A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* This is awesome. A Taiwanese animation recaps the NBA lockout.
* CBS Sports’ Ken Berger lays down the options for Chris Paul. Unless he’s willing to take a massive hit financially, he can forget about the Knicks.
* Besiktas retires Deron Williams’ jersey after just 15 games. Good luck trying to top that.
* Some NBA ‘legends’ are set to play an exhibition game in China. Among the participants: Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Penny Hardaway, Gary Payton, Clyde Drexler and Voshon Lenard (what the???).
* ESPN’s master blogger Henry Abbott walks us through the final media stakeout of the labour negotiations.
* The nuts and bolts of the new amnesty provision.
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Let’s look at this properly. Chris Paul will lose BIG money if he goes ANYWHERE but New Orleans. At least $26m if it is any other team in the leauge. So if he hopes on winning, he will lose significant cash. I’m pretty sure the fame, exposure, endoresments, thrill and fun playing with some of your best friends in one of the biggest cities in America/the world will help him deal with that loss of salary.
Why would Paul stay the course with the Hornets? David West? No.
Paul will not be a Hornet in a year, and maybe even sooner than that he will be gone.
Chris Paul’s gone, that’s a given, but there is no way the Knicks land him in a trade. They have ZERO trade assets to make the deal for Paul and NO are not going to give him away for scrap. He will be dealt to someone before the deadline (lets hope sooner) and I think the most likely options are Boston (for Rondo, apparently they would take the risk without Paul committing to them), Clippers (for some combo of their young pieces/and the T-Wolves lottery pick they own in 2012) or the Lakers (Bynum etc.).
So, assuming that free agency is his only realistic option to get to the Knicks (which it is), will he really give up $42m (“Even if the Knicks tore down the roster to just Anthony and Stoudemire, they’d only have $13.5 million of cap space to offer Paul in 2012-13 — resulting in a four-year, $58 million deal under the new rules. So it would be in the Hornets’ interests to urge Paul to determine if playing for the Knicks is worth a $42 million pay cut”) and would he be ok with the fact that he will be paid far less than Amare or Melo, two players that he is superior to, when he can still get his money and land in a desirable spot somewhere else(especially the West, where the competition won’t be as fierce at the top in the coming years)? I may be wrong but I don’t think so.
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