The decision to veto a trade that would have sent Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers in a three-team deal involving the New Orleans Hornets and Houston Rockets was made by commissioner David Stern. However, there are several owners who supported the commissioner's decision. One such owner is Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
Cuban went on record in a radio interview, transcribed by ESPN Dallas, to pull his full support behind Stern:
"The message is we went through this lockout for a reason," Cuban said Friday on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM's Ben and Skin Show. "Again, I'm not speaking for Stern. He's not telling me his thought process. I'm just telling you my perspective, having gone through all this. There's a reason that we went through this lockout, and one of the reasons is to give small-market teams the ability to keep their stars and the ability to compete."
This isn't the first time that Cuban has opined on a Hornets transaction. Last year, he objected to the Hornets paying a little extra cash to acquire Carl Landry from the Sacramento Kings for Marcus Thornton. His support for the commissioner in this case is therefore not particularly surprising.
Stay tuned to this StoryStream for further updates. You can also follow along with our Hornets blog, At the Hive, our Lakers blog, Silver Screen and Roll, and our Rockets blog, The Dream Shake.
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No s—-, Sherlock. And you put forward a good deal of incentives for star players to remain with their teams. That deal was signed and agreed upon.
This trade block does not adhere to those agreed upon rules. There’s no way you can say that it does, Cubes.
All you’ve got to support the nullification of this trade is the fact that the league is acting as owner of NO, which is a total conflict of interest. And, as a further embarrassment to you owners, just cleaned the small market team you’re so trying to help out of a great deal! Awesome.
Which I guess will make it hard to prove in court that the league acting as owner is indeed a conflict of interest, given the whopping buffoonery of the judgement calls.
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