OT: Darius Morris to backup Chris Paul in LA
The Los Angeles Lakers have agreed to surrender Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom in a trade for New Orleans Hornets point guard Chris Paul, sources tell ESPN.com's Marc Stein.
December 8th, 2011 at 7:54 PM ^
December 8th, 2011 at 8:10 PM ^
Technically, fourth-string at a position is still a "backup," so yeah. Nice job.
December 8th, 2011 at 8:50 PM ^
I also upvoted this as funny.
But. When you tell me somebody is "backing up" another player, I think that he is both in the rotation and *the* primary backup.
Shane Battier is going to Miami to backup LeBron James.
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Darius Morris will backup Chris Paul.
Connotation is important.
December 8th, 2011 at 8:50 PM ^
Back up Steve Blake after Paul, dude might not even make the roster.
December 8th, 2011 at 9:01 PM ^
December 8th, 2011 at 9:07 PM ^
The NBA vetoed the deal. This is crazy. They shouldn't be allowed to do that when they own the team.
December 8th, 2011 at 9:10 PM ^
They own the team so they should be able to keep the one asset that might help them sell the team.
December 8th, 2011 at 9:16 PM ^
The problem is that the other owners shouldn't be allowed to stop a trade just because it strengthens another (the Lakers). It's a great trade for the Hornets.
December 8th, 2011 at 9:34 PM ^
and not receiving an all star or top 3 pick in return is in no way a great trade. They were going to get an above average PF, and above average SG who plays horrible defense, and a below average PG. Then a couple worthless late draft picks. Not a good trade for the Hornets.
December 9th, 2011 at 10:01 AM ^
What trade do you think they can get? CP3 has had some pretty big injury issues. He has very little incentive to re-sign with most teams except the Knicks(nothing to trade), the Lakers, the Celtics(Rondo? no thanks), and then what? Maybe the Clippers?
They can't wait it out. At the end of the season he's signing with the Knicks if they don't trade him.
December 8th, 2011 at 9:55 PM ^
Isiah says "hi".
December 8th, 2011 at 10:27 PM ^
Isaiah's prime basically coincided with Magic's prime. He only played for a couple of years after Magic retired, and at that point in his career, he wasn't as good as a mid-career Chris Paul. Or a mid-career Jason Kidd or Gary Payton.
Caveat: I'm basing this argument on a glance at basketball-reference.com and my memory as a 10-year-old.
December 8th, 2011 at 10:52 PM ^
Its widely known that he won't sign an extension there.
Trading Chris Paul helps sell the team
December 8th, 2011 at 10:12 PM ^
Maybe he's a big World of Warcraft guy
December 8th, 2011 at 10:47 PM ^
That's exactly what I said on Twitter.
December 8th, 2011 at 9:28 PM ^
Another example of the NBA (not) being Fantastic! It really is a such a joke any more that it is not even funny. Stern has made this league into a laughing stock in the matter of few short years.
December 8th, 2011 at 10:03 PM ^
Odds that Khloe (or maybe her evil mother) tried to sell themselves to the NBA to make sure the deal didn't go through? I think very good.
December 8th, 2011 at 10:48 PM ^
A long distance relationship could have been a good story line.
December 8th, 2011 at 10:09 PM ^
Even if the deal went through, wouldn't he still be behind Fisher?
December 8th, 2011 at 10:36 PM ^
wtf is up with the league halting a trade like this?
it seems like an arbitrary move; i bet lawsuits are forthcoming.
December 8th, 2011 at 10:44 PM ^
The league owns the Hornets. They still have a general manager, of course (Jeff Demps), but from the outside it looks like the suits just facilitated the transfer of a superstar to one of the two biggest markets in the country. People are not happy.