5 years later: Revisiting Chris Paul To The Lakers

[Nowee]

Former commissioner David Stern said he never canceled the proposed 2011 trade of Chris Paul from New Orleans to the Lakers because the GM at the time, Dell Demps, wasn’t authorized to make it, RealGM.com relays via Sports Business Radio. The league had assumed control of the New Orleans franchise, called the Hornets at that time and now the Pelicans, giving Stern the authority to nix it. “The GM was not authorized to make that trade,” Stern said. “And acting on behalf of owners, we decided not to make it. I was an owner rep. There was nothing to ‘void.’ It just never got made.”

Source:
http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/244231/David-Stern-There-Was-Never-A-Chris-Paul-To-Lakers-Trade-To-Void

[JSD]

The Lakers would never have traded for Steve Nash too, right?