And small market teams want the Lakers to contribute more in revenue sharing?

[Giuseppe]

I know, what a miserable hump!

But, he's got a cute ass.

[TDMVPDPOY]

without cp3 and dwest on the books, the hornets payroll is below 20m

why would the other 29 owners trade cp3 for lakers/rockets trash and push up that team payroll to 50-55m? thats about 2m each for each owner, hence the extra 15-20m stake they have in the team just to keep it afloat and their own team commitments...

laker/rocket only gains from this trade, while the hornets take up the bad contracts, you say they are gettin talent worth...where is the talent? if the talent was so good how come the rockets didnt make the playoffs last season, gettin gasol is like turning ur team into the memphis gasol team...hornets buying 2 years of mediocrity, when they can just let cp3 and west walk and get no trash in return, rebuild through draft....hence there are better offers out there.

lol rockets still overrating there hole roster

[Killakobe81]

Thing is I was not even 100% sold on the deal we trading two bigs for a small, though excellent PG with a bum knee...so the deal doesnt dissapoint me that much.

What DOES bother me is ...

1. What this does to the fragile psyches of Pau and Odom
2. what does this do to Brown being able to get the team's "buy-in" on his system, when key members are pondering their futures?
3. I don't get how a deal agreed to by 3 seperate GM's gets nixed for basketball reasons ...if it was just NO and L.A. I might understand but this deal was accpted by 3 seperate franchises with no connection. Makes no sense.

But I was glad to see the forum ting bricks for a while ...somehow Mitch/Buss will ficx this ...one trade or another will be worked out ...

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

America, eatin' my lunch from a single bowl in my parents basement, where I'm livin'. Happy Birthday, I'm forty-three.

Don't want to waste those precious calories...chewin'. Jesus come move my jaw for me, help me get my sloppy food down my throat.

[TDMVPDPOY]

Thing is I was not even 100% sold on the deal we trading two bigs for a small, though excellent PG with a bum knee...so the deal doesnt dissapoint me that much.

What DOES bother me is ...

1. What this does to the fragile psyches of Pau and Odom
2. what does this do to Brown being able to get the team's "buy-in" on his system, when key members are pondering their futures?
3. I don't get how a deal agreed to by 3 seperate GM's gets nixed for basketball reasons ...if it was just NO and L.A. I might understand but this deal was accpted by 3 seperate franchises with no connection. Makes no sense.

But I was glad to see the forum ting bricks for a while ...somehow Mitch/Buss will ficx this ...one trade or another will be worked out ...

the problem here was the 29 other team owners dont wanan add more money into a fail team, what the lakers and rockets just did was pile on more salary to the NOH. The hornets are under the cap, they would rather go the sterling root operate a team while cashin on the teams payin luxury tax gettin redistributed back to teams under the cap...

[Killakobe81]

the problem here was the 29 other team owners dont wanan add more money into a fail team, what the lakers and rockets just did was pile on more salary to the NOH. The hornets are under the cap, they would rather go the sterling root operate a team while cashin on the teams payin luxury tax gettin redistributed back to teams under the cap...

But there is a salary floor and they actualy got some talent you cant trade Paul for picks only and players only. they still need to field a credible team.

[Koolaid_Man]

But there is a salary floor and they actualy got some talent you cant trade Paul for picks only and players only. they still need to field a credible team.

and this is what those morons in SA cant seem to figure out

[ChumpDumper]

But there is a salary floor and they actualy got some talent you cant trade Paul for picks only and players only. they still need to field a credible team.

They need an owner first. They can worry about meeting the salary floor next season. They already meet it now.

[midnightpulp]

And on a sidenote, everyone, here's something DazedAndConfused said about Javaris Crittenton at the time of the Gasol trade in an attempt to call it fair:



all the Lakers fans saying Crittenton was gonna be good

[DMC]

Thing is I was not even 100% sold on the deal we trading two bigs for a small, though excellent PG with a bum knee...so the deal doesnt dissapoint me that much.

What DOES bother me is ...

1. What this does to the fragile psyches of Pau and Odom
2. what does this do to Brown being able to get the team's "buy-in" on his system, when key members are pondering their futures?
3. I don't get how a deal agreed to by 3 seperate GM's gets nixed for basketball reasons ...if it was just NO and L.A. I might understand but this deal was accpted by 3 seperate franchises with no connection. Makes no sense.

But I was glad to see the forum ting bricks for a while ...somehow Mitch/Buss will ficx this ...one trade or another will be worked out ...

1. Fragile psyches have no business wearing championship rings
2. Every worker should ponder their future. It's the only carrot on a stick that the employers have once contracts are signed.
3. Deals that seem to always give the Lakers everything for nothing make sense to Laker fans, but no one else.

Now the other half is ting bricks.

[DMC]

But there is a salary floor and they actualy got some talent you cant trade Paul for picks only and players only. they still need to field a credible team.

One year on a contract vs multi year deals for players on a team that's floated by the league isn't good business sense.

Just admit it was collusion and move on.

[johnnymoore]

It's called a contract, ya dumbass. And that's what team doctors are for..they decide if a player is medically cleared to play.

Not quite. Team docs can advise, but the player has the right to go to his own doc and if his doc recommends "sit," there ain't jack the team can do about it. And doctors ALWAYS recommend that you sit and get more treatment because they don't want to get sued.

That was how Shaq forced the trade to MIA - his doc was recommending toe surgery even though the Laker docs said he could play. If he had been dealt to a team he didn't like, he was going to get the surgery and sit out the season.

Ditto T-Mac - he was about to get traded by Houston and had surgery right before the deadline to kill the deal.

[Killakobe81]

One year on a contract vs multi year deals for players on a team that's floated by the league isn't good business sense.

Just admit it was collusion and move on.

Collusion with who? Rox and Hornets want to collude with Lakers?

[ChumpDumper]

Not quite. Team docs can advise, but the player has the right to go to his own doc and if his doc recommends "sit," there ain't jack the team can do about it. And doctors ALWAYS recommend that you sit and get more treatment because they don't want to get sued.

That was how Shaq forced the trade to MIA - his doc was recommending toe surgery even though the Laker docs said he could play. If he had been dealt to a team he didn't like, he was going to get the surgery and sit out the season.

Ditto T-Mac - he was about to get traded by Houston and had surgery right before the deadline to kill the deal.

What surgery does Paul need?

And what would it matter if he played or not? hornetfan is bragging that 10,000 season tickets are already sold.

[Obstructed_View]

It'll be interesting to see the fallout from this.

It'd be one thing if the Lakers legitimately attempted to pull off another Kwame-Gasol type of trade, but this was far from that. This is straight up All-Star for All-Star with 6th man of the year thrown in. It's a fair trade and one that would have gone through if the Lakers weren't involved. Everyone here knows that.

Small market teams biting the hand that feeds them, can't wait to see how this plays out.