Apparently Dan Gilbert has no balls in his sac. The dude is just pathetic. We all remember how he cried when LeBron left, then tried calling him a quitter. Well he never got over the LeBron ordeal and is now getting in other peoples business. Here is the email he sent to David Stern about the Chris Paul trade.
Commissioner,
It would be a travesty to allow the Lakers to acquire Chris Paul in the apparent trade being discussed.
This trade should go to a vote of the 29 owners of the Hornets.
Over the next three seasons this deal would save the Lakers
approximately $20 million in salaries and approximately $21 million in
luxury taxes. That $21 million goes to non-taxpaying teams and to fund
revenue sharing.
I cannot remember ever seeing a trade where a team got by far the
best player in the trade and saved over $40 million in the process. And
it doesn’t appear that they would give up any draft picks, which might
allow to later make a trade for Dwight Howard.
(They would also get a large trade exception that would help them
improve their team and/or eventually trade for Howard.) When the Lakers
got Pau Gasol
(at the time considered an extremely lopsided trade) they took on tens
of millions in additional salary and luxury tax and they gave up a
number of prospects (one in Marc Gasol who may become a max-salary player).
I just don’t see how we can allow this trade to happen.
I know the vast majority of owners feel the same way that I do.
When will we just change the name of 25 of the 30 teams to the Washington Generals?
Please advise….
Dan G.
Really Stern. You let this punk basically run your job for you? I mean the Lakers are strait up doing good business for their own team and you step in and ruin it for them. Your a tattle tail bro. Only way to put it. If you were still in high school Jerry Buss would have strait up kicked your ass.
