conducting trades and signing became official a blockbuster trade that involved the New Orleans Hornets the Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets went down. The Trade was to send Lakers big man Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets and the Lakers were to get Chris Paul and the New Orleans hornets Luis Scola and Kevin Martin of the Houston Rockets but the plug was pulled on the trade by the Commis- sioner of the NBA David Stern. Teams would again go to their drawing boards in the meantime the Dallas Mavericks lost Center Tyson Chan- dler to the New York Knicks as he was signed by the Knicks, the Knicks meanwhile lost Guard Chauncey Billups who had ask to be waived and he was immediately picked off of waivers by the Los Angeles Clippers a team that no one was expecting to make a big splash in free agency and trades but they did. Most basketball watchers were expecting the Clip- pers to eventually lose the service of last year’s Slam Dunk Champion Blake Griffin to a contender but the Los Angeles Clippers had designs of their own and with that came a trade that would send Guard Eric Gordon


and Center Chris Kaman to the New Orleans Hornets for the Services of Chris Paul. In an earlier move they had signed Swing man Caron Butler


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