but there is about a 0.001% chance.

I love CP3 though. I just want to see him on a good team.

The concept is good but I don’t think the example provided works in a few different ways:

We lose our starting center and get Brian Cook back. I like Turiaf and all, but he can’t be the only center on our team. CP3 needs a guy like Andris to run the pick n’ roll.

Houston would end up with too much talent in the front court. Okafor is too good to come off the bench. Scola has proven that he works well opposite to Yao, so they would be reluctant not to start him. Landry is showing how good he is this year, and I imagine that they will try to resign him.

we would have to give A) Monta or Curry. B) Randolph. C) Biedrins or Morrow + D) our draft pick. Theres no way new orleans deals a legitimate franchise player who is ummm 24 years old and under contract for anything less than 3 very solid NBA prospects, 2 of whom would have to have all star potential.

I know it sounds fair to trade them 3 of our players but think reverse, what would you want if you had CP3? Aside from lebron, dwight howard, kobe (who is 31)… and then possible Dwade/Melo there isn’t a bigger impact player in nba.

you don’t think NYK would offer Gallinari, expirings and #1 pick? You don’t think the rockets would move many of there players for him? I mean i could go on and on, but basically if CP3 was available, every team would see what they could do

i’m just having visions of a Paul/Monta backcourt.

We need a solid 20 10 PF or C that can take care of the low post, something that we’ve been lacking (ex. bosh, amare, boozer). Our team can score but we are getting killed in second chance points. I think it would be exciting to see CP3 and Ellis play together but we need W’s. I just can’t see us competing against the elite teams like the lakers without a force inside.

i don’t think they would ask for randolph, because they already have david west.

Andris Biendrins+ Steph Curry. One proven player, and one player believed to have allstar talent. if we can find the right third team and the right third player plus our draft pick doesn’t that fit the criteria of 2 or 3 solid NBA players? Then you add a draft pick.

unless he demands a trade and really becomes like BD 2.0 over there then we might.

If we DID get CP3, then wouldn’t we be one of the top teams for Lebron next season.

Cp3
Monta
Lebron
Randolph
Turiaf

Championship baby!

i’m being sarcastic smart guy.

cp3, monta, morrow, Lebron, Mikki Moore.

can’t forget nellie’s infatuation with Mikki Moore.

Who I would trade away for Chris Paul: Monta Ellis, Andris Biedrins, Don Nelson, 5 First Round Draft Picks, my soul, and $50 million in cold hard cash.

And if anybody in the Hornets’ front office had any sense in them, they would still reject that trade.

Let’s put this in a little perspective.

1) You’re Jeff Bower… you’re getting ready for your game against Dallas. You get a call from Riley/Rowell/Nellie/whoever the hell — they offer you Monta, Biedrins, Randolph, Curry, Morrow and Speedy’s expiring contract for CP3 and three crappy contracts.

You know what your immediate answer is? (laugh) “No thanks.” (click)

2) You’re Riley/Rowell/Nellie/whoever the hell, preparing (hopefully) for your game in Philly. Jeff Bower calls and offers you the same deal — CP3 and three bad contracts for your five most promising young players and an expiring.

You know what your immediate answer is? “Holy crap, REALLY?! YES!!!!!!”

There is literally no trade netting us Chris Paul that is not great on our end and horrible on the Hornets’ end. We could throw in three first-round picks and it’d still be worthwhile. Biedrins is injury-prone, Morrow’s limited, Curry hasn’t been good and Monta has been secretly ineffective; the only young Warriors commodity who’s actually playing well is Randolph, and (fairly or not) nobody even trusts him to tie his shoes. Look, I love these guys. And I think they’re not being used to the best of their abilities; I think our coaching has been terrible and counterproductive on every level. But if these guys were actually all that — really good, fully developed, consistently available — they’d outweigh the bad coaching and we’d be doing decently well. We’re not. As things stand, our young guys are just not very good.

Chris Paul, on the other hand, is not only one of the three or four best players in the league, but already one of the best two or three point guards in league history. The best season any Warrior has had in the last fifteen years was probably Baron’s ‘07-’08. By any measurement you can find, Paul was almost twice as valuable as Baron that year; the gap between him and Baron was about as big as the gap between Baron and the corpse of Troy Hudson.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t ask. It’s not impossible that Chris Paul will get unhappy and want out, forcing them to trade him with little leverage. And in that unlikely event, it’s not altogether hand-on-a-Bible 100% mathematically impossible that we would somehow make the offer they like the most. But considering that other teams would offer people like Deron Williams without hesitation, it is really, really, really unlikely.

These lemons of ours are not likely to morph into lemonade; this chicken s*** will not easily become chicken salad. You are not going to turn the nucleus of a bad team into one of the best players of his generation. This is a dream we should probably shelve.