Jeanie Buss Shares Behind-The-Scenes Story Of Failed Lakers Chris Paul Trade | ALL THE SMOKE 

Along with tanking TWO straight seasons in order to draft Lebron

@@benw7367 the cavs didn't purposely tank tho. They just always suck cuz nobody wants to play there unless they get drafted there

I recall a play-by-play and analyst calling them out one game. At the time it was common knowledge like this years okc team tanking this season.

@@benw7367 you know LeBron was already in Miami when all this happened right?

@@antione they were preparing to sign LeBron after his Heat contract expired by getting a couple of good picks to support him.

@Samad Khalid which is why you have to look at the context of a player's career instead of just stats. Kobe would've gotten 2 more rings at least with CP3, which is why GM's feared that tandem so much. They cried like pussies and complained. They knew what time it was if that trade had happened.

@@donniewarren8363 it truly shows what the NBA thought of Kobe. If Kobe could take Pau Gasol, a 10-20 rank player, to 3 Finals, imagine prime CP3, a top 10 player with Kobe. Would've guaranteed at least 3+ Finals appearances and 1-2 More Rings. Only just adding CP3 to Kobe and people were scared but Lebron teaming with Wade AND Bosh and people thought meh, beatable. And KD, Steph, Klay, Draymond, Iggy in GSW too people didn't think it was as OP as Kobe & CP3. crazy

For Kobe as well, he could have tied MJ in rings

He’d have blown a hammy

Lakers vs Heat, finally a Kobe and LeBron finals match up

He'd still have 0 rings

@@edscottable haha can’t trust cp3

And Chris Paul would have a ring.

Idk those Heat teams were really good plus how is CP3 fitting in the triangle. Lakers fan btw

@@jmarsh2314 Mavs and Spurs beat them. CP3 played great with Harden off ball at times. It would have worked.

Lakers strength was their length which is what they would of lost the trade would of made them worse

@@FupaDoncic plus that heat team beat a very young OKC team and they act like it was a big deal claiming they win a handful after too LMAO dirt plus the next one they won because of a old Ray Allen who's really one of the best shooters ever literally plus he's clutch too their chips are not all that great labron greater at losing chips then winning them LOL 😁

It wouldn't of mattered. Owners were suspicious about David Stern being an acting representative for the team. It was a conflict of interest.

@@wileyjohnson5681 it wasn’t a conflict. Somebody had to run the team until the ownership situation worked itself out. That’s how it was supposed to be according to league bylaws until an owner was in place

@@toppdogg2815 Topp Dogg what happen with the previous owner for the New Orleans Hornets that allowed David Stern to act as the acting governor?

It wasn't just the GM fault though, the lakers were actively talking to him so it was BOTH their faults. They tried to cheat and got caught.

Lob city was overrated, not a real winner. Kobe and CP wins chips

Kobe would have been tied with mj damn it man this trade would have been something and it would have changed the game lakers would have been a big problem

Don’t forget Lamar Odom’s life had a downward spiral after this trade too

Nah. They would’ve ended up bumping heads. Wouldn’t have worked out.

@@ceasarnunez5652 i think winning would have changed that cp3 & bean would have got along

@@camerondrain8166 yeah thats true damn i almost forgot he was on that team to

Exactly

How would that even be possible. None of those players were on the lakers.

How would that even be possible. None of those players were even on the lakers and the contracts don't even make sense 🤔💭. So they were about to pay kobe, gasol, cp3, and dwight howard...sounds good huh 🙄🤣

True that 👍🏼 ✊🏻

while jax is beside him stoned out of his mind lol

UCLA just cranks out articulate alumni (not sure if Barnes graduated though), just think of all the Bruins behind the mic now.

Would’ve finally got to see Bron vs Kobe in the finals. Now it’s just a dream game. Rip GOAT KB24💜💛💜💛

This is when you know kobe put fear on these owners, if people forget these same owners started getting upset when pau went to the Lakers they knew if kobe had any type of help they were going to win rings, same thing happen here owners cried and said not fair because any help kobe had he was going to beat lebron and his Heatles and kobe might of ed with another 2 peat or 3peat kobe realistically should of ended with 8 or 7 rings. And funny how the league has never bitch and moan about other superstars having 3 or 4 all stars on their teams, but they went ballistic to the point that David had no choice because they didn't want kobe to win more rings not just the Lakers but kobe and passing Jordan in rings.

League shot themselves in the foot, would have had the best ratings in league history.

@@Crazyallstar714 Most definitely kobe would of beat lebron, what gasol didn't have in terms of being a bull his 1st year in that laker 2 peat when the Celtics exposed gasol, Chris Paul already had that he was good enough to win 50+ win seasons he just needed a alpha who could of taught him the way how to advance over that 1st round. What a shame man what a shame.

f dwight, Kobe Cp3 and Gasol

Yeah the league didn’t want it’s biggest star to win titles 🙄

You didn’t hear anything Jeanie said, the Clippers offered the best deal. Simple

@@drewski103 They don’t want anyone to threaten their god Jordan

exactly

@Tcs 10s Hell LeBron old af. What's your point? Dude was still easily top 3 in the league at that time.

Facts 💯

💯💯💯

they was crying when kobe got pau gasol. they had to veto the trade cuz it would have been rings for Kobe and CP3. they want a guy with a spotless off the court life and thats lebron. that's wen i knew the nba is rigged

@@elpermic how. They lose both Gasol and Odom in that trade

stern specifically said he wouldnt get involved in basketball operations. The trade should have gone through. "basketball reasons" isnt valid to veto a trade. Meanwhile, silver lets stars under contract demand trades and who they are going to be traded to. I'd of sat Harden and Davis on the bench with years left on their deal. 0 reason to trade them for scrubs with years left on their deals. Davis won Lebron a ship that he should not have gotten. Shoulda traded him to atlanta or charlotte and made him play out the 2 years left on his deal on terrible teams out of spite.

@@chadjackson4786 owners veto trades all the time man and at the time he was the owner. The GM thought he had the authority to make the deal and he did not because the CBA hadn’t even been ratified yet by the other owners. He jumped the gun and it cost them

@@chadjackson4786 you sound dumb. Players always have said where they wanted to go when they ask for a trade. It only happens if the pieces make sense. You don’t sit a guy who doesn’t wanna play for you until his contract is over. You never wanna be left with nothing. You shouldn’t speak on this topic again lol

@@pandabear1576 ofc teams dont want to be left with nothing but players these days have way too much power. if you dont want to play for your team maybe you shouldnt have signed a long term contract

@@cohp4d players don’t have too much power. They have slightly less than equal power. Secondly, they sign long term deals due to a mutual understanding that both sides would work to make the team a championship contender. If one sides fails to work in that direction then the other goes in a different direction. Nobody complains when teams offload guys in order to get better even if they’re still signed for 3 more years. Stop all this bs ass whining.

🤦🏽‍♂️ EXACTLY

He still is a top 5 PG of all time but would have made his case so much better

@@mancavegaming9321 who you got top 5? Just curious

Doubt it. CP stay hurt

@@ABasedTohan nah cp is top 10

Exactly Dan fumbling the bag 🤦🏽‍♂️

@@LTRUTH334 they all did, this wasn't one-sided, it just got leaked too early.

@@kaydee1485 tru

@@LTRUTH334 Jeanie knows how to spin it to leave the Lakers spotless.

How is a dying Odom and a bunch of role players better than a young Gordon who was balling, an expiring contract in kaman, some role players, and future picks with a high first round pick from Minnesota?

Facts

Yeah true, realistically kobe would of ended with 7 rings. 🤷‍♂️

Frfr

The lady literally just explained what happened....

@@drosims7993 LITERALLY...... but mofos wanna believe what they want....

@@ohhhyeahhh1174 I love how y'all act like sports is guaranteed. Them getting Chris Paul didn't guarantee them shit and the league didn't give a fuck about how many rings Kobe had or didn't have

Nah dude...it was still Stearn...

@@momohue6432 It wasn't Stern goofy. You heard her say how it went down.

@@jmcgee39 no it was Stern as acting gm of the Hornets he should of let other teams make an offer for CP even if he was sending him to Lakers

@@mistahchau7353 they clearly stated stern was acting governor and the GM didn’t go through protocol

@@theklr so who was the gm

Cause it’s bullshitn

It didn’t. We’ve known this for a long time lol

This was known from the very beginning. Fans who had no idea what they were talking about spread the league veto story, and morons just ran with it.

@@jarrettpeeples9745 being moron and clueless is to pretend that in 2011 any fan could spread any rumors like it was 2020..ESPN and alike, at the time, ran with that story...😂😂But you can pretend that "fans" on social media at that kind of pull 10+ years ago😂

Man we would have had Lakers x Heat finals, not in a bubble, both superteams, Kobe vs LeBron, shit would be epic Edit: I believe it would be in 2013 when we got Dwight and i think the Lakers would win

Her Brother had nothing to do with this, he didn't run things back then. This was all on David Stern trying to "keep the competition even" throughout the league

@@kingstonshacklebolt1431 not true-listen to her story. The league was on lock down. Jim Buss initiated the trade; if he had spent a moment to talk to Jeanie she would’ve advised him to lay low.

@@25mL didn’t she the gm of the Pelicans was rushing things ?

@@25mL no she said the GM of New Orleans didn’t follow protocol. She didn’t say a word about her brother

@@toppdogg2815 her brother still conducted the trade.

Not just the GM but the Lakers as well. They should hv both sat on their hands during the lockout. Jeanie has been in the business enough to know how to spin it in her team's favour.

@@kaydee1485 True

​@@kaydee1485 the father actually was running a lot, she was kind of forced in a role that she may never have had to before and it was new to her. Regardless, Paul didn't go to the Lakers but it's cool to see why now lmao

How exactly do you figure that when Gasol & Odom were already gone & the Lakers had no bench, no interior defense and an awful coach?

@@lynnerose7891 the one thing is it would become a hotspot for talent. You are an all star level free agent on the wrong side of thirty…yeah do a one year deal to go play with Kobe and Paul for a ring.

Exactly!!!! Didnt hear Jimmy's name 1 time. Like the GM of New Orleans made the trade by themselves lol

She fired that loser

That’s a given .. no brainer but ya I get what u mean

Easy choice my man d wade I have to keep at 3

Smart guy. We'll all die eventually. Trivial things don't matter when we die

Rings are the most important thing in sports. You play to win a ring.

Kobe put fear on those owners thats why they didn't want kobe to win more then 6 rings.

@@kkuwana I’m laughing so hard at your comment... lmao.

They fucked up the trade

Can I ask you sth? Why wouldn't they want Kobe to be the face of the league? Wasn't it more that they didn't want him to get more rings?

@@bollocksnlilies Both anyone that knows basketball knows they didn't want him to be the face of the league he's already an icon 2 more rings would have made him the legit GOAT, and they didn't want a player that was accused of rape/abuse be the face the league and basketball as a whole. Smh we all know that white girl lied on the Beans name 🤦🏽‍♀️

@@madelynrosaxoxo5490 Yes two more rings would have made him the goat probably, except the jordan fans would scream that kobe lost in the finals too so his record isn't perfect. From my perspective as an international fan over 30, kobe became the face of the league after MJ. It just didn't last long for many reasons and part of it might have been that case against him, but that wasn't part of the discussion outside of the US. He had always been beloved and still is. I guess we mostly watched him play and didn't listen to the sports media much.

"With all due respect us non-NBA team owners know exactly what went on behind closed doors at an NBA owners meeting while we were working our 9-5.". Fixed that for you

@@bollocksnlilies That's real that definitely played a part because media always changes people's perception/view of things

Facts

Dan who?

Dell Demps should have waited?

I meant to say Dan Gilbert shouldn’t have been bitching and The GM at the time for New Orleans Hornets should have waited my bad

I love how people assume shit. There was no guarantee they won any championships

@@toppdogg2815 facts

@@toppdogg2815 : No they would have🤣 its Kobe and Chris Paul

@@connorbradby765 Agreed

@@connorbradby765 there are no guarantee in sports man, but again people who have envy played at any level says shit like that

thank you!

Kobe started his career on a team with Shaquille O’Neil my guy

I agree 1000% with everything you just said!👌🏾👏🏾

She literally just explained what tf happened, goofball. It wasn’t about Kobe’s trash ass.

@@moseshanon7060 ay shit still hurts i wanted that shit to happen badly, I’ll be that goofball broski, you think Kobe’s trash that’s your opinion you’re entitled too lol that’s fine bro we’re human we have different emotions 💀

@@desean619 I don’t “think”, it’s literally fact. Kobe was a volume shooter, nuthin’ more🤷🏾‍♂️. I always found it funny how anybody outside of California speak truth to life, yet y’all always & forever love livin’ in smoking mirrors.

@@moseshanon7060 i feel you bro still won’t cancel my love for the goat Kobe but i understand bro you’re titled to “think” whatever you want who am i to tell you different lol

Whatever stats or facts show it’s still RIP #24 till ♾

Saving her bro and backing up the bus of the GM 😩

On Playstation

No. You were not a Laker fan. So how would you know. Pau was a product of the system. He was a 7footer who played the system well. But CP and Kobe playing together with Dwight would have been much more intense offensively.

Kobe and CP3 would have been a nice back court but they would have needed more than that to win titles.

I think at least 6 but who knows Paul normally got hurt around playoff time man was cursed when he had a chance to win it all

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That’s so crazy to think about !!

Ask Luka how that worked out for em

Yeah, he vetoed the trade because the other owners didn't want it to go through. And as the ownership group of the Hornets at that time, that was their right. I don't know what is so hard for you guys to understand about that.

hornets also got young dragic in the trade.

Speak them facts

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@@OGSVN dragic was not projected to be a star. not even a starter. Just look at his numbers when he was young. Eric Gordon > Dragic. And they received future picks especially with the high 1st round pick from Minnesota

@@rossejera1661 don’t look at box scores - watch games. 2nd year dragic completely took over a playoff game against the spurs. he was literally supposed to be the heir to nash in phoenix, &it’s not like he was the main piece in the trade and they only got one pick in the trade (which turned into austin rivers - hindsight, i know) &hindsight again, EG didn’t even want to be in new orleans. stern made the trade to help sell the team, not to make them a better basketball team.

That lebron vs Jordan does not make sense at all, but I bet I know why and it all comes down to his rape trial, think about it also why the league doesn't want kobe as the logo. While lebron is a goody two shoes even IF they know lebron is not in that area it makes sense for them because he has a squeaky clean record. Kobe had a more realistic chance to surpass Jordan then lebron and it has taken lebron 12+ years basically while for kobe it would of taken him 9xs in the finals.

@@ohhhyeahhh1174 i agree! Def about the rape trail but also part of me wonders if the rape trail was part of the plan to taint Kobe. He already had 3 rings so Jordan must’ve felt threatened. 👀

Exactly everybody knows Kobe is closet to Jordan but they keep forcing Lebron James down our throats. It's sickening.

Delusional lmao

@@allgastrucking4954 that how we know the whole is rigged just for lebron who not better than shaq

Dwight had back problems .......

@@mr3000sr of course he did when he made 10 babies with 10 baby mama's bruh get on it stop being racist

Dwight wouldn't of came until the following year. Meanwhile LA loses both Gasol and Odom for Chris Paul. They don't do 💩 💩. Losing those players

She just told you... the owner of said Lakers...... big 💴 talks.....it’s her team .... she don’t have to lie.....

MVPs 1 to 5 Finals MVPs could’ve been 3-6 he still don’t compare

You all just choose to remain ignorant it’s insane

And kobes achilles

I think D’Antoni was coach.

@@FirstnameLastname-qb2bg No. In the 2011 offseason right after the Mavericks sweep in the WCSF Phil Jackson retired due to health issues and then the Lakers replaced him with Mike Brown who coached well through the 2011-12 Season after Chris Paul got sent to the Clippers instead. It wasn't until the beginning of the 2012-13 Season after the Lakers got Dwight Howard when the Lakers replaced Brown with D'Antoni.

@@joshwonkim0895 I saw after I posted, you’re right.