Gilbert sending Stern at NBA Live Mobile Coins a 300-word missive whinier than a two-year-old out of candy.When Stern vetoed the deal, he first suggested "basketball reasons" as the impetus, and later adjusted that into an explanation that the Hornets are more valuable with Paul on the roster. Should Stern allow this trade to go through, both rationales will be exposed as lies: the package involved in the Lakers' would have kept the
Hornets more competitive over at least the Buy MU Legend Online Zen next three seasons than the Clippers' deal will, and, obviously the league will have traded CP3 despite Stern's concern about the value of the franchise.Stern didn't kill the Lakers deal because of basketball reasons or a concern with the Hornets franchise's value. He did it because letting the Lakers acquired another young superstar on the day the 2011 lockout endedwas untenable.
Too many owners were too furious, and he was too unwilling to stand up for Jerry Buss' right to make an aggressive basketball trade.Buss got screwed -- the failed trade led to Lamar Odom demanding a move, so the Lakers handed him to the Dallas Mavericks -- and the beneficiary is Donald T. Sterling, longtime owner of the Clippers and, by all accounts, a really awful person.
How awful? Sterling, who made a large portion of his fortune in real estate, is the proud owner of the largest federal racial-discrimination housing lawsuit settlement in American history -- he paid $3 million in 2009 to settle a number of charges of willful mistreatment of black and Latino tenants filed by federal attorneys. Jon Weinbach has reported that from 2003 to [
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