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Written by SarahW|Saturday, 10 December 2011 12:13

NBA teams went back to work yesterday, which for Chris Paul meant going back to New Orleans. And there was disbelief and anger around the league - and a commitment to try again to find him a new home. Commissioner David Stern killed the Hornets' first attempt at moving their All-Star point guard, but New Orleans general manager Dell Demps is working to put together a new deal and make the people buy tickets of the game. "Yes. People are still calling,'' Demps said. "People are still calling and we're calling people, so we're confident we can get a deal.''

Paul could have been in Los Angeles yesterday, ready to pair up with Kobe Bryant as the next star representing sports in Hollywood. That fell apart Thursday when the league, which owns the Hornets, rejected a three-team trade the club had agreed to for "basketball reasons,'' denying the decision came about because of pressure on Stern from irate owners. And instead of the immediate boost the league craved coming out the lockout with free agency and training camps opening, it found itself with another public relations disaster.

NBA Crisis
Paul could have been in Los Angeles yesterday, ready to pair up with Kobe Bryant as the next star representing sports in Hollywood

"That's the first thing I thought. We just got done arguing for four or five months and everyone just wants to see basketball and now this. Huge controversy, again with NBA owners,'' said Minnesota forward Anthony Tolliver, the Timberwolves' player representative. "I just hope it doesn't damage everybody and hope it doesn't affect everybody in the whole league, which I think it possibly could. It's a really big deal.''

The 26-year-old Paul was seen walking into New Orleans' training facility wearing a black Hornets practice jersey but did not speak to the media. "Being a really good friend of mine, like a brother to me, I'm frustrated for him,'' LeBron James said after the Heat's first practice. "I support him and hopefully things get resolved, fast, for him and his family.'' Though he nixed the deal, Stern has reason for wanting the same teams to work something out. If not, and another team eventually makes a trade that is approved, it will be difficult to shake the perception that the league was dictating where it wanted Paul to go.

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