Last month there was a new Boss Stern interview where he talked about the vetoed trade and Stern himself said they had a 1st lined up for Odom, something you've always dismissed as fan fiction.

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On the podcast, Stern said he felt the trade could have been reworked but said talks fell apart when Kupchak traded Odom days after the original deal was vetoed.

"In the course of the weekend, we thought we could redo the deal," Stern said. "We really thought that Houston would be ready to part with [Kyle] Lowry, and we had a trade lined up for Odom that would have gotten us a good first-round draft pick. Not we, but my basketball folks.

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Posted by ShamelessPel

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Posted on 6/21/17 at 10:24 pm to TigerinATL

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Last month there was a new Boss Stern interview where he talked about the vetoed trade and Stern himself said they had a 1st lined up for Odom, something you've always dismissed as fan fiction.

So a late lottery pick, dragic, scola, 2nd for CP3 with the potential that Houston would have traded Lowry instead of one of those pieces, presumably the 1st or Dragic? In hindsight Dragic and Lowry are better pieces than anything the Pels landed. I guess it's unfair to Demps to say he didn't see anything there ahead of time.

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Posted by Jester

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Posted on 6/21/17 at 10:28 pm to TigerinATL

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we had a trade lined up for Odom that would have gotten us a good first-round draft pick. Not we, but my basketball folks.

So, Dell told him that. Yet Houston's GM who is far craftier and smarter couldn't swing anything approaching a "good first-round" pick? Frankly, I wouldn't expect Stern to say he vetoed it because Dell is incompetent.

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