Commissioner,

It would be a travesty to allow the Lakers to acquire Chris Paul in the apparent trade being discussed.

This trade should go to a vote of the 29 owners of the Hornets.

Over the next three seasons this deal would save the Lakers approximately $20 million in salaries and approximately $21 million in luxury taxes. That $21 million goes to non-taxpaying teams and to fund revenue sharing.

I cannot remember ever seeing a trade where a team got by far the best player in the trade and saved over $40 million in the process. And it doesn’t appear that they would give up any draft picks, which might allow to later make a trade for Dwight Howard. (They would also get a large trade exception that would help them improve their team and/or eventually trade for Howard.) When the Lakers got Pau Gasol (at the time considered an extremely lopsided trade) they took on tens of millions in additional salary and luxury tax and they gave up a number of prospects (one in Marc Gasol who may become a max-salary player).

I just don’t see how we can allow this trade to happen.

I know the vast majority of owners feel the same way that I do.

When will we just change the name of 25 of the 30 teams to the Washington Generals?

Please advise….

Dan G.

I think Gilbert is right. The Lakers would get away with saving 40 mil plus getting CP3?? No no bad deal for the league.
We can get CP3 if Amare , Mello and Chandler re-work their contracts. Let's say Melo gives up 2.5 mil Amare 2.5 mil and Chandler 1.5 mil. Plus the mid level pay and we could be enough for CP3.

crzymdups wrote:this whole debacle proves that the lockout was fruitless and solved none of the real problems. real problem: the star players want to move to marquee franchises and/or big markets, of which there are like 5 or 6 total.

sucks for the hornets. dell demps made a move abiding by all the rules and got vetoed by a bunch of sh!thead hardline owners who felt embarrassed that their whole lockout power play was exposed as posturing too quickly.

Papabear wrote:Papabear Says

I think Gilbert is right. The Lakers would get away with saving 40 mil plus getting CP3?? No no bad deal for the league.

I disagree- the Lakers lost their PF AND Odom- they lost a lot, it was a fair trade for them- a team of Kobe, CP3 and injury prone Bynum is not a guaranteed championship team- they have no depth at all.

smackeddog wrote:

Papabear wrote:Papabear Says

I think Gilbert is right. The Lakers would get away with saving 40 mil plus getting CP3?? No no bad deal for the league.

I disagree- the Lakers lost their PF AND Odom- they lost a lot, it was a fair trade for them- a team of Kobe, CP3 and injury prone Bynum is not a guaranteed championship team- they have no depth at all.

Yeah but they still saved a lot of money in the long run.

crzymdups wrote:i really hope his original email was in green comic sans. only way it's acceptable.

LOL