Official 2011-2012 Lakers thread

[KingZee]

Yeah I don't think this had anything to do with Fisher...that's just stupid and Stern might be a lot of things but he's not stupid.

[nmjaxx9]

Originally Posted by Rui Z

If Chris Paul was on the Lakers, Derek Fisher would finally be able to fill the void that was created once Mark Madsen left.........Male Cheerleader. That trade would have ended Derek Fisher's career. David Stern would have let that trade go through if he wanted to get back at Fisher.

Its not about Fisher, more than it is about the whole Lakers organization, even Kobe stated:

I think other owners did not want the Lakers to make significant improvements again," Bryant said after practice Thursday, hours before Paul's introductory news conference with the Los Angeles Clippers, less than five miles across town.

"We always contended as players that the lockout was really more so about the owners fighting amongst themselves, which is what you just saw [with the vetoed trade]," Bryant said. "You got Chris Paul coming here and the other owners weren't with that, because you don't want another great player coming to L.A., and all of the sudden Los Angeles has another player that can carry them on well after I retire. "

More than likely someone will catch on to Sterns ********, there is no way you can deny that he had an alternate motive behind the trade cancellation, if he didn't he would have let the trade go, I mean K-mart, Scola, Dragic, and a 2012 1st round pick were up for grabs for CP. That sounds like more than fair deal on the Hornets side, especially for one shooting guard. So why cancel an actual beneficial trade for the hornets??