N.....BA?

So yes I love football, but there is another sport out there that I enjoy. That sport is basketball. The problem is instead of having posts on football and basketball this season, there was no NBA to talk about because of an NBA lockout....well the lockout is kind of over and you'd expect with the new CBA to have an NBA Free Agency frenzy like we did when we got the NFL unlocked....the problem is the NBA Commish isn't allowing it.

The story all starts with the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers franchise. When they got swept in the playoffs by the NBA Champs, the Dallas Mavericks, they basically crumpled their franchise into a paper ball and started on a new clean sheet. They fired legendary head coach Phil Jackson, they also showed interest in upcoming free agents like Chris Paul (Point Guard from New Orleans Hornets) and Dwight Howard (Center from the Orlando Magic).

Since the lockout though their pursuit was put on hold, players were then bound to their player organizations not their NBA organizations. So the Lakers waited patiently and once the lockout was put to rest they were like "Alright lets get this party started!" So the Lakers put out a trade offer for Chris Paul the trade involved a three team deal between the Lakers, Rockets (Houston Texas), and the Hornets. The Players involved in the trade were Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, Chris Paul, Luis Scola, Kevin Martin, Gordan Dragic, and a 2012 Draft Pick.

But David Stern was like "NO!" He said the deal was under cutting the other teams in NBA that don't have stars. You mean like the Rockets and the Hornets....who were also in the deal? I mean the Hornets were getting a lot for their all star Point Guard, they were getting Luis Scola, Kevin Martin, Lamar Odom, and the Kardashians (or at least one of them). Houston was getting a new all star center to replace Yao Ming in Pau Gasol, and the Lakers (The NBA's awarded and fan loved (but not by I the Sports d00de)) were getting, who most experts claim to be, the best point guard in the league! How is that unfair.

When I heard this story on my favorite sports radio show, Colin Cowherd and the Herd, I was like "WHat? what is David Stern thinking?" Then Colin had Steve Kerr on and he was basically saying that it was uncharacteristic of David Stern to basically break the rules. The rule being broken that Stern shut the deal down after signing a new CBA that the trade totally followed....Steve Kerr made a great point by bringing up the fact that Stern made sure his Phoenix Suns lost a playoff series because Amare Stoudemire stood up and got on the court after a hard foul on one of his teammates, and then in the next playoff game he had to sit because of a suspension under the rule of a player can't get up and get on the court after a foul (or something like that).

All I know is the NBA was a sports league that was on the up I would have put it second behind the NFL. After a lockout and now an unruly David Stern, I'd say it's having a problem and who knows, BUT on a happy NBA Side Note, LeBron :)