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Stern blocked the deal.

Wow... that's some heavy-handed, draconian BS right there. Where was Stern last season then when the same things were happening?

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

Apparently several owners were meeting over some unrelated issue when they heard about the Paul trade and threw a fit. They cried to Stern who then blocked the deal 'in the interest of the small market team'. What would you bet that those team owners crying werent the small market teams. More like the owners who feel they are contenders right now I would guess. Basically Stern has declared that he is helping the Hornets by making sure Paul stays put and the Hornets get nothing when he walks free next season. How can Stern now justify a different trade involving Paul to say.....the Knicks? He cant and therefore Paul looks to ba a Hornet one more year. Where was Robin Hood Stern when Cleveland and Minnesota were losing their one guy? (I know Lebron was a FA, just saying)

NBA is becoming more entertainment than competition. Maybe Stern should just tell us who he wants to have the trophy this season so I dont have to bother solving the mystery.

Last edited by buzzerbeatme at 12/9/2011 1:34:13 AM

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.

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

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...

Sure, if you isolate portions of what I said then it doesnt make sense. The post as a whole speaks of the league's trying to change the way the free agent and trade market works to avoid the 'superpowers' vs the 'nonames'. I also believe that what I said about this be a precedent has merit as well. The reason Stern opposed this was not that it was lopsided or unfair. To be honest, as a Lakers fan I am happy it fell through. Paul is great but the lakers post players would be.......Bynum. Ok, so lets say they get Howard, the still dont have a real PF. Bynum will miss the first 5 games for suspension, and probably 20 more to injury. Just leaves too many holes in the Lakers that they wont have the cash to fill, especially if they landed Howard. This veto was more about trying to save and salvage the Hornets than it was about the trade being unfair, or stupid as you put it.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7334694/nba-lingering-q...

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.