm... most pointedly: he does not own the Hornets. The NBA does. And this issue had absolutely nothing to do with "ownership". He vetoed it as league commissioner.
And what are you talking about with " Why they had to accept every deal they get offered now"? I honestly have no idea.

29 NBA owners owns the Hornets, geez, what are you talking about? Cuban already bashed NBA when Thornton deal was made and he actually made sense.
The whole situation was ugly, but trade went too fast and it was stupid. I think Hornets and Lakers both knew they need to pass commissioner and NBA owners before pull the trigger...

So? Point? For them to have to operate under different rules would require a re-writing of either the NBA constitution or by-laws. Never happened. They are "supposed" to operate the same as any other franchise. They *are not* subject to a different set of rules. And in what way was the trade "stupid"? And when else have you seen the League Commissioner (hell, of any main US sport!) veto a trade?

Do not start me on Cuban. Guy's a douche. Used to be a fan... but now? He chases Chris Paul - that'd be fine. Yet doesn't get him and whines like a stuck piggie!

And for the record: like buzzerbeatme, I am a lakerfan, and like buzzerbeatme - I did not particularly care for this trade... but the way Stern acted was flat-out wrong.

Very well said.

Stern set it up so the Hornets would have a management staff the operated as any other staff in the NBA. It was important to seperate the running of the team from the league offices and avoid conflict of interest. Stern then turns around and overides the very seperation he deemed necesary for fiscal reasons related to the other 29 actually owned teams. It is plain and simple collusion, and that is bad for those that dont get what actually just happened to the NBA.