I'm just a casual NBA fan, so I'm a little uneducated about this. Why would the league stop him going to the Lakers?
The same reason why the NBA nixed the deal sending CP3 to the Lakers..they didnt want the Lakers to become a championship team again..you would have had Kobe+Chris Paul+Dwight Howard(Eventually that would have happened) and the NBA didnt want it to happen..David Stern is a Socialist, he had once said that he doesn’t think its right for one NBA team to keep on winning, that every team deserves a “Right” to win a title..he doesn’t want Kobe to get his six ring