What is Stern doing?

[Alex_de_Large]

Why would he block the Paul trade? Now the Hornets will get absolutely nothing for him after this season. Why is it so important to control where players want to play? Can you imagine what would happen if MLB said No Angels, you can't have Pujols?

 

[TRRW#31]

I'm not going to hide the fact that I'm a Lakers fan. This is a league that complained that they lost 300 million dollars last season. Could it be that they have to many teams and teams in bad markets. They couldn't keep the hornets in charlotte, let them move to city that proved once they couldn't sustain a franchise and gave Charlotte another franchise. I don't think they know what they're doing.

p.s. I was on the side of Dan Gilbert when the whole lebron thing happened but now that he went and complained to stern about the trade. I hope his teams never win a championship.

 

[Aces_Full]

Really looking at the deal, it seems fair for all 3 teams involved. It's not like the laker's didn't have to give anything up.

 

[Texdoc]

1 - They will still get plenty for CP3. Only this deal was vetoed. They will trade him elsewhere.

2 - The new CBA was theoretically designed to help the small (money losing) markets to become more competitive with the large profitable ones. IOW, eliminate crap like Miami pulled last year where players can just all decide to play on one team & dominate. Lakers are already a very strong & profitable franchise, etc.

If I was Stern, I woulda done the same thing.

HOOK 'EM,
Texdoc

 

[Horns11]

It was a bush-league overreaction to the trade, and payback for the Memphis - Gasol deal from four years ago.

There's nothing in the bylaws that says "getting four decent role players in exchange for a superstar is detrimental to a small market team." If anything, Houston would be the one who has more to lose with guys like Martin leaving.

I also think there must have been something in the works with the other $9 million the Lakers have stashed away. Maybe making a move for another big guy if both Pau and Lamar left, so it would be another "Big 3" scenario. The Lakers haven't had a quality PG in years, so I'm not sure why the front office was so quick to jump on the unfair bandwagon.

 

[Statalyzer]

The problem, I believe, had something to do with the fact that the league is running the Hornets.

 

[Texdoc]

But not the Mavericks.

Lamar Odom - COME ON DOWN !!!!

HOOK 'EM,
Texdoc

 

[Horns11]

They'll have no choice but to veto every single trade that involves CP3 now, due to sheer idiocy.

And if they allow one, expect the owners of teams like the Knicks, Lakers, Celtics, etc. throw a fit.

 

[Joe Fan]

The Rockets' side is none too happy with what happened here, even dropping unsourced quotes to the local reporter that Stern is a big fat liar. The Rockets' GM, an MIT grad, even hired an attorney.

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[Horns11]

It was a ******** move to keep the books lower for New Orleans at the cost of competitiveness. And to get Griffin someone to lob him the ball in the half court offense.

The Lakers are probably going to implode this year with no PG and no bench.

 

[Joe Fan]

Rockets sign Dalembert at center.
Blocks shots and rebounds well. Pretty horrible offense.

I say this team, as now made up, likely 6-8 seed. And good bye lottery pick.

 

[mcbrett]

Stern absolutely did the right thing. The original Laker offer was as balanced as the trade that gave them Gasol for nothing. Secondly- as "owner" of the Hornets he had every right to veto a horrible trade that sent a young all star in exchange for mediocre, older players.

He proved there was no conspiracy theory involved, as some suggested, by approving the Clipper trade which was a bit better for the Hornets only days later.

The only thing I agree with above is that the NBA has watered itself down with too many teams- they could let the Hornets disappear, along with the Grizz and Raptors- maybe the Kings too- and the league would be better for it. This will never happen though. Anyways- Stern did the right thing on behalf of a team he has to represent as a GM until the NBA finds an owner.

 

[IndyHorn]

In my view the NBA has actually taken a step back from the ledge of having to ship Lebron and a franchise to Beijing to find anyone who cares about the league. However,this latest craze wherein superstars bond and play together in bachelor/business friendly cities, does threaten the existence of the league as now designed. Maybe the players don't see if the league does have a bunch of perennial also ran teams that fold in towns like Indianapolis, Sacramento, Cleveland, Detroit, etc.- it would not be great for the average player. Then again, maybe superstars don't care if the less talented need to head to Istanbul to get a paycheck? In any case, revenue sharing and a hard-lined salary cap will fix the ship and move the NBA towards the NFL style balance. The good news for Stern is the also rans always have the voting majority in owner forums. So Stern and crew decide if the NBA improves over time or slides into further irrelevance leading to league death.