NBA Stops Lakers From Getting Chris Paul

The National Basketball Association (NBA) rejected the proposed three-team trade which involves the All-Star Pointguard Chris Paul from the New Orleans Hornets sent to the Los Angeles Lakers.

Part of this agreement is Lamar Odom from the Lakers sent to New Orleans and Pau Gasol from the Lakers to the Houston Rockets.

After the failure of the trade, Chris Paul simply has a "WoW" status in his Twitter account. Lamar Odom also had a message on hi page,"When a team trades u and it doesn't go down? Now what?"

The NBA commissioner David Stern explained that it's not true that the team owners didn't agree in the proposed three-team trade that's why it didn't push through.

"It's not true that the owners killed the deal, the deal was never discussed at the Board of Governors meeting and the league office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons," said league Spokesman Mike Bass.

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NBA 2011-12 Season Schedule Is Now Complete

Even though there's still no official agreement between the team owners and the players about the sharing of the profits in the league, the National Basketball Association (NBA) released their over-all schedule for the 2011-2012 Season.

The 66th Season, where 66 games are to be played instead of 82 for every team, will kick off on Christmas Day after the agreement of the two camps to end the NBA lockout.

The regular season will end on April 26 next year, then the playoff will start on April 28. The Finals will have it's schedule on June 26.

The first two teams to play the opening day are the finalist in the last season, the defending champion Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat.

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NBA Games Kick Off On December 25

After a 149-day lockout, with the first seven weeks done in by the labor dispute, National Basketball Association (NBA) Games will kick off on December 25.

The tournament will be shortened to 66 games and will end on April 26, then the play-offs will start two weeks after.

The agreement was forged over the Thanksgiving weekend, with the players guaranteed  51% of all basketball-related income (57% in the last CBA). The agreement is for 10 years but with each side having the right the opt out after six years. By then we just hope lockout will not happen again.

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