Breaking News! Reports have been circulating that the LA Lakers is set to acquire Chris Paul in a deal that includes two other teams.
According to Yahoo! Sports, the Lakers will be sending Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom for Paul. The Lakers are finalizing the trade with Paul's old team, the New Orleans Hornets and the Houston Rockets. In the deal,Gasol will be sent to Houston. New Orleans will then receive Odom and Houston guards Kevin Martin and Goran Dragic and Argentinian Luis Scola.
The deal is not yet final but its getting close.
UPDATE:
Yahoo! Sports has reported that the Chris Paul deal was blocked by NBA commissioner David Stern after other teams in the league have complained. According to Adrian Wojranowski of Yahoo! Sports, "Some owners pushed Stern to demand that trade be nullified, and the Hornets be made to keep Paul on the roster for the foreseeable future, sources said. A chorus of owners were irate with the belief that the five-month lockout had happened largely to stop big-market teams from leveraging small-market teams for star players pending free agency."
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