Lakers trade may be challenged by owners?

[LarBrd33]

"RicBucher Ric Bucher
Reports are owners squashed Hou-LA-NO deal, citing conflict of interest for NBA-owned NO. But sources say Pau didn't want to go to Hou, too."

Does Pau Gasol have any no-trade clause?... veto power at all? 

[barefacedmonk]

What if the Lakers now try to pull off a trade with Houston?

Pau Gasol for Scola, Kevin Martin, Dragic and 2012 first (from Knicks).

Will this be vetoed?

[lon3lytoaster]

Makes complete sense. The NBA (Aka, all 30 owners as a whole) own the Hornets and foot all their bills.

They didn't have any luck selling that team with Chris Paul. With the package they were getting, there wasn't any cap relief, and not a single marketable player going to them.

What's better to potential buyers? Aging NBA middle men, or younger, marketable prospects?

I guarantee you Rondo for Paul isn't vetoed.

well if it wouldnt have been before, it would be now.  I do agree with you though.

Imagine the uproar around the league if the NBA kills one deal to the Lakers and then turns around and lets a deal going to the Lakers biggest historical and current rival stand.

I mean, I dont have a problem with it, but I could imagine some other folks might be a little peeved 

I don't know, man. Rondo has been marketed by the NBA to a national audience already. And been marketed by his personal sponsors. He's not quite a household name, but surely more so than Odom, Scola or Dragic.

So, I guess if the Hornets GM did accept one of our proposed offers, it could be vetoed, but I think the NBA would have a harder time justifying it.

[Lord of Mikawa]

This is about the only time I'll post the Lakers Blog up here on ours, but I couldn't resist.

http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/

 

Talk about outright anger. Calling the NBA Commissioner a monkey is a little much lol.

[lon3lytoaster]

"RicBucher Ric Bucher
Reports are owners squashed Hou-LA-NO deal, citing conflict of interest for NBA-owned NO. But sources say Pau didn't want to go to Hou, too."

Does Pau Gasol have any no-trade clause?... veto power at all? 

Nope, just a kicker. Not sure why he'd turn down the trade, given the incentive and already owning two rings.

[nickagneta]

Makes complete sense. The NBA (Aka, all 30 owners as a whole) own the Hornets and foot all their bills.

They didn't have any luck selling that team with Chris Paul. With the package they were getting, there wasn't any cap relief, and not a single marketable player going to them.

What's better to potential buyers? Aging NBA middle men, or younger, marketable prospects?

I guarantee you Rondo for Paul isn't vetoed.

well if it wouldnt have been before, it would be now.  I do agree with you though.

Imagine the uproar around the league if the NBA kills one deal to the Lakers and then turns around and lets a deal going to the Lakers biggest historical and current rival stand.

I mean, I dont have a problem with it, but I could imagine some other folks might be a little peeved 

I don't know, man. Rondo has been marketed by the NBA to a national audience already. And been marketed by his personal sponsors. He's not quite a household name, but surely more so than Odom, Scola or Dragic.

So, I guess if the Hornets GM did accept one of our proposed offers, it could be vetoed, but I think the NBA would have a harder time justifying it.

Rondo is not more well known than Lamar Kardashian...no way!!!

[greenpride32]

So would a CP3 to Boston deal get nixed as well?

[lon3lytoaster]

Makes complete sense. The NBA (Aka, all 30 owners as a whole) own the Hornets and foot all their bills.

They didn't have any luck selling that team with Chris Paul. With the package they were getting, there wasn't any cap relief, and not a single marketable player going to them.

What's better to potential buyers? Aging NBA middle men, or younger, marketable prospects?

I guarantee you Rondo for Paul isn't vetoed.

well if it wouldnt have been before, it would be now.  I do agree with you though.

Imagine the uproar around the league if the NBA kills one deal to the Lakers and then turns around and lets a deal going to the Lakers biggest historical and current rival stand.

I mean, I dont have a problem with it, but I could imagine some other folks might be a little peeved 

I don't know, man. Rondo has been marketed by the NBA to a national audience already. And been marketed by his personal sponsors. He's not quite a household name, but surely more so than Odom, Scola or Dragic.

So, I guess if the Hornets GM did accept one of our proposed offers, it could be vetoed, but I think the NBA would have a harder time justifying it.

Rondo is not more well known than Lamar Kardashian...no way!!!

But would he still be Lamar Kardashian if he was forced to relocate to New Orleans?

[Who]

I don't think Rondo, or anyone other player linked to New Orleans over the past few days, is a big enough star to markedly change the price of the team. There only a handful of guys in the league who are capable of doing that and nobody is offering any one of them for C.Paul.

I also fail to see how keeping C.Paul so that he can leave in 7-8 months time for nothing in return is in the Hornets best interests. Both competitively and/or in terms of selling the team.

I think the owners, as a whole, (1) just didn't like the trade package and didn't think it was fair value for Chris Paul ... which it's not.

But you are not going to get fair value for Chris Paul. You are going to get cents on the dime.

And, (2) more importantly, are being petty. They don't want to see the Lakers get another big name and build another title contender. They want to doing whatever they can to stop that.

[BadNewsBarnes]

So would a CP3 to Boston deal get nixed as well?

I was wondering the same thing.  It definitely would now.  But would the league had killed it if we did either the 3-way deal with Indy or our own package?

[bdm860]

There's a huge conspiracy going on here, and I think this goes much, much deeper than Stern.

I think the E! Network, the Kardashian's, and all the media tabloids are behind the veto in order to keep Khloe in LA.

[Who]

"RicBucher Ric Bucher
Reports are owners squashed Hou-LA-NO deal, citing conflict of interest for NBA-owned NO. But sources say Pau didn't want to go to Hou, too."

Does Pau Gasol have any no-trade clause?... veto power at all? 

Pau will behave himself. He'll go where he is told and do what he is told.

Houston would have just needed to stay strong and he'd have accepted the situation. It's a non-issue so long as Houston doesn't make it an issue by over-reacting to Pau's initial unhappiness.

[manl_lui]

wow my head is spinning now?

[Redz]

They should have canceled the stupid season. The league is seriously messed up.

[lon3lytoaster]

In other news, Reggie Evans to Chris Paul via Twitter (Following his WoW.) ... "lol."

Brilliant Reggie! Please sign with us hahahaa