Now, now - just because a Canadian team will never win an NBA championship doesn't mean you need to hate on the whole league.
And it was just announced that the Gasol/Odom/Paul trade is off.
Sources said that a group of NBA owners, assembled in New York for the ratification of the league’s new labor pact with the players, protested vigorously that the league-owned Hornets were trading Paul to the star-studded Lakers and convinced NBA commissioner David Stern to intervene.