Im sure the NBA stepped in after the clippers declined and have forced the clippers to accept the trade.

The NBA does what they want when they want regardless of the rules or processes in place.

Hope he agreed to re-sign at the end of a season or it is 66 games rental for all that.

Knowing the clips. He will be a Knick come the following season.

CP3 and Griffen ---the new Stockton and Malone?

Except replace Stocktons assists with points.

I think Paul agrred to take his option for next season, so Clips have him for at least 2 yrs.

Seems like a lot to pay for 1 player.

They now have 5 or 6 PGs and no SG!!!!
Billups or Mo Williams will have to play SG unless they trade for one.

T-Wolves pick may not be as good as everyone thinks, Adelman is good at improving crappy teams so they may finish 10-13 in the West.
So unless they "win" the lotto their pick could be around 8-11.

Potential power shift in LA? Are the Clippers finally going to emegre from the shadows?

Hard to compete with the fame and $ of the Lakers

Some concerns about Paul's knee, but it's the Clippers - if they can get a top 10 player, let alone a PG to team with Griffin, you do it every day of the week.

Kaman is replaceable (pretty sure he was on big money), Eric Gordon is replaced by CP3. Chauncy plays back-up PG (best back up PG in the NBA!), they trade Mo Williams who I think is rubbish anyway, try to get a shooting guard with some perimeter D capability who can hit the 3. Rip Hamilton would have been good!

Maybe Jamal Crawford?

Ridiculous that this was accepted when the Hornets were getting a lot more in return from the other Lakers deal IMO...

No team with Mo Williams can win in the postseason though. He has to go straight up. They need to make some serious moves to even up this roster. Hopefully they do, but knowing the Clippers, they won't...

I just think it stinks that the Hornets were getting more quality players in the other deal, and the league only approved this because Dan Gilbert cant cry about a playoff team getting a star player (even if they were giving up the best 4 and best sixth man in the league - shows how clueless his basketball mind is).

Such a whinger who needs to shut up and put a good team on the floor and quit meddling in the affairs of other franchises.

The NBA is concerned about selling the NOH, so wanted a young star player.
Martin, Scola and Odom are not that type of player.
Gordon is, plus they get Minnesota's pick (potential top 5 2012)

If I was running the team I would have wanted to get rid of Okafor's terrible contract in any Paul trade.

Or they could amnesty Mo Williams to free up extra cash for the next free agency (Hope they do as I also hate Mo as a player!).

I bet stern doesn't block this one. Conspiracy rotting the Lakers. Broken trade forces Odem out, Gasol unsure about playing in LA and we get no one. Rort

Wow... that's painful. Granted they will more than likely get the scoring they need out of Paul that Gordon was putting out, but Kaman will be a hit in my opinion.

I know that this means that DeAndre Jordan will be starting for them now, but Kaman appears to have been undervalued in this trade.

Paul has the same injury-prone issue that Gordon had. I'd suggest ditching Mo Williams and offering some phat cash to Jamal Crawford to bring him over as their starting 2-man.

JOaRiDrAN - not sure you can complain after the whole Pau Gasol- for - junk trade a few years back.

Isn't Gordan an unrestricted free agent after this season??? What a loss for the Hornets if he doesn't sign an extension before then.

thedoctor, that Pau trade doesn't look so bad now Marc just re-upped with the Grizz.

Nutwork, plenty of trades look good years later. At the time, it was 'Draft Rights to Marc Gasol' + junk for the Grizzlies' franchise player.

Regardless of Marc Gasol's ability now, that trade is probably the most lopsided in recent NBA history and delivered two championships and a finals appearance to the Lakers

Ok Doc fair point the Lakers stole Gasol and won 2 titles but the GM of the Grizzlies thought it was fair so that's good enough for me.
I'm pissed cause the Odom deal was done, all 3 teams agreed until stern stepped in and stopped it which threw a spanner in the Lakers locker room. Odom got the shits (understandably) and demanded a trade causing his stock to drop and the Lakers got sweet FA for him.
Gasol is the next pissed of Laker to be traded for less than he is worth and all of this because the leagues owners cried that the Lakers will land cp3. It is what it is I just think it's hypocrisy at his finest. My money is still on Dwight Howard getting traded to LA maybe around the Allstar Weekend.

The GM of the Grizzlies at the time the Pau Gasol trade was made was Mr Laker, Jerry West. The deal, talent-for-talent at the time was so lopsided towards the Lakers it wasn't funny.

As the NBA owns the Hornets, Stern has every right to make a decision based on the Hornets. Remember he also has to try and find a new owner for the Hornets and players like Odom etc wouldn't appeal to many potential owners thinking of buying the franchise and trying to rebuild it.

It looks like the Hornets will also be missing David West. Losing two all-stars in a few weeks hurts the potential to sell the team, along with putting butts in seats to raise revenue and interest new owners. The only thing appealing to a new owner is cheap, young guns and draft picks, something the Clippers gave up.

The Lakers deal wasn't better than the one that sent CP3 to the Clippers. The Clippers deal offered a a potential young all-star in Gordon, a large expiring contract in Kaman, potential 2012 lottery pick (unprotected T'Pups pick) and a potential young stud on a rookie contract. Nothing in the Lakers/Rockets/Hornets deals came close.

TR is exactly right, While the Hornets would have gotten more talent right now with lakers/rockets trade, it wasn't Rebuilding material.

EG and Aminu are a great place to start a new team, let alone a 1st rounder from the wolves and their own 1st rounder (likely to be lottery) in whats set to be the best draft since 2003.

This i think was the best outcome for the hornets in this situation, no-one wants to end up like Cleveland did, and have the star walk for nothing basically.

TR your right in your post about the Paul Gasol deal to the Lakers, it was a stinker that handed the Lakers 2 championships. However it was not Jerry West that made the move it was his replacement and current Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace that pulled the trigger.

West left the Memphis Grizzlies in July 2007, the Gasol trade was done in February 2008.