THE CLIPPER DEAL:
Clippers get: Chris Paul
Hornets get: Eric Gordon, center Chris Kaman, forward Al-Farouq Aminu and the Minnesota Timberwolves’ unprotected first-round pick.
THE LAKER DEAL:
Lakers get: Chris Paul
Hornets get: Odom, Scola, Martin, Dragic, and the Knicks 1st rounder in 2012
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I'm stunned that commissioner Stern is allowed to get away with this. The Laker deal is way better than the Clipper deal. I guess small-market teams are just tired of having the Lakers getting good deals.
I mean, Gordon and Kaman over Odom and Scola? And Al-Farouq Aminu over Martin and Dragic?
Plus, the Hornets already have a center in Okafor, so why do they need Kaman?
The Lakers have been robbed and royally screwed!
mike t.
you cant be serious.
ReplyDeleteGordon is a young stud. Aminu is young and talented. Kaman has 13 million GOING OFF THE BOOKS, thats why they need him. The draft pick is unprotected and the wolves are looking like one of the worst teams in the NBA.
The trade is better in every way except maybe the Hornets would have won 10 more games this year. After that theyre stuck with declining expensive players.
mb, thanks for commenting:
ReplyDeleteWith the Laker deal the Hornets got a starting line-up. Come on, man Al-Farouq Aminu over Martin and Dragic? Al-Farouq averaged like 6 points per game and Martin averaged 23 points.
Give me a break!
mike t.
People can debate which deal is better but the fact is when the NBA killed the original Lakers deal it screwed the Lakers and made us lose Odom. It might have also messed up the potential Howard deal because he would have loved to play with Paul. Now even if we wanted to stick with our same team we cannot we are currently worse than last year. The NBA making a trade is a TOTAL conflict of interest and I can't believe nobody can do anything about it!
ReplyDeletereg,
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting.
Agreed. This is stunning. The league really screwed the Lakers real good here.
All I can say is: wow!
mike t.
Ok if you look at it as in what line up u want now yeah the lakers might be a better deal but if you look at it from a team that has no money and no owners, then they got everything they want in the clippers deal. They got young inexpensive talent still in their elc deals, an expiring contract and a potential top 3 draft pick. Lakers deal they would got 3 starting vets who are all turning 30 or already 30 with large salaries and a first rounder that will probably be out of the lottery. So knowing all that, plus i think the hornets arnt going to win championships anytime soon. i think the nba made the best deal for the team. Gotta think of it this way if u where the owners of the lakers, what would u do, go after the laker deal that will make u a competitive team for 2-3 years then have to rebuild or take the clippers deal where u have a chance to be competitive now but real good in 2-3 years. I personally would take the ladder. This is coming from a raptor fan, if i had a chance to do this deal for my team i would take the clippers deal no question asked.
ReplyDeletejuuj,
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting.
I hear you, but I thought that the objective was to win. This deal for Paul won't make the Hornets a winner.
I just think the Lakers got screwed.
mike t.
Yeah again I think people will debate the deals. The Lakers deal was very good I think...basically gave the Hornets a new team. The Clippers deal has Gordon and that pick, the rest is crap. But besides that the point is Lakers/Hornets had a deal and NBA called it off. Talk about tampering!!! Just don't see how this can be allowed??? Thing is if NBA was taking control they should have done so from the start, and not allowed all of the involved players (Odom, etc.) to be hurt. Ok I'm a Lakers fan but let's talk Houston here, they get no Gasol, no Nene, no Marc Gasol...they got screwed too! I'm sure their strategy would have been different if they knew NBA would do what it did. Now Lakers are gonna have to go all-in for Howard by trading Bynum and Gasol and hopefully Mitch has something up his sleeve!
ReplyDeletereg,
ReplyDeleteI hear you, man. This has screwed the Lakers in so many ways. Then the Lakers made things worse by trading Odom and left themselves holding an empty bag.
I don't see how the Lakers get out of this bad situation without rebuilding. Unless they pull off some type stunner.
mike t.
Yeah and they've only got a few days to do it!
ReplyDeleteI think the nba wants the hornets to win but i think they want them to win in 2-3 years when the team is moved(imho i think they will) yes i agree they handcuffed alot of team involved because of what stern did but like i said in 2-3 years odom, scola, martin will be in their 30+ and the hornets will have nothing from this trade if it was with lakers, now they will have a young up and coming team so i feel for all the lakers fans cuz i would be pissed to if stern did it to my raptors but i can see what they are trying to do.
ReplyDeletejuuj,
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's basically it. What Stern did to Laker fans is stunning.
He put us in a bad situation with Odom and we see what became of that. I just don't see how this turns out well for the Lakers.
mike t.
The NBA is now officially a joke league. I don't care if Lakers got screwed, or why they got screwed, or who won and who lost. What I care about is that the league meddled with an accepted trade process under the auspices of being some sort of socialist "collective owners" of a small market franchise, after they assured us (the fans) that they would not wield that power. They claim to act in the best interest of the Hornets after they promised us that they would leave that to the GM of the Hornets. Phil Jackson called them out at the time and got fined for it, but he was right. Its the WWF/WWE.
ReplyDeleteLalaland,
ReplyDeleteThank you for commenting.
I must confess that I agree that the league is dangerously close to being nothing more than a staged form of entertainment.
Commissioner Stern has made a mockery of the power he holds.
I'm not a big Kobe Bryant fan, but this stinks through and through.
mike t.
I bet the Hornets coach prefers the Lakers deal. But the Clipper deal is better for the Hornets, since the draft pick gives them a chance to acquire a franchise player.
ReplyDeleteThe Stern debacle is another subject all together. He yielded the power of ownership, and by doing that he should be forced to relinquish his power as commissioner, since he can longer be seen as objective.
759c,
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
Thanks for commenting.
mike t.