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The Lakers are after both CP3 and Howard?

trigg3r said:
Fantastic.... I guess it is at least a good sign that they have to part with Gasol. We all know Bynum is going to miss some significant time due to injury. That pretty much means they should be pretty weak in that regard.
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Agree.

If I had to choose between the Lakers acquiring CP3 or Dwight Howard - I'd rather they get CP3.
If I had to choose between the Lakers giving up Gasol or giving up Bynum - I'd prefer they give up Gasol.

So if the Lakers HAVE to get a superstar, that would probably be the best-case scenario.
 
Hooray, the NBA trades Paul and Okafor to Lakers for Odom and Bynum. It's official. NBA owns Hornets. Just a rigged ******** trade
 
@WojYahooNBA: The Hornets are near a deal to send Chris Paul to the Lakers for Andrew Bynum and Lamar Odom, league source tells Y! Sports.

@WojYahooNBA: The Hornets have started to inform teams that they're sending Chris Paul to the Lakers for Bynum and Odom, league sources tell Y! Sports.
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Yup sounds like it's goin down.

CP3, Kobe, Gasol - that's a real Big-3. If they got Ariza in the deal (instead of Okafor) IMO that would've been a better pickup for them.

Not sorry to see Odom leave LA. As a SF - AK would routinely win that matchup, but at PF Odom was a matchup nightmare for Boozer and Millsap.

You could see it as the Lakers getting that superstar to carry the team as Kobe ages, but it could also be a very small window for the team to compete - w/CP3's knee, Kobe already over 41,000 career minutes and Gasol at age 32 and 26k min.

As long as Dwight Howard doesn't end up in purple & gold I'll be okay.
 
Haha... Bynum and Odom exiled to Hornets hell lmao...
As stated, as long as Howard doesn't still some how end up a Laker, this could be a good trade, for the rest of the west anyway haha. But I still wouldn't be surprised to see the Lakers pull some kind of trade with Gasol to still try and bring in Howard as well... Hope not anyway.
 
LunaticWolf said:
Now they are saying Gasol
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Wow so that would still leave Bynum to build a trade package around and make a play for Dwight Howard. (Not sure what else they could include in the package though, but you can't tell me that's the best offer the Hornets have gotten).
 
CP3
Kobe
Metta World Peace
??? (Scrub)
Bynum 50-60 games

As constructed, this team doesn't scare me all that much. Too bad they didn't do this when the Jazz had the old crew. I think the Jazz could've taken them in a 7 game series with no Gasol or Odom. I really think I'd rather have Gasol than CP3, let alone Gasol and Odom...
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
Sounds like the deal might be off. Owners vetoed?
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I guess it's the fear of Howard ending up in LA. Then you conceivabkly have super teams in Miami, LA and NY. And that's why the owners should have held their ground on a hard cap and the super restrictive MLE rules that were bargained away.

Odom and Gasol for Paul really wasn't that bad. Not sure how the Lakers would have acquired Howard. All they'd have left would be Metta and Bynum. But Kobe, Paul, Metta and Bynum is not all that scary of a lineup. Three guys who have being breaking down physically and one who is fragile mentally.
 
I'd be willing to trade half the Jazz team to get Pau Gasol, as long as they keep Favs and Hays (assuming Pau has some good years left, I don't know his physical condition.)
 
northeast said:
I'd be willing to trade half the Jazz team to get Pau Gasol, as long as they keep Favs and Hays (assuming Pau has some good years left, I don't know his physical condition.)
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He looked like age was catching up to him last season. He also makes a ton of money. It's a pass for me.
 
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