Updated: December 8, 2011, 9:18 pm ET

Chris Paul to Lakers Talks “Dead”

By HOOPSWORLD
Basketball News & NBA Rumors

NBA owners have pushed commissioner David Stern to kill the deal sending Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers, sources tell Y! Sports.

Owners were irate in Board of Governors meeting with Stern, livid that the league-owned Hornets were allowed to make Paul deal, sources say.

The NBA has killed the proposed deal to send Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers, league sources tell Yahoo! Sports.

“The deal is off,” a source involved in the talks tells Y! Sports. “It’s dead.”

via Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports

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