Man I remember Chris Broussard breaking it down on sportscenter, I was hyped. Then they broke the news it got vetoed same day
Vegasguy3124
Ah yes.. Tradegate. David Stern and the swamp blew a whistle and called foul
mambabite24
What Kobe could have done with an elite PG. Never had one in his career. He said he hated initiating the offense.
An underrated skill he was elite at was positioning himself offball. Not necessarily running around like Steph or Ray, although he could, but more so great at getting deep post position and feeling the leverage of the defenders to either back cut or pop out for a catch and fade away.
MazKhan
Is that a guaranteed ring tho? Losing both Lamar and pau and not getting a big in return would’ve been tough to overcome
kfreud
Love how we had to trade Lamar for peanuts too after this because he was pissed
dash_44
I mean they did get Dwight and Steve Nash shortly after.
It didn’t turn out great but who knows what would have happened to CP3 on the lakers. Maybe egos clash, maybe he gets hurt…etc
Wolfpackpapi1
Cp0 has no rings for a reason,he wouldn’t have gotten one with Kobe
Wild_Object_8547
Fuck cp3.
QuackSenior
tbf, the veto reason did make sense though
KingDavid920
FUCK DAN GILBERT
John_Lives
That was such a garbage trade for the Hornets honestly. I can’t believe they initially accepted it
Juaniscool-8
Imma be real, we wouldn’t have done shit. We gave up too much.
Wise_Ad_112
I was so happy then I was pissed.
3nnui
Fuck Stern, Fuck Gilbert, Fuck Cuban, Fuck Pop.
NotTheMamba
Hornets were getting a great return. This fucking sickens me.
TheInconspicuousBIG
Man middle school, Skyrim had just come out, and the Lakers had CP3 for a couple hours 😩
redbluenavy
Ppl also forgot it completely nuked the Laker’s trade asset value. Lamar wasn’t the same after this and Pau left in free agency. And the rest were traded for lesser players. Even more, the Hornets were obviously trying to tank so keeping cp3 made no sense at all; and the trade after (to the Clippers) was actually not much better (if not worse).
And for the ppl who say the veto should’ve happened, the league at the time also had the Heatles, and then saw the KD-Warriors… “unfair” things happen all the time, but the league didn’t veto any of those things, except this.
Anyways, it’s now just a big “what-if”. I’m glad Pau was able to stay long enough to get his jersey retired… and I’m glad cp3 still doesn’t have a ring
bruddahmanmatt
I can’t find it, but I remember someone shopping Derek Fisher’s face over Birdman and flashing something like “CP3 trade vetoed” on the blimp. Shit was a ClubLakers classic.
I was on Reddit when it happened…..had a bunch of morons on other teams lying to themselves, saying shit like “if this happened to my team, I’d understand”. Oddly enough, Celtic fans were mostly on our side, from what I remember. Bitch ass Spurs/Jazz fans were the biggest haters.
GokutheAnteater
Fuck David Stern, Fuck Dan Gilbert and Fuck Mark Cuban
ZJtheOZ
Fuck “Basketball Reasons” !!!!
TheRootedCorpse
Still salty about this one. And drafting Lonzo over Tatum. I’ll never get over those two things.
AttacksKing
man i wish we coulda seen a prime cp3 n kobe, i truly believe the experience woulda leveled up paul.
imironman2018
Odom was never the same after this trade got rejected. Just completely screwed over Lakers fans so many ways.
Abyssrealm
Say what you want about Adam Silver, but if he was the commissioner and not stern, I’m absolutely convinced Kobe would have gotten his 6th ring
Still my goat
lakers907
Never regret lakers fam!!
Chipdouglas0007
Just got a FB memory for this, where I posted something to the effect of ” heats window is over, we got cp3 and we getting d12 next” lmao 😭.
Civinini333
HOU had several 1st round picks that year. 2012 1st round HOU pick ended to be 12th -Jeremy Lamb (if it came from MIL), 14, John Henson (if it’s the one traded to MIL), 16 Royce White (if from NY), 18 Terrence Jones (From Utah via MIN)
kb-24-
I think the Lakers package was much better than what the hornets eventually ended up getting in my opinion.
CabbageStockExchange
lol I remember I was a commissioner for my fantasy basketball league at the time and vetoed a trade with the comment “Basketball reasons” for shits and giggles.
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Man I remember Chris Broussard breaking it down on sportscenter, I was hyped. Then they broke the news it got vetoed same day
Ah yes.. Tradegate. David Stern and the swamp blew a whistle and called foul
What Kobe could have done with an elite PG. Never had one in his career. He said he hated initiating the offense.
An underrated skill he was elite at was positioning himself offball. Not necessarily running around like Steph or Ray, although he could, but more so great at getting deep post position and feeling the leverage of the defenders to either back cut or pop out for a catch and fade away.
Is that a guaranteed ring tho? Losing both Lamar and pau and not getting a big in return would’ve been tough to overcome
Love how we had to trade Lamar for peanuts too after this because he was pissed
I mean they did get Dwight and Steve Nash shortly after.
It didn’t turn out great but who knows what would have happened to CP3 on the lakers. Maybe egos clash, maybe he gets hurt…etc
Cp0 has no rings for a reason,he wouldn’t have gotten one with Kobe
Fuck cp3.
tbf, the veto reason did make sense though
FUCK DAN GILBERT
That was such a garbage trade for the Hornets honestly. I can’t believe they initially accepted it
Imma be real, we wouldn’t have done shit. We gave up too much.
I was so happy then I was pissed.
Fuck Stern, Fuck Gilbert, Fuck Cuban, Fuck Pop.
Hornets were getting a great return. This fucking sickens me.
Man middle school, Skyrim had just come out, and the Lakers had CP3 for a couple hours 😩
Ppl also forgot it completely nuked the Laker’s trade asset value. Lamar wasn’t the same after this and Pau left in free agency. And the rest were traded for lesser players. Even more, the Hornets were obviously trying to tank so keeping cp3 made no sense at all; and the trade after (to the Clippers) was actually not much better (if not worse).
And for the ppl who say the veto should’ve happened, the league at the time also had the Heatles, and then saw the KD-Warriors… “unfair” things happen all the time, but the league didn’t veto any of those things, except this.
Anyways, it’s now just a big “what-if”. I’m glad Pau was able to stay long enough to get his jersey retired… and I’m glad cp3 still doesn’t have a ring
I can’t find it, but I remember someone shopping Derek Fisher’s face over Birdman and flashing something like “CP3 trade vetoed” on the blimp. Shit was a ClubLakers classic.
https://gifer.com/fr/j0k
I was on Reddit when it happened…..had a bunch of morons on other teams lying to themselves, saying shit like “if this happened to my team, I’d understand”. Oddly enough, Celtic fans were mostly on our side, from what I remember. Bitch ass Spurs/Jazz fans were the biggest haters.
Fuck David Stern, Fuck Dan Gilbert and Fuck Mark Cuban
Fuck “Basketball Reasons” !!!!
Still salty about this one. And drafting Lonzo over Tatum. I’ll never get over those two things.
man i wish we coulda seen a prime cp3 n kobe, i truly believe the experience woulda leveled up paul.
Odom was never the same after this trade got rejected. Just completely screwed over Lakers fans so many ways.
Say what you want about Adam Silver, but if he was the commissioner and not stern, I’m absolutely convinced Kobe would have gotten his 6th ring
Still my goat
Never regret lakers fam!!
Just got a FB memory for this, where I posted something to the effect of ” heats window is over, we got cp3 and we getting d12 next” lmao 😭.
HOU had several 1st round picks that year.
2012 1st round HOU pick ended to be 12th -Jeremy Lamb (if it came from MIL), 14, John Henson (if it’s the one traded to MIL), 16 Royce White (if from NY), 18 Terrence Jones (From Utah via MIN)
I think the Lakers package was much better than what the hornets eventually ended up getting in my opinion.
lol I remember I was a commissioner for my fantasy basketball league at the time and vetoed a trade with the comment “Basketball reasons” for shits and giggles.