http://www.dallasbasketball.com/fullColumn.php?id=3320 Here lies the idea of DUST-for-Superstar. Born July 7, 2009 (with David Lord as midwife). Died July 13, 2010, with a Tuesday morning correspondence from the Mavs to the Hornets – the purpose, the last of a series of exhaustive attempts to trade for Chris Paul. In the end, however, the patient DUST-for-Superstar could not be resuscitated. DUST-for-Superstar lived a clever and fanciful life of potential, but it was a short life. DUST-for-Superstar is survived by … well, it’s survived by the next time the Mavs use assets to chase a player of Chris Paul’s caliber, a concept that can be birthed by simply making another phone call to New Orleans. It’s true. The Mavs called the Hornets on Tuesday morning. They offered Erick Dampier’s expiring contract for Chris Paul. Dallas was also willing to include “the kitchen sink’’ – which you can read as everything including Roddy Beaubois and multiple No. 1 picks and cash. The Hornets said “no’’ one final time to the $13 mil of relief Erick Dampier’s expiring contract provides … and Dallas pulled that plug, turning back to its simultaneous talks with Minnesota for Al Jefferson and its talks with Charlotte for Tyson Chandler … pushed one more time for the Wolves to take DUST but not take picks … and then created DUST-for-Chandler. Folks, I’m almost reluctant to put this into a headline again … I know it tortures you so. … but it’s true: On Tuesday, with the Chandler proposal on the table (having been judged by the Mavs as being superior to the variety of Jefferson proposal), Mavs officials contacted Hornets officials. One last time. New Orleans maintained its summer-long stance on Paul. The Hornets will simply not seriously entertain offers for their superstar point guard. The Mavs tried to convince and cajole and tempt. There is some logic that says a Hornets franchise with some financial issues that is seemingly going nowhere while CP3 makes noises about wanting to bolt should listen. New Orleans did not listen. The Mavs wondered if New Orleans’ change at general manager might create a new information exchange. It did not. The Mavs wondered if New Orleans’ issues with its ownership change might melt the iceberg. They did not. The Mavs wondered if New Orleans’ situation moved them even an inch toward desperation. It has not. The Mavs came away convinced the Hornets truly want to retain Paul – to approach their circumstance just as Toronto spent the last year approaching theirs with Chris Bosh (hang on, hang on, hope to make him happy, salvage something when that approach fails). That can always change, of course. If it does, Dallas obviously knows the phone number to Hornets HQ. But the Hornets were not going to do Paul for DUST. Fine. Last rites for DUST-for-Superstar. So DUST goes to Charlotte, and don’t spend too much time worrying that the Bobcats will now flip DUST and get CP3 for themselves; the Bobcats’ plan is more frugal than that. (As I wrote this morning: If the rest of the NBA is misreading this, Michael Jordan is a craftier exec than he even was a player. But yes, get ready to draw-and-quarter Donnie of MJ gets CP3 for Damp.) The only positive news here: While DUST-for-Superstar is dead, the Mavs’ recognition that they need one is not. While the idea of trading Dampier + Roddy B + kitchen sink for Chris Paul is dead, the willingness to revisit all of this – only with a package of Roddy B + Butler + kitchen sink – exists. You can get excited by the slim possibility here or you can protect yourself from the roller coaster and ignore the slim possibility here. (How many times should I type “slim’’ here?) So consider this a spoiler alert: The Mavs’ deal-making assets remain. Chris Paul is still out there. Other star players are, too. A Mavs fan wrote this morning on DB.com Boards that (paraphrasing) he is "sick of waiting for the second superstar we keep promising ... I've been waiting six years!'' A six-year wait for a second superstar? Try a 30-year wait, my young friend. That's how challenging it can be. But Dallas can’t make somebody give them a superstar. They also can’t guarantee that even if Paul (or whomever) is available, that they will beat Portland or New Jersey or San Antonio or New York to get him. All they can do is offer. And convince and cajole and tempt. And call repeatedly, as the Mavs did again on Tuesday morning, hoping to keep DUST-for-Superstar alive. One final time. 小牛曾打给黄蜂 提供Dampier合约+波霸+两个第一轮签换CP3 不过黄蜂拒绝 黄蜂拒绝後 小牛回去找灰狼问要不要交易Al 之後就变成现在的 Dampier换Chandler --

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