On December 8th, 2011, a deal was agreed upon that would send Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers, Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets and Lamar Odom, Luis Scola, Goran Dragic, and Kevin Martin to the New Orleans Hornets. The deal was never completed. Nearly 9 years on, what has this trade robbed the basketball world of?
A trade that would have changed the face of the NBA, was vetoed by the former NBA Commissioner and the late David Stern for “Basketball reasons”.
The New Orleans Pelicans then made a deal with the Lakers’ cross-city rivals the Los Angeles Clippers.