I think the best, or at least most impactful is pretty easy for me: runner-up in terms of impact is probably: it looks like the Nets did well because Mookie Blalock was a great defensive player (but they traded him 3 years later for Rumeal Robinson) ************************************************** worst: Portland just made it much much worse when looking at what they did with that 1978 first round pick: 3 Rick Robey 4 Micheal Ray Richardson 6 Larry Bird 9 Reggie Theus 15 Mike Mitchell YIKES!! Runner-up? The Jermaine O'Neal trade?
The best trade was Tom Owens to Indiana for 1984 first round pick. We just happened to pick wrong twice. Called tails and then picked Bowie over Jordan. Either of the other options and we would have had multiple titles Worst trade is Moses Malone to Buffalo for a first round pick in the 20s
Raymond Felton for Andre Miller or the Jermaine O'neil for Dale Davis.....take your pick....if Bowie hadn't hidden the truth about his knee that would have been a good trade...he was way better than Buck talent wise.....I liked Andre Miller so much and hated Raymond Felton so I'm going to go with that trade
I thought our best trade was the Pippen deal where we traded heaps of scrubs for an aging superstar. We still got some good years out of Pippen and he was a key part of our run to the Western Conference finals
I really liked Andre Miller. Never really understood the buzz about him until he was a Blazer and then I really appreciated his game and savvy style.
Worst trade was when we traded Sheed to the Hawks. We instantly became a lotto team for 5 straight years. Best trade was obviously trading Wallace.
I don't know about that. Portland wasn't going anywhere with an aging Andre Miller, while Felton gave us years of fat jokes
Some underappreciated very good to great trades; Getting LaMarcus Aldridge for Tyrus Thomas and Viktor Khryapa; while passing on Adam Morrison. Trading Sebastian Telfair for the #7 pick and the "Golden Ticket" (Raef LaFrentz) ---Trading the #7 pick (Randy Foye) for Roy Trading a future first for Bonzi Wells at #11 Trading a future first for Gary Trent at #11 (Sr; in 1995) Trading Jeff McGinnis for Darius Miles. (Miles played a half season in Cleveland with a rookie LeBron. It would've been great if Nash hadn't later overpaid both Ratliff and Miles with massive contracts.) JR Smith for James Robinson JR Smith and Jim Jackson for Steve Smith Dale Davis for Nick Van Excel (maybe not great but he was a bright spot in a horrific season)
You were told correctly. The Blazers had a solid young core at the end of the 84 season, with a 48-24 record and trending in the right direction with Sam Bowie coming back from injury. The Blazers gave up Fat Lever, Wayne Cooper, and Calvin Natt, plus two picks for Vandeweghe. Now to be fair, Vandeweghe was a borderline star with offensive skills aplenty. But the Blazers already had scoring with a young Clyde Drexler and veterans Jim Paxson and Mychal Thompson. What they gave up was toughness, an ability to bang inside, which was desperately needed against the Lakers, who were the top of the West heap in the 80s. Darnell Valentine was a decent PG to take over the reigns of Ramsay's offense, but Lever was head and shoulders better. The trade gutted a talented core that in a couple of years might have made some noise in the West, but they regressed the following two years to 42-40 and 40-42 seasons and saw Jack Ramsay fired. Now, could that have been because Dr. Jack's message was growing thin on a new generation of players? Quite possibly. Mike Schuler came in for the 86-87 season and won 49 and 53 games in his first two seasons, although that did not translate into playoff success, sadly a cultural staple for Blazer fans until the early 90s.
Petrovic to NJ for an old Walter Davis was a mistake by Petrie. Petro ended up being 3rd team all NBA just 2 years later. His unfortunate death that year minimized the mistake, or it would have been similar to the Jermaine trade.
I remember when Miles got like a 4 year $48 million dollar deal. How egregious! And you mean JR Rider not Smith
