NBA Vetoes Trade Including Lakers, Hornets And Rockets : Trade Dead Chris Paul

After the Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets and New Orleans Hornest agreed on a trade proposal that would send Hornets all world point guard Chris Paul to Los Angeles, the NBA nixed the deal and told all players involved to report to their current teams training camps Friday. But at a time Commissioner David killed the trade because of, Worjnarowaski says, a chorus of owners were irate with the belief that the five month lockout had happened largely to stop big market teams from leveraging small market teans for star players pending free agency.

The situation has quite a few implication for the Orlando Magic. Having been rebuffed in their efforts to land Paul as their star of the future, Lakers could intensify their efforts to pry Dwight Haward. With Paul off the table for Los Angeles Haward becomes its top target, Derom Williams, who like Paul and Haward is able for free agency in 2012 and also draw more attention from Los Angeles as a result of this news. This is the negative news from Magic.

But all the news not going to bad :

There is many happier not also, from an Orlando perspective, it keeps Paul on the trade market. Ken Berger reported a week ago that Paul informed the Hornets in July 2010 he wanted them to trade him to one of three teams. Put the July 2010 request together with the news that Paul and Haward have spoken recently about teaming up the possibility of a Paul/Haward pairing becomes a bit more real. Add the New Orleans Times-Picayune report that Orlando is among several teams to have “Preliminary trade discussion” with the Hornets regarding paul, and you get the idea.

Visibly, there are obstacles to any trade, and Orlando’s biggest at the moment is coming up with enough assets to convince New Orleans to pull the trigger on a Paul deal. On the one the NBA killed tonight, the Hornets would have received Lamar Odom, Kevin Marti, Luis Scola and future first round draft pick. Without the Laker’s involvement, there’s no simply no incentive for the Rockets to get involved.

A short Biography of Chris Paul

Name : Chris Paul

Date of Birth : May 6, 1985

Place of Birth : Lewisville, North Carrolina

Nationality : American

High School : West Forsyth High School

Listed Height : 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Listed Weight : 175 lb (79kg),

Career information :

College : Wake Forest NBA Draft 2005

Round : 1/Pick 4^th overall Selected by the New Orleans Hornets Pro career 2005-present