How to make the Chris Paul trade work?

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I know I'm in the minority, but I fell Stern was right to Veto the trade. Chris Paul is highty in demand and the Lakers didn't give up enogh to get him. A pair of guys in their 30's for a 26 year old elite point guard. A joke. The biggest problem is the NBA owning the Hornets. There is a clear conflict of interest. When they trade a superstar to one of their biggest tv markets, of course people are going to question their motives,

However, if the Lakers offer a fair package the league should allow the trade. The only way this works is for the Lakers to give Bynum to the Hornets. Young talent for young talent. Add a third team and get a few more good players to Houston and maybe give up Lamar Odom or Pau Gasol, while a few other good players on the level of Martin and Scola head to New Orleans.

I know they wanted to use Bynum for a Dwight Howard trade, but realistic they shouldn't be able to land both on a level playing field. I think Stern would have to OK a deal where involving Bynum.

That's how it works in every sport. You don't trade players in their early 30's for a superstar in his mid-twenties, especially when that star is the most talented player.

Saffren · Accepted Answer

I don't know much about your assertion about the sports practice of trading players based on age. But the following are also unspoken rules in basketball.
- You would never get a absolutely fair trade in a deal for any superstar.
- You do not trade big for small.

You are forgetting that Pau Gasol is a 4 time All-Star and Lamar Odom is a bonafide All-Star caliber player and the reigning Sixth-Man of the Year. Both are key players on the Lakers championship teams that reeled in 2 titles and those guys are two-thirds of the 7 footed reasons that made the Lakers front court as formidable and dominant as it is.
Are the Lakers really giving away too little? I do not think so.

Houston would get the legit big man in the middle that they sorely lacked. Sure they are giving up alot but in Pau Gasol, they are getting a experienced and highly skilled big with a lot of intangibles to offer.

Give up one injury prone star who is eventually going to leave for nothing anyway and get back three 20 point per game starters and a backup guard capable of big nights and a first round pick, and improve your roster on all fronts?
Basketball wise, it is good business for New Orleans.
If you were to think about it, it is the Hornets that are getting the best deal of the three, basketball wise.


Bynum, Odom or Gasol, Scola and Kevin Martin to New Orleans? How are they going to balance the books? To have the trade include the injury prone Bynum, players that would have to go to Houston and to the Lakers would HAVE to come from New Orleans and/or Houston. Including a fourth team and moving more players only ensures that those teams would destabilize their team chemistry more than what is necessary. If that is the case, they do not necessarily stand to benefit more than if they just went with the initial deal.

Stern had the right to veto the trade. That does not mean he was right in vetoing the trade, because all the information out there points out that the decision was made in view of considerations other than what is in the genuine interests of the Hornets franchise.

If Stern was concerned about the fairness of trade packages, he would have attempted to veto the Kwame Brown - Pau Gasol trade years ago.


How to make the Chris Paul trade work? The three teams involved want it to happen. All that is required for the trade to work is for David Stern to allow it to happen.

JULYKNIGHT68 · Answer

The trade actually favored the Hornets more than the Lakers. The Lakers lose two big guys and are left with an injury prone Andrew Bynum and the Hornets got some really good players to keep them in playoff contention. Paul is great, but his addition to the Lakers doesn't make them title favorites IMO.

? · Answer

it was a 3 way trade just so you know

TO LA 
CP3, what do they lose? A LOT OF SIZE.. Andrew Bynum cannot score like Pau did, and he cannot fill the gap of Lamar and Pau in rebounding end

TO HOU
Pau Gasol - They get the size they wanted and get to dump a lot of duplicate players

TO NOH
Goran Dragic - PG with great potential ('10 WCF and Semis)
Kevin Martin - Unconscious scorer
Luis Scola - Best low post offensive player
Some Draft picks and so on

If you tell me that doesn't look fair on a basketball sense then you don't know basketball homie

Anonymous · Answer

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