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Originally Posted by St. Pats
The league are the owners. They can veto the decision of their GM anytime they feel like. Just like Feaster can't make a deal without Edwards approval(or so the story goes).
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Originally Posted by valo403
The league owns the Hornets. This is a completely unique situation.
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I may have been confused but I thought the trade was nixed during the league approval process.
If the trade was nixed as part of the league owning the team the GM should have been informed their GM to not take any trade offers for Paul before it even got this far.
I still think the reasoning for nixing the trade is B.S., if you are the league owning the team the only reason the trade should be nixed if it was not in the best interest of the team, the league should not be managing New Orleans with the best interest of the league in mind.
Nixing the trade was not done in the best interest of the Hornets who will now lose him for nothing at the end of the season, the Hornets were getting three good players and and 1st overall pick and that is a pretty good return.
Nixing the trade was done to save face for the ownership group and the NBA who went into negotiations trying to eliminate starts being traded to big markets from the small teams.
Had any of those small teams built a winner like Oklahoma is trying to do, or San Antonio was successful in doing the stars would have stayed. They are just protecting the owners from their own ineptitude in valuing players and building good teams.
Article from Simmons on the subject
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...-nba-christmas