alfdogg 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 I forget what year it was, but we traded for George McGinnis, who was at the end of his career. In exchange...we sent Alex English to the Nuggets. Also, we couldn't have forseen it at the time, but we originally had the pick that was used by Portland to draft Sam Bowie. (If you don't get it you'd better ask somebody.) Discuss. EDIT: I'm talking about the Pacers, btw. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ripper 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Whooooo boy. A Suns fan can live forever in this thread. Lets see. MICHAEL FINLEY, Sam Cassell and ? for Toni Dumas, Jason Kidd and ? Why was this a bad trade? Dallas didn't even want Finley! Phoenix wanted Dumas and threw Finley, coming off a good rookie year, to Dallas. Clifford Robinson(at the time, suns second leading scorer, number 2 rebounder, number one 3 point shooter and best defender down low) for Jud Buchler and John Wallace...neither of whom are in the league now. Stephon Marbury and Penny Haraway for Antonio Mcdyess and Marej Lampe and Howard Eisley. nuff said. Trading Pat Garrity... Um..The Hawks are another fav of mine and they made THE trade.... ... Dominique Wilkins for Danny Manning. When they had the leagues best record...at the allstar break. Toss in the Steve Smith and ? For Jim Jackson and JR Rider and no wonder the team has loss so much. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spaceman Spiff 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 76ers - Moses Malone, Terry Catledge, and 2 first round picks for Jeff Ruland. Ruland played 5 games before injuring his knee, forcing his retirement. Phillies - Ryne Sandberg & Larry Bowa for Ivan DeJesus. No need to elaborate here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lomasmoney 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Um..The Hawks are another fav of mine and they made THE trade.... ... Dominique Wilkins for Danny Manning. When they had the leagues best record...at the allstar break. Wait what, did they also have a GM who dabbled in smoking rock. That may be the most ill-adivsed trade ever Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bored 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 The Warriors have a long history of bad trades but this was probably the worst of all back in 1980: Golden State trades C Robert Parish and No. 3 pick (Kevin McHale) to Boston for the Nos. 1 and 13 picks (Joe Barry Carroll and Rickey Brown) Forget worst in franchise history that was one of the worst trades is sports history. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MikeSC Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Um..The Hawks are another fav of mine and they made THE trade.... ... Dominique Wilkins for Danny Manning. When they had the leagues best record...at the allstar break. Toss in the Steve Smith and ? For Jim Jackson and JR Rider and no wonder the team has loss so much. Rip, these are the same Hawks that outbid the Warriors to keep the services of... Jon Koncak. The mind BOGGLES at that --- somebody else wanted that tall pile of suck, and the Hawks BEAT them to KEEP him. Only man to ever get a standing boo-vation. Who'd they trade Mookie for, anyway? -=Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ripper 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Um..The Hawks are another fav of mine and they made THE trade.... ... Dominique Wilkins for Danny Manning. When they had the leagues best record...at the allstar break. Toss in the Steve Smith and ? For Jim Jackson and JR Rider and no wonder the team has loss so much. Rip, these are the same Hawks that outbid the Warriors to keep the services of... Jon Koncak. The mind BOGGLES at that --- somebody else wanted that tall pile of suck, and the Hawks BEAT them to KEEP him. Only man to ever get a standing boo-vation. Who'd they trade Mookie for, anyway? -=Mike Bimbo fucking Coles. They traded a damn good point guard for a career third stringer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MikeSC Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Um..The Hawks are another fav of mine and they made THE trade.... ... Dominique Wilkins for Danny Manning. When they had the leagues best record...at the allstar break. Toss in the Steve Smith and ? For Jim Jackson and JR Rider and no wonder the team has loss so much. Rip, these are the same Hawks that outbid the Warriors to keep the services of... Jon Koncak. The mind BOGGLES at that --- somebody else wanted that tall pile of suck, and the Hawks BEAT them to KEEP him. Only man to ever get a standing boo-vation. Who'd they trade Mookie for, anyway? -=Mike Bimbo fucking Coles. They traded a damn good point guard for a career third stringer. And they wonder why nobody goes to their games. Mookie for BIMBO? Jesus. I'm still waiting for them to unload Jason Terry for Scottie Pippen and a 2d draft pick. -=Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ripper 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Um..The Hawks are another fav of mine and they made THE trade.... ... Dominique Wilkins for Danny Manning. When they had the leagues best record...at the allstar break. Toss in the Steve Smith and ? For Jim Jackson and JR Rider and no wonder the team has loss so much. Rip, these are the same Hawks that outbid the Warriors to keep the services of... Jon Koncak. The mind BOGGLES at that --- somebody else wanted that tall pile of suck, and the Hawks BEAT them to KEEP him. Only man to ever get a standing boo-vation. Who'd they trade Mookie for, anyway? -=Mike Bimbo fucking Coles. They traded a damn good point guard for a career third stringer. And they wonder why nobody goes to their games. Mookie for BIMBO? Jesus. I'm still waiting for them to unload Jason Terry for Scottie Pippen and a 2d draft pick. -=Mike Well they did give up Glenn Robinsons 20. points a game for Terrell Brandon, Shareff Abdur Rahims 20/10 and Theo Ratliffs league leading shot blocker for, in essense, Wesley Person and Bobby Sura. Goddamn they are incredibly bad negotiators. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MikeSC Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Well they did give up Glenn Robinsons 20. points a game for Terrell Brandon, Shareff Abdur Rahims 20/10 and Theo Ratliffs league leading shot blocker for, in essense, Wesley Person and Bobby Sura. Goddamn they are incredibly bad negotiators. Maybe they want to rope-a-dope the NBA. They're trading talent for draft picks --- and THEY SUCK AT DRAFTING PEOPLE. Good lord, outside of Terry, have they drafted anybody good in the last 10 years? -=Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Crazy Dan Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Another boneheaded Warriors Trade: Mitch Richmond was traded for Billy Owens. Sure the Warriors played no defense, but at least you knew you were going to get entertaining 115-114 games. And if luck in the picks the Warriors would have, you might have had a team with Mullin, Webber, Hardaway, Richmond, Spreewll, Siekley(before he became a bitch), and Gatling off the bench and Tom Tolbert (my favorite anouncer and radio host). Even Nelson says that was the worse decision he made as a GM. Another boneheaded trade, by not my favorite team, was the Vikings trade 7 draft picks for Hershel Walker, and the Cowboys build a three time SuperBowl champion, while the Vikings take an underachiever, who eventually ended back on the Cowboys. Jimmy Johnson gets hailed a genius, which thankfully got those claims brought down a notch when Jimmy is unable to find another team to give him seven draft picks as coach as the Dolphins, so he just stays in the real good coach category, but not at the level of Walsh and Shula. And a trade that irritates me becuase it helped the Braves win the 93 West over my beloved Giants, was the Padres give Fred McGriff to the Braces for three no name players, who do absolute nada for the Padres, and McGriff is able to help the Braves win the West, when at the time they were almost out of the race. Which goes to show that any team that have fire sales should be "set on fire" themselves. Oh Well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ripper 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Well they did give up Glenn Robinsons 20. points a game for Terrell Brandon, Shareff Abdur Rahims 20/10 and Theo Ratliffs league leading shot blocker for, in essense, Wesley Person and Bobby Sura. Goddamn they are incredibly bad negotiators. Maybe they want to rope-a-dope the NBA. They're trading talent for draft picks --- and THEY SUCK AT DRAFTING PEOPLE. Good lord, outside of Terry, have they drafted anybody good in the last 10 years? -=Mike Chris Crawford showed that he can actually play when he got to get on the court the second half of this year. i think he put up 21 a game. He is pretty good. Boris Diaw is a freak of nature to watch. the guy is 6'9" - 6'10" and his idol was Magic Johnson growing up(his ball handling and Passing shows it). he is a great defender, but the guy can't score to save his life. He works on his O in the offseason then he will be something to see. Deon Glover is a good 6th man. Outside of that...no...they haven't drafted anyone of anytype of real talent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ripper 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 I don't see any Bullets fans so I will take over for you guys. Chris Webber for MITCH FUCKING RICHMOND. Okay, I know the Webber thing wasn't working out...but you could've gotten more than MITCH end of his career at this point RICHMOND. Rasheed Wallace for Harvey Grant. ... Do I even need to say more on that one? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Styles 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 The Orioles notoriously worst trade was trading Curt Schilling, Steve Finley and Pete Harnisch for Glenn Davis in 91. Infamous. I think Davis got into a bar fight early in the season, broke his hand and never played again. Meanwhile those 3 young players became a decent pitcher, an all star and a Cy young award/Hall Of Fame candidate. As for the Wizards, where to begin? Trading Rip Hamilton for Jerry Stackhouse was pretty stupid in retrospect. Thanks MJ. Oh and there's Chris Webber for Mitch Richmond, and Ben Wallace for Ike Austin and we traded Rasheed Wallace for someone I don't care to remember. God what stupid management... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Styles 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 I don't see any Bullets fans so I will take over for you guys. Chris Webber for MITCH FUCKING RICHMOND. Okay, I know the Webber thing wasn't working out...but you could've gotten more than MITCH end of his career at this point RICHMOND. Rasheed Wallace for Harvey Grant. ... Do I even need to say more on that one? Wow, Ripper looks like we posted at the same time. Right, Harvey Grant now I remember, thanks for reminding me you son of a bitch! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nl5xsk1 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 I'm actually pretty lucky, the only two local teams that I really care about are the Bruins and Patriots, and neither have a really bad trade to reference. The Red Sox have a ton, but I'll let someone that cares about them complain about them. The only one that I can think of is the Bourque trade (Bourque and Andreychuk to Colorado for Ralston, Grenier, Pahlsson, and a pick.) But even that worked out for the B's, as Ralston still plays for them and we, as Bruins fans, got to watch Raymond skate with that chalice over his head. I'll give it more thought and see if I can think of any worth bitching about. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted May 13, 2004 The Sux fans aren't saying anything...heh Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Electrifyer 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 The Bulls trade with Elton Brand to the Clippers for there draft pick where they picked either Chandelor or Curry. Whoever it was that they got for that pick was no Elton Brand. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alfdogg 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 It was Chandler. Ripper, wasn't Garrity one of the guys involved in the Penny Hardaway deal? Also: Kobe for Vlade, anyone? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ripper 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 It was Chandler. Ripper, wasn't Garrity one of the guys involved in the Penny Hardaway deal? Also: Kobe for Vlade, anyone? I thought Penny deal was a straight up for Danny Manning...both were ridiculously over paid guys with bad knees at the time... It might have been. If it was in the penny deal then nevermind. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alfdogg 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 *goes and gets his OFFICIAL NBA REGISTER~ book* Penny Hardaway for Danny Manning, Pat Garrity, and two future first-round picks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest FrigidSoul Report post Posted May 13, 2004 The Warriors have a long history of bad trades but this was probably the worst of all back in 1980: Golden State trades C Robert Parish and No. 3 pick (Kevin McHale) to Boston for the Nos. 1 and 13 picks (Joe Barry Carroll and Rickey Brown) Forget worst in franchise history that was one of the worst trades is sports history. Actually I quite enjoyed that trade. Red Auerbach is a genius...too bad Ainge is in charge now Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bored 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 A's trading Mark McGwire for T.J. Mathews, Blake Stein, and Eric Ludwick might rank as one of the worst trades ever on paper. They weren't going to re-sign him since they were cutting payroll, he didn't want to stay with the franchise looking dead in the water in 1997, and they had Jason Giambi waiting in the wings. They had a deal with the Angels almost done where they would have picked up Jim Edmonds (along with a couple of nobodies) but the Disney people nixed the deal and the A's had to settle with the terrible Cardinals deal. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lightning Flik 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Traded to Los Angeles Kings by Edmonton Oilers with Mike Krushelnyski and Marty McSorley for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, Los Angeles Kings' 1st round choice in 1989 (later acquired by New Jersey, who selected Jason Miller), 1991 (Martin Rucinsky) and 1993 (Nick Stajduhar) Entry Drafts and cash, August 9, 1988 And hey. We actually had the guy that's helping the Flames get a playoff run (he'd be Martin Gelinas). Does anyone else remember anyone from that listing that did anything? Neither did I. The stupidest trade ever. Honestly, it made no sense at all. Or even more recently: 30-Jun-03: New York Rangers traded Brian Leetch to the Edmonton Oilers for Jussi Markkanen and a 4th round selection in 2004. 03-Mar-04: New York Rangers traded Petr Nedved and Jussi Markkanen to the Edmonton Oilers for Stephen Valiquette, Dwight Helminen and a 2nd round selection in 2004. Why did we trade away Jussi Markkanen, and then trade for him right back is what I'd like to know. Why trade him away if you still wanted the guy in the first place? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Mike Keane and Patrick Roy for Joceylin Thiabult, Andrei Kovalenco, and Martin Ruicinsky. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sfaJack 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Also: Kobe for Vlade, anyone? My memory's probably getting fuzzy on this, but wasn't Kobe crying like a little bitch because he wanted to be in LA and not Charlotte? I seem to remember him bascially holding the Hornets hostage on that one, but I might be confused on the whole thing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bored 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Actually you pretty much nailed it on the Kobe deal. He said before the draft he'd only play for the Knicks, Bulls, or Lakers (three bigges t.v. markets). Just another reason to hate the guy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MikeSC Report post Posted May 13, 2004 Hey, Rip, would it be quicker to name GOOD trades the Hawks have been a party to? Getting Mookie was great --- but I'm drawing blanks for the rest. Can't remember who was traded to get Rahim. -=Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mecha Mummy 0 Report post Posted May 13, 2004 The Sonics trading Scotty Pippen way back when, I think. I can't remember who it was for, though, so maybe I'm wrong. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
