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son seriously ... do you HONESTLY believe that the Hornets will trade Chris Paul? all jokes aside. do you honestly think that?
Steve Nash has faced the Spurs five times in the playoffs. His teams lost all five series.
son seriously ... do you HONESTLY believe that the Hornets will trade Chris Paul? all jokes aside. do you honestly think that?
I can see them doing it if he refuses to sign an extension bc the team around him is bad.
son Chandler was also constantly hurt and needed surgery (which he recently just got). So God only knows what Chandler will show up next season after surgery ... 8 and 8 Chandler or 12 and 11 Chandler. He is not worth the $11M a year he is getting now.
son he has already signed the extension last season. His new contract kicks in next year. He has the same length contract that guys like Lebron and Wade have. 3 year deal with a 4th year option ... he will be able to opt out after his 7th year in the NBA.
That trade wouldn't make the Rockets any better for next season. In fact I'm pretty sure they wouldn't even make the playoffs.
Wow, so Devin Harris and Steve Nash were the two best PGs in the League from 2000-08? If Devin Harris is so good, how come the Nets won 33 games and couldnt make the playoffs in the East? I guess the Mavs should've traded Dirk and kept the second-coming of Allen Iverson: another undersized combo guard that can do one thing (take his man off the dribble) and one thing only.
As for Nash, explain to me how the Mavs let him walk for nothing and GOT BETTER. Explain to me how a team with Steve Nash attempting to "guard" Tony Parker ever gets past the Spurs in the playoffs.
The Mavs and Spurs met twice in the playoffs with Nash as our starter. We lost both of those series. We've met twice without him and won both of those series. Some people would like to argue that Nash would've made a difference against Miami and Golden State, but with Nash, the Mavs would've never advanced that far against the Heat. And assuming we beat Golden State, we would've lost to the Spurs in the Conference Finals.
Get a clue.
at you thinking of devin harris first. i forgot about that one, thanks for bringing it up.
actually to be fair, cuban wasn't the owner then. i should have directed my comments towards the mavericks organization.
Cuban didn't trade Jason Kidd away, Frank Zaccanelli did. I fail to see how Cuban was "stupid" for parting with him. And I'm just fine with how that trade turned out; ask the Colangelos how well trading Michael Finley for Kidd worked out for them.
Listen, you amuse me as a person. I would not wish bad things on you, so take this as a legitimate opinion and not as me trying to act like a bag.
The cold hard truth is the Hornets will do everything in thier power to retain Chris Paul, but if they can't find ways to reduce salary, ie dump Chandler and Peja, then you need to prepare yourself to lose Paul.
Rumors exist for a reason. Sure some are outlandish and come from fan boards, but it is no secret the Hornets are reeling from the dumb contracts they took on. If I were you I would pray the Pistons want Chandler as a gift over the summer because if not it could ugly in New Orleans. I didn't write this, this is from ESPN, and this isnt the first "rumor" regarding this issue either.
Thier financial mismanagement is staggering. Even if they don't trade him, there is no way the Hornets get any better. They have no money to spend on free agents, no young up and coming rookies. They have Chris Paul and a bunch of aging over paid guys who are only going to get worse as time goes on. There is a huge chance that Paul gets frustrated and eventually demands a trade.
So yes, in my opinion, it is very possible Paul gets moved.
Simmons is smoking a lot of grass recently
son my god you are clueless, but it is comical at the same time.
I still get mad at that trade. Finley/Cassell/filler for Kidd/filler. Kidd never even led the Suns far in the playoffs, losing every series in the first round that he started, even when they were the higher ranked team holding homecourt. The only playoff series the Suns ever won during Kidd's tenure in Phoenix came when he was out with a broken leg, with a unretired KJ manning point and with Duncan missing from their opponant.
Until this past season, Kidd was 0-for vs. Western Conference playoff teams, and his win-loss record vs. them was pretty bad.
I'm not saying this to diminish the player. He was a great player. However, he just couldn't make it work for his teams against the best compe ion at the time, I.E.: THE WEST.
Had Jerry Colangelo been patient, he was started to amass a large bit of young talent. With his ability to find quality players middle-to-late in the first round (even into the later rounds, note Jeff Hornacek, Jayson Williams - yes him - Steve Kerr and Stephen Jackson - yes him), had they just stood pat a bit, not traded a handful of 1sts for a 6-month rental of McDyess, I just shake my head at the possibilities.
Trading Kidd was not a bad thing for the Mavericks. It basically net them Finley and Bradley (via Cassell), two foundational pieces of their recent success.
lars is delusional, he's just trying to convince himself that the hornets would do it.
the hornets are not trading away the player that makes them money. they will explore packaging david west with their bad contracts first.
you cant separate Simmons from bias
Bad deal for the Rockets.
CP3 just isn't a winner.
Lost to a 7th seed in NCAA Tournament
Punched Julius Hodge in the nuts
Let Jannero ing Pargo take 14 4th quarter shots.
Shot 40% against the Nuggets with more fall downs and turnovers than field goal attempts.
Remember a few years ago when we were tricked into thinking Steve Nash was a top 5-10 basketball player in the world? Same deal here.
CP3 only looks good because his team mates are so bad
lol 121-63
Take Scola and Battier off the table, also take Peja off, and call it a deal...Hornets are in financial troubles, while broadcasting the game, can't remember who it was exactly, announcers stated that hornets were in trouble b/c New Orleans is not big enough for two professional sports teams, most people are invested in the saints, and that the hornets maybe the next Seattle Sonics
If the Hornets actually ever pursued this, they would make taking Peja and Posey's contracts conditional on getting CP3 too. That's the whole point, the baby and bathwater are a package deal.
Alright, the only way this happens is if the Hornets are on the verge of insolvency and Paul makes it clear that he will leave. I am unaware that either of these are the case. I would trade most NBA players for Chris Paul. There are only a few more valuable.
Damn... shouldn't Houston be willing to throw in their first round picks for a few years, too?
The Minnesota Vikings once traded a whole team for Herschel Walker. The New Orleans Saints traded a whole team for Ricky Williams. Neither of those worked out too well - except for the team getting all the players.
CP3 and Yao together has some promise, but you'd have to have some guarantee that Yao could finish a season healthy. And you'd still have to have other players. Especially since Yao can't run the floor even when he is healthy. Paul needs someone to pass to, or the other team is going to camp in the paint - which makes it tough to get the Ball to Yao, and tough for Paul to drive.
Letting go of Brooks, Landry, Scola, and Battier? I don't think so. Stojakovic isn't going to win a championship for them. Tyson Chandler failed a physical near the end of the the season. And Posey is a good player, but he got terribly over-rated after that season in Boston. He's a career 9 point 5 rebound guy, and that's in almost 30 minutes per game. His numbers in any of the last 3 seasons aren't as good as Finley's. (When Finley was younger, it wouldn't even be fair to compare them.)
Brooks, Landry, Scola, and Battier? That just doesn't want to sink into my brain. It's too late for April Fool's Day, so there has to be some other explanation.
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