Gordon was discussed, but supposedly the Clips resisted including him.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-hornets_clippers_paul_trade_121211&expire=1
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Gordon was discussed, but supposedly the Clips resisted including him.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-hornets_clippers_paul_trade_121211&expire=1
I’m beginning to feel sorry I ever started chasing this story:
There is renewed momentum to push through a trade that would send Chris Paul from the league-owned New Orleans Hornets to the Los Angeles Clippers, according to sources close to the process.
If the Hornets want Eric Gordon, Chris Kaman, Al-Farouq Aminu, Eric Bledsoe and Minnesota’s unprotected 2012 first-round draft pick…. I would insist that they also take Mo Williams as part of the deal.
With Paul and Billups, the Clips’ll have the two best points in LA and the edge on being the best team in town.
So much for plans to rename Staples Center the Paul-y Pavilion.
Well it will be the Pauly Pavillion for two years. The Clippers just traded for Chris Paul even though the Hornests wouldn’t agree to take Mo Williams along with the rest of the guys (and that 1st round Minny pick) and instead got a couple of second round picks.
Vescey, that big ol’ Clips fan, must be grinning.
glad to hear that. I don’t want anyone else thinking that the Lakers are the NBA’s flagship franchise, or whatever.
Ya coulda said Premier Dimitri Kisov, still woulda been the wrong……it’s the ratty old Celts
the lakers after Magic are nothing more than Jerry West’s eye and acumen…..Is he still around the Lakers in any meaningful way?
OK. The other day I wrote a comment stating that Gordon, Kaman, AF, and a high future draft pick were too much for the Clippers to give up for Chris Paul. Now that the trade is final I take it back. What was I thinking? First of all, Gordon and Kaman are both hugely overrated. They are just not that good. Gordon never will be what the Clippers were hoping he would be. And screw draft picks. The Clippers have had a million of them. Griffin is the only thing that ever came of all their picks really, and now the Clippers have finally done something totally un-Clipper-like. They went all in. That has to change things. No more Clippery-ness! If the Clippers can change, everything is possible. And here’s the deal: there are so many beautiful things I could think of that need changing and obviously the time is right. Wars are coming to an end and the Clippers are no longer the Clippers, and now that the impossible is possible I’m going to put my positive thoughts toward dogs. You’re with me, right? We’re all dog lovers on this blog. We have that absolutely in common. So, starting now, how about we all believe that all the dogs in the world will be loved and cared for the way they should be once and for all.
Does Jack Nicolson still show up for these things, who is Stern blackmailing to hold on to this job?
Still agnostic about Bynum, but Scott makes a good case for suspicion.
Since Scott also suspects Kobe, maybe we can see that as the secret seedy backstory behind the Kobe-Bynum blow-up of a few years back. Kobe in roid-rage, or maybe delayed roid-rage, essentially saying “that kid needs to get with the program – I was willing to fuck up my life to put muscles on my twiggy sub-Jordan frame, he should be willing to do the same thing or just be a 7-foot girl for the rest of his life.”
One thing I wanted to know was whether Gordon was or wasn’t part of the deal. I read that he wasn’t and then heard that he was. If Kaman, Gordon, Bledsoe, AF and a draft pick were involved, then no one can get CP. That’s an insanely good trade for NO when you consider that CP could walk after just one year. This really is insane!