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Eric Gordon, “Clippers Lied To Me About Trade”

Published: 5th Jan 12 12:25 am
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by Joshua Casey
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Eric Gordon, “Clippers Lied To Me About Trade”
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After the Los Angeles Clippers successfully traded for Chris Paul it seemed fair that they, along with their die-hard fans, would celebrate such a huge transaction. It was a big deal for a team that has toiled in anonymity to many parts of the world for such a long time, seeing how there is another NBA team that is in Los Angeles that usually garners all the media attention. But to two people the trade was somewhat of a disaster, those two people are Eric Gordon and Chris Kaman.

Gordon and Kaman are excited to have a fresh start in New Orleans but have recently said that they are really ticked at their former team, the Los Angeles Clippers. Gordon talked about the Clippers front office in an interview and had this to say, “All you do is take the man’s word and take that he said that no one is going to go anywhere, …To completely lie like that is something unprofessional.”

Similar to the situation with the Los Angeles Lakers, when their trade for Chris Paul was vetoed by NBA commissioner David Stern, the Clippers had a trade in place for Paul but talks stalled on Dec. 12. After this first ordeal Clippers general manager Neil Olshey and head coach Vinny Del Negro held a team meeting with the player’s who had guaranteed contracts, two of which being Gordon and Kaman, and told them that the team would move forward with its current group of players. Now we all know how that turned out, so Gordon and Kaman now feel that they have been deceived, Olshey disagrees.

Olshey offered this rebuttal to Gordon’s comments, “I’m not deceptive enough to look players in the eye and tell them something that is not true, and I can tell you from an ownership level, the president of our company, myself, we made a corporate decision Monday morning that when the deal didn’t go through on Sunday night we would no longer pursue the trade. And that’s when we notified our players, to get the elephant out of the room during our abbreviated training camp.”

Seems like a reasonable explanation but hardly believable, when Olshey had the chance to acquire Chris Paul did anyone really believe that he would pass up the opportunity to acquire him no matter what it took? Especially when, to top it all off, he would be essentially stealing him from their arch-rival, the Los Angeles Lakers who were willing to part with Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom just to acquire him. But I digress, Olshey said that when New Orleans front office personnel, or NBA officials who were orchestrating the trade for the Hornets, called him back to restart trade talks he was, “surprised”, to say the least.

Even after hearing what Olshey had to say Gordon still isn’t buying what he had to say, “They literally told me as an organization that they wanted to keep me, and (the trade still) went down?” Certainly Gordon and Kaman have a reasonable gripe as they were not even told face to face, or even called, to be told they news. Gordon found out on Twitter and Kaman was told by his real-estate agent’s son. Kaman didn’t exactly have nice words for his old franchise either, “The Clippers didn’t tell me anything. They didn’t tell me I was traded or nothing after eight years. They didn’t have the guts to come tell me they traded me.”

Gordon and Kaman have reason to be mad but the good news is that with the Clippers track record of horrible luck and bad breaks Gordon and Kaman will probably win an NBA championship with the Hornets before the Clippers ever do.

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