In early December the Los Angeles Lakers, New Orleans Hornets, and Houston Rockets executed a three-team deal that would have sent Lamar Odom, Luis Scola, Kevin Martin, Goran Dragic, and a 2012 first-round draft pick to the Hornets, Pau Gasol to the Rockets, and Chris Paul to the Lakers. Now, as we all know, David Stern nixed that trade and Paul was eventually traded to the Los Angeles Clippers. But after the trade was shot down, and Lamar Odom was dealt to the Dallas Mavericks because his feelings were hurt, some people around the league still felt that the Lakers would deal Gasol to the Rockets. Gasol clearly knew that the Lakers wanted to trade and it seemed that the Rockets wanted Gasol as they were willing to give up two very good players just to get him.
Ever since that day there hasn’t really been much talk between the two teams and it was unsure if the Rockets were even interested in Gasol anymore. Well according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports the Rockers are s...
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