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Your owner wrote a [expletive]ing e-mail to David Stern bitching about a legal NBA trade. Whether I think it was a bad trade or not that's by far the most bitchassness I've ever seen in the NBA. Its his fault you guys picked first last year. Not LeBron's, not the Heat not anyone but Dan Gilbert. He hired the shit GM's that couldn't get the job done bringing in talent around LeBron when they had the chance. The whole pity card he's trying to play is pathetic.

It's not going to be about on the court production, obviously that team will get more done on the court. However with that team, their cap situation is [expletive]ed and they are just going to be stuck as a treadmill team for the next 3-4 years and def won't compete with the Lakers. I would rather take the young stud player and begin a complete rebuild. Lol if you actually believe the Hornets are better off with Luis Scola K-Mart and Odom.

The Nets screwed themselves over. They screwed themselves. Screwed it. Screwed. They did.

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.

andyroddick andyroddick Gonna go get some lunch...... Hoping David stern doesn't veto my meal (twitter)

More like Magic screwed themselves.

you were mad when the deal is going down and mad its not going down lol. if the lakers some how still manage to get cp3 and dwight all i can say is im glad Dallas got there ring why they did.

It's just funny that 'many' owners voiced anger over this, yet Gilberts e-mail is the only one that gets leaked so he gets all the blame.

For what it's worth...

While I still don't like your attitude, I now see why you did what you did to Dan Gilbert. Maybe the Cleveland fans didn't deserve the whole TV fiasco, but Dan Gilbert sure the hell did...and I, too, want to dropkick his son in the face while he holds his #1 pick jersey. I will be rooting for you and the Heat when you play the Cavaliers this season. January 24th February 7th February 17th On my calendar. - Brandon

The thing is that Gilbert is technically an owner of the Hornets so he is fully within his rights to play the "veto" card, just like any other owner. By the book, there are 29 owners of the New Orleans Hornets right now so any owner, whether it is Cuban, Arison, Gilbert, Allen, Jordan etc..., are allowed to veto the trade. That is why it was such an awful decision to make the Hornets a league owned team. If you have a single owner, this trade likely goes through (unless Stern really wants to ruin any credibility he has left, which is already very little). However, since the owners of the other 29 teams get an equal say, you know that they are going to shoot down the trade since they don't care about what is best for the Hornets, they care about what is best for their teams. Paul going to LA to join forces with Kobe and Bynum (or later Howard as most everybody expected) is not good for their teams so they are going to pull the veto card. It sucks and makes the league look terrible, but they are well within their rights to do what they did tonight. Luckily for the NBA that the players have voted on the new CBA already (they all have, right?), otherwise I could easily see this resulting in them continuing the lockout and wiping out not only this season, but future ones as well.

OTR shut down for...basketball reasons

...that's gonna be an awkward ass practice in LA lmao

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I am not hating on the Lakers at all, in fact good for them. The thing I am pissed about is how dumb these trades are. This is like a video game trade. How can the Hornets be satisfied with Lamar Odom? I mean they get good guys like Scola and KMart, but this is Chris Paul. Then the Rockets give up their whole team and a pick and they get Gasol, who can't lead a team anywhere. Next is the Magic. They are going to give away the best defensive player in the league and probably the best center since Shaq for good old Andrew Bynum, who went out in grand fashion in the playoffs and who also can't lead a team anywhere. Lakers are just robbing everyone. I don't understand why other NBA teams jump in to get Dwight before the Lakers get a team that can destroy them.