He doesn't run the team. Well technically he doesn't but obviously he does. They still have a GM that makes decisions.

 

The owner of a team always has the final say. From what I am reading, it sounds like Stern stopped the deal as the owner and not as the commissioner.

The owner of a team always has the final say. From what I am reading, it sounds like Stern stopped the deal as the owner and not as the commissioner.

 

Not at all. The league office stopped it. The NBA just owns the Hornets they aren't supposed to control them. We all know what really happened and that is Stern stopped the trade obviously but that wasn't the way it was supposed to be setup.

Stern is a moron.

Not at all. The league office stopped it. The NBA just owns the Hornets they aren't supposed to control them. We all know what really happened and that is Stern stopped the trade obviously but that wasn't the way it was supposed to be setup.

 

The owner always has the final say and control of the team decisions.

http://www.sbnation.com/2011-nba-free-agency/2011/12/9/2622974/chris-paul-trade-veto-la-lakers-david-stern-owners-hook

 

Take it away, 2010 Stern:

 

"As far as we're concerned there have been while this process has been going on, there have been two significant transactions. And our response to both of them was, 'You guys are management, you understand your budget and your instructions, just go ahead, because we've got Jac Sperling, Hugh Weber here, and if they recommend it, then we're going to be approving it.'"

The owner always has the final say and control of the team decisions.

 

Every team in the NBA owns part of the team they don't vote on final say of every transaction. They have people in place to do that. The league office stopped the deal because of pressure from people like Dan Gilbert.

Pitiful.

 

Agreed.

Might as well contract the Hornets now instead of waiting a year.

Money does matter. The Reds made a trade in the 70's for Vida Blue that was nixed by the baseball commissioner because of the money.

 

Some of us are old enough to remember that whole "not in the best interest of the game" line.

Might as well contract the Hornets now instead of waiting a year.

 

Exactly.

 

 

Here is a nice article on the situation...

 

 

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/story/16371316/nixed-paul-deal-makes-nba-look-like-secondrate-bush-league

On the very day that the NBA was supposed to be back, embracing us with this charade of a 66-game season after five months of a pointless lockout, it stepped into the worst kind of purgatory.

 

What happened Thursday, the incomprehensible events you'd expect from a second-rate, minor league sport, did far more damage than the lockout ever did -- or ever could. After years of fans, both casual and hard-core, not to mention the disciplined executives and coaches working in the business, believing that something always wasn't quite right -- something was rotten in Denmark -- the NBA finally proved it.

 

This whole thing Thursday reeked to high heaven, and the NBA is going to pay a very dear price for it.

 

Having spoken with team executives getting back into the swing of things since the tentative deal on a new collective bargaining agreement was reached two weeks ago, I heard the anger. No sooner had the beleaguered negotiators slept off the 15-hour bargaining session that finally resulted in the deal, it was back to business as usual. After a five-month lockout that was supposedly about restoring competitive balance -- we can all hear deputy commissioner Adam Silver's mind-numbing, and as it turns out, empty soliloquy ringing in our ears -- it was right back to Chris Paul wanting to be in New York, Dwight Howard in L.A., and on and on and on.

 

"Pathetic," is how one team executive described the mayhem that played out Thursday, before commissioner David Stern somehow found a way to make it worse by canceling a trade that would've sent superstar Chris Paul from the Hornets to the Lakers for what a league spokesman laughably called "basketball reasons."

The owner always has the final say and control of the team decisions.

 

Stern isn't the owner. He didn't pay a cent for the team. The other 29 owners divided the cost equally making them 1/29th owner. Mark Cuban went nuts last year when NO added salary. He could see into the future. Stern has no control here. They will lose and lose big when CP files a lawsuit. That one will be quickly followed by one from the Rockets and Lakers.

I will say this, I don't expect New Orleans to get a better deal than that. I understand the thinking behind the vetoed trade, but it was obviously a bad move.

Really, I think this trade would be best for all parties involved. Hornets lose CP3 next year regardless and will get NOTHING in return for him. Let them make the trade now and add three good players. Stern is screwing NO over more than anybody in this.

Not a Lakers fan, hate Kobe and don't want him to succeed (unless its at the expense of Lebron) but this was a truly weird situation. Not sure NO can get more than this, so what is the plan? Keep him and let him walk at the end of the year without compensation? Craziness.

I heard someone mention that the commissioner basically just "contracted the Hornets".