At the end of 2011, when the league had superteams in Miami and Boston, a few solid teams in San Antonio and Dallas, and a couple of budding ones in Chicago, Oklahoma, and Oakland, When Shaquille O’Neal and Lakers Entourage Received Flak for Visiting Seattle Strip Club Lakers and Kobe Bryant tried pulling off something big.
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In a 3-team deal that would send Lamar Odom to the New Orleans Hornets and Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets Lakers would have gotten Chris Paul.
However, the NBA, having the majority owner of the Hornets, called it off. The reason? It all seemed unfair to them.
When Chris Paul and Gilbert Arenas talked about the voided Lakers deal
Chris Paul and Kobe Bryant could have had several championships, but NBA wasn’t ready for them
In an interview with former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas and his co-host Josiah Johnson, CP3 talked about a lot of things that transpired all throughout his long and illustrious career.
And one of the biggest things that couldn’t transpire was his move to the Lakers which would have teamed him up with Kobe Bryant.
Arenas explained to the Point God that even after paying off Bryant, Paul, and Howard’s contract in 2012, the Lakers would be left with a massive $25-30 million salary cap.
“It was too much money after You too got together,” Arenas said.
The Suns point guard doesn’t look like he has any idea of what Arenas are telling him as if it were the first time he heard this.
Both Kobe and CP3 didn’t win championships after that failed trade
Although he was already a 5x NBA champ at the time, Kobe Bryant wanted more to eclipse Michael Jordan in order to become the greatest of all time.
Whereas Chris Paul hadn’t won a championship at the time and waits for the first one in his otherwise tremendous career. Just imagine if David Stern did not interfere in that trade.
