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  • Worst trades in NBA history

    I thought of making a thread about this after reading this article. According to it, the following were the worst trades ever:

    2008 - Pau Gasol to the Lakers and Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, Aaron McKie, Marc Gasol's rights and future Draft picks to the Grizzlies.
    2004 - Rasheed Wallace to the Pistons and Željko Rebrača, Bob Sura, Chis Mills and a future Draft 1st round pick to the Hawks.
    1998 - Dirk Nowitzki (Draft no. 6 pick) to the Mavericks and Pat Garrit to Phoenix and Robert Traylor to the Bucks.
    1996 - Vlade Divac to the Hornets and Kobe Bryant (Draft no. 13 pick rights) to the Lakers.
    1992 - Charles Barkley to the Suns and Jeff Hornacek, Andrew Lang and Tim Perry to the 76ers.
    1980 - Joe Barry Carroll to the Warriors and Robert Parish and Kevin McHale to the Celtics.
    1976 - Gail Goodrich to the Jazz and Magic Johnson (Draft no. 1 pick) to the Lakers.
    1975 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the Lakers and Brian Winters, Elmore Smith, Junior Bridgeman and Dave Meyers to the Bucks.
    1965 - Wilt Chamberlain to the 76ers and Connie Derking, Paul Neumann and Lee Shaffer to the Warriors.


    Do you agree with these? Can you think of more disastrous trades?
    I guess one of the worst ones (or best ones ) has to be Pau's.
    Die Liebe wird eine Krankheit, wenn man sie als eine Heilung sieht
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  • #2
    For Alcindor and Chamberlain's deal, they were asked by the players who didn't want to play anymore in Milwaukee for the newly renamed Kareem Abdul Jabbar (he wanted to leave for a team with bigger muslim community), or to go to the West coast for Wilt Chamberlain, who remained in Philadelphia I think, and never left with his team to go to play in San Francisco.

    Another one:

    Kidd vs Marbury--> Nets becoming contender in the East simultabeously, Suns missing twice the players in 3 years, after being in playoffs for more than 15 consecutive years I think.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by damelo
      Kidd vs Marbury--> Nets becoming contender in the East simultabeously, Suns missing twice the players in 3 years, after being in playoffs for more than 15 consecutive years I think.
      Oh yes, a trade to get Marbury is certainly an awful trade
      Die Liebe wird eine Krankheit, wenn man sie als eine Heilung sieht
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      • #4
        shaq to the heat , odom,grant and butler to the lakers(2005) ...this should be in the top 10 ....

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        • #5
          Dennis Rodman for Will Purdue.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by karim
            shaq to the heat , odom,grant and butler to the lakers(2005) ...this should be in the top 10 ....
            Especially after trading Caron Butler for Kwame Brown.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by ArnoldPettybone
              Dennis Rodman for Will Purdue.
              One of the best maybe, but, one of the worse? At least, San Antonio sent away a player that had a personnality problem with Pop's style, so...

              @ alermac: but then, they got away with Gasol, so...
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              • #8
                An important question to ask is whether or not the trades were justifiable. LA wanted to kill Shaq, so trading for two good players in Odom and Butler was a good deal for them. Dirk Nowitzki, Kobe Bryant, and Magic Johnson were not prover NBA players, and all three of them had the potential to be terrible players. Željko Rebrača and Bob Sura were both fine players when they were traded, and Atlanta got financial flexibility.

                The three worst are the trades for Kareem, Chamberlain, and Pau. Kareem and Chamberlain were proven NCAA players at a time when the NCAA was almost as good as the NBA. It was probably clear that they would be succesful professional players. Gasol was a proven NBA player at the time of his trade, while the most important part of that trade for Memphis (the rights to Marc Gasol) is bad, because there are always obstacles when transferring players form overseas to the US. If Marc Gasol never plays for Memphis, which is a good possibility, the trade will be awful, awful, awful. If he does come to Memphis, the trade will be bad, bad, bad still, because Pau is an incredible player who was traded for very little.

                So, those are the three worst: Chamberlain, Kareem, Pau. I think the Kareem trade was the worst. He's one of my top 3 all-time players, so it's a total shame for Kareem to be traded off.
                "I really like the attitudes of eagles. They never give up. When they grab a fish or something else, they never let it go. It doesn't matter. In a book, they write they find a skeleton of [an] eagle and there is no fish. It means that the fish beat him and killed him, but he didn't let go." -- Donatas Motiejunas

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                • #9
                  Well, Kareem at that time had already won a championship with Milwaukee I think, and was their superstar. So he was already more than a great NCAA player.

                  And Chamberlain had already made all his records about scoring.

                  Both of them were proven NBA MEGAstars if you want my advice. I mean franchise players. And sure to make playoffs every years, if not finals regularly.

                  Still, trades were there for personnal reasons, and not for basketball reasons. Unlike Pau's one. So, on the paper, they may seem worse, but in reality, at least Milwaukee and the Warriors got players that wanted to play for them.
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                  • #10
                    Kareem's trade is not that bad. Brian Winters was a legit scorer, Elmore Smith is one of the greatest blockers of all time, Junior Bridgeman was a newcomer with potential that turned into a productive 6th man and Dave Meyers was a NCAA champ.
                    47-70
                    76-58

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by rikhardur
                      1998 - Dirk Nowitzki (Draft no. 6 pick) to the Mavericks and Pat Garrit to Phoenix and Robert Traylor to the Bucks.
                      This was a pre-arranged deal. Only two teams were interested in Dirk (Pitino's Celtics and Don Nelson's Mavs), Milwaukee was merely selecting for Dallas.

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                      • #12
                        this once doesn't get mention alot, but it's one of the largest (and worst from Dallas's side) trades in history:

                        1997: Dallas trades Sam Cassell, Jim Jackson, Chris Gatling (an all-star that year), George McCloud, and Eric Montross for Shawn Bradley, Robert Pack, Khalid Reeves, and Ed O'Bannon.

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                        • #13
                          Scottie Pippen (drafeted by Sonics) for Olden Polynice plus cash to the Bulls and the rest is history!

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                          • #14
                            The thing with the Kareem trade is that he told the Bucks he wanted out and that there was zero chance he would re-sign with them when his contract was up at the end of the season, so they took what they could get for him.

                            Wizards made a pretty awful trade when they sent Richard Hamilton, Bobby Simmons, and Hubert Davis to Detroit for Jerry Stackhouse, Brian Cardinal, and Ratko Varda.
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                            • #15
                              Washington Wizards want give Gilbert Arenas 127 mln dolars for another 6 years. Arenas say NO! He tell that he want only ... 111 mln dolars

                              “What can I do for my family with $127 million that I can’t do with $111 million?”

                              “I’m basically giving back $16 million. This is in line with what I’ve been saying the whole time. You see players take max deals and they financially bind their teams. I don’t wanna be one of those players and three years down the road your team is strapped and can’t do anything about it. It’s a relief. It was a burden at the same time. Your whole city is depending on you, wondering if you’re going to make the right decision. I’m a franchise player and sometimes franchise players need to make franchise decisions.”

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