Font Size: The NBA, as owners of the New Orleans Hornets, won’t trade All-Star guard Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers. NBA spokesman Mike Bass says: “It’s not true that the ownerskilled the deal, the deal was never discussed at the Board ofGovernors meeting and the league office declined to make the tradefor basketball reasons.” A person familiar with the trade told The Associated Press thatthe framework for a deal had been in place, but that Paul wouldreport to Hornets camp Friday. Lakers forward Lamar Odom would have gone to New Orleans andfellow Los Angeles forward Pau Gasol to Houston, the third team inthe trade, people told The Associated Press on Thursday. They spokeon the condition of anonymity because the deal was not finalized.