10 WORST Trades In NBA History
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It’s hard to be a general manager in the NBA. You’re relying on future projections and player development when you’re making critical decisions, and sometimes those projections don’t pan out favorably. Drafting and trading players often makes some GMs look incredibly smart, and others not so much. Here are ten of the worst, mind-boggling and lopsided trades in NBA history
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"The Bucks haven't reached the finals again to this day"
Kinda funny now that Giannis got them their 2nd championship.
They finally found a star that doesn't whine about "market size" and just puts his head down and works his butt off. Giannis is so refreshing in this era
@@RIPJimmyA7X for now...
@@RIPJimmyA7X I feel like you’re talking about Aaron Rodgers but I’m not sure.
@@christianramirez9303 oh yeah cause Aron Rodgers is in the nba 😂😂😂
@@siltero8429 No because he also plays in the same market and has complained about the market in recent notable accounts.
The Nets made one of the worst trades in NBA history and still rebuilt faster than the Knicks
lmao that's because current day Knicks suck
Yeah I think that was the point of his comment man lol
It wasn’t rly a rebuild, they like clippers just got lucky with signing
@@dudenotperfect9383 They made the playoffs last year and this year without KD and Kyrie I think that is what he was getting at
👍 yup
3 drafts in a row. Kevin durant. Russel westbrook. James harden. Incredible. And now OKC has none of them lmfao
They have like 20 first round picks in the next 3 years tho 👀 they'll do it again
@@brad7566 and they will fuck it up again 😂😂
Adam silver might have had to pull a David sturn
@@kelvscontent3986 Silver is too soft.
@@brad7566 They will fuck it up.
Why does everyone leave out the fact that Kobe refused to play in Charlotte? And that’s why they traded him
Lies he never said he wouldn’t play
@@kasemalin3293 kobe wanted to play for lakers, he had his agent working on making that trade.
it was the other way around
Jerry West wants him to play in Lakers too
Yeah it was already planned.
Who tf would pay Kendrick Perkins 32 million yo they shoulda cut from him and give to harden
Ikr man is away from his prime back in Celtics lmao
Ikr
So tru
Ikr
Because he was a starter and James Harden wasn’t
Okc is a drafting genius their three picks in a row were mvps
They can draft but they can't keep a winning team
OKC didn't draft Kevin Durant or Russell Westbrook. They didn't draft Serge Ibaka either. The 1st ever draft pick in their history was James Harden
How about Andre Drummond to the Cavs for a bag of chips this season 😂
50 000 Subscribers with just 2 videos I heard it was a party size bag of Doritos, honestly a fair trade
😂😂
Drose bout to leave 🤦🏾♂️
@@Harpmantheman lol
😂😂😂
Let's get something straight. The hornets traded the 13th pick for Divac. The Lakers told the hornets to draft Kobe.
Exactly. People are revising history here.
I think the kobe divac trade is not at all the worst draft. Just imagine if kobe llayer at charlotte he would not be like was in real life
@@louis-felixdesjardins8289 what are you taking an about? Of course he would’ve been as good in Charlotte. Maybe numbers might be different, but he’s still be the same player. And other players might’ve signed with Charlotte to play with Kobe
Uh no
That is always completely misrepresented. With Shaq incoming, and West coveting Kobe, he set about finding the highest pick he could get for Vlade Divac, who was a very good center in the NBA (and came back to haunt the Lakers as a huge part of that great Kings team). The best he could get was Charlotte, and it wasn't even a trade for the 13th pick yet. It was contingent entirely on Kobe being available to pick for the Lakers when it was their turn. If not, no trade, the Hornets use the pick for themselves. They were not highly interested in Kobe pre-draft, and would not have picked him if he was still around at 13, and Lakers hadn't come calling.
4:07 - the reason why Kobe got traded from Charlotte to the lakers was because he didn’t want to to play in Charlotte. Charlotte was a small town at the time Kobe was in the NBA Draft, so I wouldn’t consider that being a bad trade.
It was a bad trade for tje Hornets because they got just 2 years of Vlade Divac
@@RepublicofLogan better than no player they traded someone who wouldn’t play for them for a decent player doesn’t sound like a bad deal
@@RepublicofLogan instead of nothing they got something, that’s simple math if you ask me.
@@RepublicofLogan the point' is Kobe don't want to play in charlotte
@@RepublicofLogan Charlotte of yesterday wasn't like the Charlotte of today.. Not too many people wanted to play there like that.. But Today's Charlotte is different cause the city is bigger and have a lot going on now but back then it wasn't popping like that back then..
You forget when nets trade kyle korver for copy machine
lmao that was so disrespectful 😂
Yeah but Kyle prove them wrong Lmao
@@LowBudgetJustinY trading one of the greatest shooter for copy nachine is disrepecful
It was actually for cash and they used that cash to cover summer league costs and a copy machine
@@aroobism its thecnically what i say
This video is easy, just put all of knicks trades in to last 20 years 😂
Bruhhh lmaoooo
remember they trade porzingis for a bag of doritos?
@@vellstraus1555 and got julius randel marcuz morris who became quickley dsj who became d rose and cap space to sign nerlens noel elfrid payton alec burks reggie bullock and are now in the start in what is looking like its going to be a succesful rebulid
@@tomthibodeau992 i hope so yeah...feel bad for the knicks for the last 25 years
@@tomthibodeau992 doubt it. The management is a joke
Imagine the thunder keeping KD, Russ, and harden. Now that's a team!!!!
🧢🧢🧢
Too much money😬
And serge ibaka
No it’s not brown wade and bosh is a team
Westbrick
7:00
Ed at the time of the trade for Russell was a *6 TIME ALL STAR* and did end up in the Hall.
Not up to Bill, but a bit more than a "good player" - and he had told Red he WANTED to go to Atlanta prior to the trade, for family reasons.
7:30
Wilt never signed a 1 year NBA deal (he did sign one with the Globetrotters while he had to wait a year for NBA eligibility).
He DID force trades twice though.
@6:18 i'm from tha future and tha Bucks returned to tha NBA Finals after u made tha vid lol
however i'm a Lakers fan tho
Some of these aren’t bad trades at the time, it’s just unknowingly trading future Hall of Famers
Vince Carter to New Jersey for fucking Aaron and Eric Williams. That shit wasn't bad in HINDSIGHT, it was the worst trade in NBA history the second it happened. Fucking Rob Babcock.
So we ain’t gonna talk about Charles Barkley got drafted when he was 14, so Inspirational
@Yatish Patel 1776ers.
Why tf would he talking about unproven rumors, tales, and folklore??? Lmfao..tf outta here.
kid that cap he was 20
I legit had to google search it when he said that, lol
Finally
1:59
"I am immune to your Jedi mind tricks" - and I have to wonder if this ever worked on his old teammate Larry Bird....
Both did learn a lot from their time under Red though.
4:17
Jerry's run was impressive - but not the best ever.
5:38
Then schooled by Wilt, especially the 4'th quarter of Game 6, in the WCF the following year - but Wilt was getting old and running out of steam and getting disgruntled AGAIN....
8:45
Why is Larry Bird and LeBron James with a bulls jersey?
Me: Nba did it
That's Jordan and Pippen.
@@DavidRay39 the next
If Larry Bird Got Traded to the Bulls with a Jordan and a Pippen We would be talking about 10 championships instead of 6.. If LeBron James and Dwayne Wade play along side Derrick Rose multi championships would have happened..
Lets just appreciate what a good bideo this was (amazing photos and files...)
“The bucks haven’t reached the finals to this day”
Giannis: disrespectful!!
this video was from a year ago….
@@PhantomSailor513 I know
Lol the garnet pierce trade was hysterical 🤣
6:18 One year later, the Bucks just won the NBA championship. It's crazy how unpredictable the NBA can be at times
I was here before this channel blows up
Very good vid
During that time Kobe-Vlade trade was actually lopsided in favor of the Hornets since Kobe wasn’t exactly a sure thing coming out of high school. Truth to be told if he didn’t play for the Lakers no one knows how he would’ve turned out. Hindsight is 20/20 that’s why it’s easy to come up with something like this.
Imagine the duo of AI and Charles
Barkley
My personal worst trade is Bobby Jones for George McGinnis (Denver traded Jones to Philly for McGinnis). Denver traded away the best defensive player at the time to the team with the best offensive player (Dr. J) for a so-so forward in McGinnis (yeah, I know he was considered better but he didn't show it in Denver). I knew one of the owners of the Nuggets at that time, family friend, and told him they made a HUGE mistake in trading away Bobby Jones. The Nuggets the first year with McGinnis had a barely winning season, and Jones went on with the Sixers winning an NBA title with Dr. J & Moses Malone a couple of years later.
Kobe's Trade was the best in my opinion Kobe just helped the Lakers for so long.
It was bad for the Hornets
Dat could of ben the Hornets with champion chip mabey even with shaq never no
You should look from 2 perspectives. For us, Lakers, It was the best draft day trade. But for the Hornets, u know......
I understand, the Hornets lost their chance to get a All-Star Player on their team. So I can understand.
Don't forget kobe was onky a Rookie and new to the league it was shaqs Lakers (99 - 2000 MVP )for the first few Rings ....younger people forget that...and ill add 2000,2001 ,2002 Finals MVP ( thanks google)
Imagine paying 32 millions to Kendrick Perkins and losing James Harden
They not about to make that mistake again with all those draft picks.
James harden was just a bench player
@@thelendalrock8675 The bench player? He was the sixth man of the year, and a top 3 scorer on the team. And they still chose to pay 32 million to Kendrick Perkins, who was already old, and was always a role player, if not worse than that. No matter how much you look at it, just having to pay Perkins 32 million is absurd.
@@kurtdonaldcobain4870 I’m not saying it’s not
@@thelendalrock8675 that just won 6th man of the year. OKC management is complete garbage. James was asking for 4 millions more of what they offered him. They said no lol
“Milwaukee haven’t reached a final to this day” a year later and they’re champions
@3:47 it says Robert Traylor played for "Michigan State" while the video shows him playing for Michigan. It's still a good video, I gave it a like.
That line about never trading with Danny Ainge still rings true to this day... fleeced the hell of the Rudy Gobert trade with the Twolves lmaoo
Well either way the Hornets were going to lose Bryant anyway considering he absolutely hated to play in a small market like Charlotte
Yh u rather pick him and then get picks and players from la Lakers
Nets traded for Old Paul Pierce and KG giving up Picks who were eventually a Future All Star Jaylen Brown, a potential MVP winner Jayson Tatum and Stud PG Collin Sexton. Smh
and marcus smart
@@jonahjenkins22 he wasnt part of the trade
@@tomthibodeau992 Oops I meant James Young
A very good video.
About the final appearances you are wrong about a couple 😭💯
Pippen was so under appreciated
The Celtics trade when they sent away Kevin Garnet and Paul Pearce may be the best trade they’ve made in a while they picked up serious draft picks 2 of them Tatum and Brown both averaged 20+ points per game this season
Karter Pollari Brown did not average 20+
Would the Kevin McHale/ Robert "Chief" Parrish for Joe "Barely Cares" Carol count here????
"Hold my brick" - LeLakers Russell Westbrook
8:46 and 8:48 he showed Larry in a bulls jersey and lbj was in a bulls jersey
Tywill Yuk in history that never even happened. They never played there.
You don’t get the joke. Do you?
iiKiller206 fortnite kid
@@captnjack9827 I don't even play fortnite as much and theres nothing wrong with playing fortnite
@@captnjack9827 anime kid
The reactions fans had on these trades are probebly the worst ever
how you spelled probably "probebly"
Probebly
BRUH
PROBABLY no worse than your spelling.
@@yourdaddy6030 and why you look 60 lol
You left out a key point in the Kobe trade. He refused to play for the Hornets and forced their hand in trading him. Ive always wondered if West had a hand in that part too.
Aw yes Ainge you my friend is another reason why I'm a celtics fan and have been since I started watching basketball when I was 12 and learned and studied the game and celtics history cause I fell in love with the team cause your the smartest GM there is even though I hated to see KG and pierce leave but it worked out well for us
The Blazers didn't keep Moses because they had Bill Walton at the time, so it was understandable. The insane part was that the Braves didn't even hold on to Moses. After only 2 games with the team, he was shipped to the Rockets for a couple of first round picks. It was in Houston that his career really took off.
The Blazers admitted that they made the mistake of trading Moses instead of Walton. Even though they won in the short term with Walton, it ended up leading them to draft Bowie instead of MJ. If the Blazers had kept Moses Malone, they probably wouldn't have been pressured to draft Bowie later.
Portland was always bad with centers. #1 overall 2 yrs before Walton they took a center. Then after Walton sat out a year they took mychal thompson #1 overall. He was garbage then they lost the coin flip to draft Hakeem. Drafted Bowie. Then Steve Johnson. Then Duckworth. Drafted Greg Oden. Traded for Nurkic. Don't draft anymore centers. Out of all those centers Duckworth & his one handed jumper was the most consistent
The Braves tanked to get outta Buffalo. They had a bad lease. Their owner and the Celtics owner who swindled KFC from Col Sanders switched teams remember. Then he took them to San Diego and named them the Clippers
@@mongoslade277 Damn.....
Tractor Traylor didn’t play for Michigan State, he played for the University of Michigan.
6:44 Donald Sterling: "Now THAT'S my type of team!!"
6:20
Though they came within one game in 2001, losing the ECF in 7 games to the 76ers
Them: OKC never reached the final till then
Me: Bruh OKC fought Rockets in the PLAYOFFS
huh?
I’m appalled by how immensely stupid you are
Your high
This video is easy, just put all of knicks trades in to last 20 years 😂
@@romankoal8677 this video is easy just put kg and pp trade and you got the video
It's weird watching this video after the bucks are one win away from the championship
There are honestly a LOT worse trades in NBA history than the Kareem trade. Short of trading him for ANOTHER Kareem, "experts" were going to call this a one-sided trade. This trade was actually a pretty good one for the Bucks. Bridgeman became one of the best 6th Man in the league, and Winters averaged 19 per game his first 4 years with the Bucks and was a 2x All-Star. They kept the team afloat through the lean years of the late 70s until the Bucks drafted Sidney Moncrief and Marques Johnson and began the "Nelly Ball" era of the 80s.
Nets: Paul pierce and KG-D’angelo Russel-KD and Kyrie
Knicks:Carmelo-Mitchell Robinson- JuLiuS rAnDLe
The year after this video buck won the finals
When a player demands a trade it kind of ruins the fact of how bad a trade it was. It's kind of expected at that point.
Players demanding trades usually means the team can't get fair value for that player.
9:30
Barkley was IMO the second-best PF in the league - behind Kevin McHale - but the point COULD be argued as Kevin was starting to slow down a bit.
What can't be argued was that he was the best player the 76ers had left at that point - and it wasn't even close.
6:38
Red engineered the trade for the draft rights to Russell before the draft, there was NO "Russell wasn't intended to play with the Celtics".
However, it did COST - Red traded away a multi-time established All Star (Ed Macauley) and 2 future Hall of Fame members (Ed and Cliff Hagan) AND some off-court stuff to get Russell, and was very happy with the results.
It wasn't a total loss for the Hawks though - they DID beat the Russell-led Celtics behind Bob Pettit, Macauley, and Hagan in the 1958 Finals - the ONLY time that Russell lost a championship series (and Alex Hannum as coach was also the only man to ever defeat the Russell-era Celtics TWICE in the playoffs, once with Atlanta and once with the WIlt-led 76ers).
WOW did you miss one. In a pre-draft trade on June 9th, 1980, the Boston Celtics traded the draft rights to the 1st pick (Joe Barry Carroll) and the 13th pick (Rickey Brown) in the 1980 NBA Draft for center Robert Parish and the rights to the 3rd pick in the NBA draft (Kevin McHale).
You don't count draft day trades. That's just silly. They aren't star players yet, they're magic beans.
Who else is watching this and the bucks are in the finals
8:46 Larry Bird in a Bulls jersey 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some of these pictures are synched up weird. You've got Barkley being drafted with the year 1976 in the background and then you go on to talk about the Sixers missing the playoffs in 1991-1992 and there's a photo of Barkley with Dr. J and Mo Cheeks. Very odd.
Shaq and Kobe aren't the best duo in NBA history. I'd still put Magic and Kareem and definitely Michael and Scottie over them.
freespeechisdead isdead even tho they are boring to watch Duncan & Parker
@@kingsleyjackson8287 great duo
Agreed. "Best duo in history" followed immediately by showing Kareem (whom duoed with Magic). Ummm... no.
@@kingsleyjackson8287 Parker was never a top 25 player in the league let alone top 10. Those other duos were arguably 2 top 5 players in the league.
of course wilt wanted to go to la for the women 😂 7:44
Thats why he is wilt the stilt
He said he slept with 20,000
@@jonahjenkins22 he slept with over 20,000
@ Nonstop Sports, at 9:17 Barkley started his career in 1986 not 1976!
6:19 Giannis - Fine I will do it myself
7:09 what? I think you missed something there.
Jerry West and Danny Ainge great two of the best GMS in all of sports!!!
If I was another team I would avoid working with the Celtics at this point. It seems like no matter how good a deal you get you always come out on the wrong side with Danny.
6:28 & the same night Red traded for Bill Russell...they got Tommy Heinsohn as a territorial pick.
a pretty good night!
Should’ve been a top 20 list, because there are several trades that could’ve been mentioned here, such as:
• Indiana trading Alex English to Denver for George McGinnis
• Dallas trading Dale Ellis to Seattle for Al Woods
• Atlanta trading Dominique Wilkins to the LA Clippers for Danny Manning
• Golden State trading Mitch Richmond to Sacramento for Billy Owens
Vince Carter to New Jersey was worse than all those. And also all the ones you just said we're worse than nearly this entire video.
@@Mastaace 😂😂😂😂👍🏾
What a great pull on Richmond for Owens. Sac even got more pieces for Owens. I remember it being a talent for talent trade. It also broke-up Run TMC with idea that Owens length and defense would help Golden State more. Owens never turned into much and Richmond is a Hall of Famer.
Kawhi for DeRozan is definitely an honorable mention, Toronto got a ring and San Antonio is having their worst stretch since the 90’s
Kawhi wanted out sucks there wasn’t much the Spurs could do
Spurs didn’t have a choice cuz Kawhi wanted out and despite the Spurs failure recently Demar has been crazy and is the most underrated player in the league.
Is everyone gunna ignore the fact that Wilt said he wanted to go to LA for the woman?😂
Lmaooo
Wilt the stilt
WOMEN
"And Milwaukee hasn't made the finals to this day" made me had to check the date om the vid
You should do too 10 draft mistakes. Especially with the Curry and Klay drafts that if gone how supposed to things would be very very different today
Kobe demanded a train so u can’t say it was Charlotte hornets fault
The Kobe Bryant trade was actually a great trade, Charlotte drafted him knowing that he would never play for them but that they could get a good player for him, he alluded to the fact that he only wanted to play for the Lakers maybe the Sixers, but Charlotte was gutsy enough to hold Bryant's rights hostage to make sure the Lakers didn't just get a free pass to Kobe, of course Kobe was way better than Vlade Divac. Also technically you can't consider Kobe Bryant a lifelong Laker if he was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets.
9:44 Andrew Lang was so unknown, that this dude thinks his name was Andrew "Kang"
5:29 Kareem looks like a fish character from Spongebob
Also, as a Knicks fan I remember this one. A god awful Knicks team that needed their picks trades for Eddy Curry. Those picks became LaMarcus Aldridge and Joakim Noah.
That trade is worse than 80% of this list at least. A dude I knew from High School once wrote an article for RealGM trying to build and even worse team with the amount of money Isiah Thomas wasted back then.
Even if the Knicks had drafted them, they just would have wasted them anyways.
You forgot to mention the trade of Drummond on the cavs
Drummond basically got traded for a half empty bag of chips
@@jellyboi2565 less than this
To be fair, the Thunder easily should’ve taken over the conference without Harden. Besides choking in 2016, there was a significant injury every season after 2012.
Young Durant, Westbrook, and Harden OKC was my favorite team as a child. Keeping harden is a massive what if story for me as a thunder fan, knowing they'll get Ibaka and Adams on the way for their defense. Sucks that the management is too cheap
This is unfair for Divac.. At that time Kobe didnt want to play in Charlotte and he is still a rookie so a trade for then established Vlade is fair.. 🤔😁
That's because this list is dog shit.
Me watching this in 2021 when the bucks are in the finals be like
0_0
that dirk trade for Tractor Donut Traylor as a bucks fan still hurts
Pessimistic person: worst trades in the nba history. Optimistic person: best trades In the nba history.
Lakers snagging these hall of famers
ROBERT TRAYLOR PLAYED FOR u of m the university of Michigan not Michigan state!! smh
Lmao even showed his pic in maize and blue Jersey 😂😂
he also dead
Who t f cares ?
@@TheTuRoK33 I do which is why I said it
The way he says ‘Nowitzki’ looool. Put some respect on it
That OKC team was so good...but that org just don't want to win a title lol.
8:45 wtf are those pictures in a bulls outfit? :D
who’s here after harden got traded to the nets
and now they got kyrie, kd and harden
Add the britney griner trade
top 1 for sure.
Always have to wonder what could have been in OKC if they hadn't traded Harden.
4:12 yes, Jerry West had made the BEST decision for the franchise, also made the Lakers the most iconic franchise
True, but the players mostly came because "location, location, location." They move to LA because of Hollywood, the weather, the glitz and glamour, and win a couple titles for the franchise in exchange. Jerry West couldn't do much as GM of the Memphis Grizzlies, yet the Clippers get all kinds of talent fall in their lap with a worse GM.
Your video could not be more wrong! Kobe was never going to play for Charlotte. He said don’t draft me and wouldn’t come to Charlotte for a work-out. They made the best out of the situation.
Kobe was a prick and a rapist
Yeah no the OKC was Harden being selfish
Harden wasn’t being selfish. He considered himself worthy of a max contract as other superstars on the team, which he was. Harden was still deciding if he was willing to settle for less and then the Thunder traded him away.
Drew Gordon hardens a bum lol
The biggest mistake made by any NBA team was in 1984 draft when the Portland trailblazers had the 2nd pick to get Michael Jordan, but they passed him to pick center Sam Bowie instead which later turned to be a bust.
The Chicago Bulls picked M. Jordan after Portland showed no interest in him
The first draft that year went to Houston Rockets who picked Hakeem Olajuwon..
6:18 Milwaukee hasn’t reach the finals ever since
Me: is that so
I wouldn't call the Vlade/Kobe trade one of the worst ever. Obviously Kobe became an all-time great, but Vlade was still a decent to good center. Those Charlotte teams he was on from 96-98 won 54 and 51 games.
Barkley wasn’t drafted in 1976...
Ikr...
Yo big shout out to the bucks lmao first championship since Kareem
On Kareem, the bucks from 79 to 89 were like the 4th best team in the nba behind Boston, Philly and the Lakers. So many good bucks during that time