What trade got you the most excited...

[BlazerBenner]

1. The claiming of Maurice Lucas from the ABA.

2. The trade for Buck Williams.

3. The trade of draft picks that netted us Brandon Roy.

4. The trade of Jarrett Jack for Jarryd Bayless.

 

[oldmangrouch]

I'd say that THIS trade was one of Portland's best:


August 1, 1990: Traded by the Sacramento Kings to the Portland Trail Blazers for Byron Irvin, a 1991 1st round draft pick (Pete Chilcutt) and a 1992 2nd round draft pick (Brett Roberts).


Any guesses?


Played with Portland in the 1992 NBA Championship Series versus the Bulls.

Scored 9 points in an NBA Finals "overtime period" versus the Bulls!

Born: Eugene, OR

It was a good trade, in the sense that we got a decent player for almost nothing. Sadly, what we didn't get was the Ainge who had played in Boston.

By the time he reached Portland, he was just a merc playing for a check. The pride, fire, and loyalty of his Celtic days just wasn't there anymore. Heck, instead of being happy to come "home", he couldn't wait to leave again as a free agent.

 

[BlazerBenner]

Worse move ever:

The release/trade of Moses Malone after he had 20 rebounds (in almost just the first half) in a pre-season game in 1976. I listened to that game on the radio and couldn't believe what I was hearing. We'd never had a player like that before and we just let him go for nothing. We already had Walton and Lucas, so the Blazers said they didn't have anywhere to play him.

 

[Minstrel]

Since the new era, I would think when Sheed got traded for Abdur Rahim. We were all waiting on pins and needles for Sheed to get traded. We all thought SAR was a great trade.

We didn't all think so. Quite a few of us thought the Blazers sold low on Sheed.

The Pippen trade was when I became a Portland fan, as I was more of a general NBA fan before that who's favourite player was Pippen. So that probably doesn't count, as I wasn't excited as a Portland fan when the trade happened.

As a Portland fan, I'm sad to say I was probably most excited by the Shawn Kemp trade. I didn't think he was anything like the Seattle version, but he had just come off a few seasons with Cleveland where he scored between 17-20 PPG and got 8-9 RPG. I thought he'd be an amazing player to bring off the bench. I still think it was hard to see his total collapse coming. His play in Cleveland was uninspired but still very productive.

 

[OddEnormous]

Hey Minstrel where are you from?

 

[alex42083]

Yep, the Damon trade was awesome at the time. He was recently coming off his ROY campaign, and it was pretty exciting to see the hometown boy back.

And yep, Pippen had to be next. I still can't believe Scottie Pippen was a Trail Blazer to this day. Loved Pip.

 

[Minstrel]

Hey (everyone else may already know the answer) where are you from?

The Bay Area in California.

I actually started out as a Lakers fan because my dad was and I started watching basketball, as a kid, with him. He was a Lakers fan and basketball fan entirely due to Magic Johnson and when Johnson retired, he lost interest in basketball itself. After I was no longer watching with him (I was 13 when Magic retired the first time), I really didn't have a team, so I just watched basketball without much rooting interest...I just had players I liked, especially Pippen. I never really caught on as a Bulls fan or Rockets fan, but for some reason did as a Blazers fan which has clearly lasted beyond Pippen's career in Portland.

 

[BoomChakaLaka]

We didn't all think so. Quite a few of us thought the Blazers sold low on Sheed.

The Pippen trade was when I became a Portland fan, as I was more of a general NBA fan before that who's favourite player was Pippen. So that probably doesn't count, as I wasn't excited as a Portland fan when the trade happened.

As a Portland fan, I'm sad to say I was probably most excited by the Shawn Kemp trade. I didn't think he was anything like the Seattle version, but he had just come off a few seasons with Cleveland where he scored between 17-20 PPG and got 8-9 RPG. I thought he'd be an amazing player to bring off the bench. I still think it was hard to see his total collapse coming. His play in Cleveland was uninspired but still very productive.

+1 I was quite excited by this trade......but an overweight, washed up Kemp is all we got! Too bad.

........and giving up on Moses Malone may truly be THE worst move made by the Blazers. Simply was never assessed as we won a Championship that very year....but we all know how Moses Malone turned out!

 

[OddEnormous]

The Bay Area in California.

I actually started out as a Lakers fan because my dad was and I started watching basketball, as a kid, with him. He was a Lakers fan and basketball fan entirely due to Magic Johnson and when Johnson retired, he lost interest in basketball itself. After I was no longer watching with him (I was 13 when Magic retired the first time), I really didn't have a team, so I just watched basketball without much rooting interest...I just had players I liked, especially Pippen. I never really caught on as a Bulls fan or Rockets fan, but for some reason did as a Blazers fan which has clearly lasted beyond Pippen's career in Portland.

Werd.

About 3 times in my life, my friends, brother and I have asked the drunken long night shit shooting question:

"How many people in the world do you think there are that are Blazer fans, who have no logical connection to the area, city or state?"


And then we all guess a number between 1000 and 1200

So far you and Mixum are the only 2 I've come across.


Secondly, why do you spell favorite.... "favourite?" That was the other reason I asked where you were from. Are you just super continental?

 

[BengalDuck]

I'll never forget the trade for 'sheed... the bullets had, at the time, i believe Wallace, Webber, and either Juwan Howard or Calbert Cheaney (or both?)... the teaser on the radio was "Blazers trade for Bullets' PF" and my older brother and I were all thinking we had just gotten Chris Webber.

 

[KingSpeed]

Sending Clyde Drexler to the Rockets for Otis Thorpe. At the time, I really thought Otis would put us over the top.

 

[KingSpeed]

Since the new era, I would think when Sheed got traded for Abdur Rahim. We were all waiting on pins and needles for Sheed to get traded. We all thought SAR was a great trade.

I didn't. I thought it would send us to 10 straight years of no playoffs. Thankfully, it turned out to only be 5.

 

[MickZagger]

Sending Clyde Drexler to the Rockets for Otis Thorpe. At the time, I really thought Otis would put us over the top.

You really thought Otis Thorpe would put us over the top?

 

[Kaydow]

Easily Pippen and Smith. Bringing in a guy who was on Dream Team I & II (Pip) and another guy who was on Dream Team II (Smith) made us heavy favorites to win a title. It's funny, I remember nobody was even worried about the Lakers before that season. Before PJ, they could never break through - perennial "also rans". The Blazers finished 4 games ahead of the Lakers the year before and went to the conference semi's WITHOUT Pippen and Smith! No way were the Lakers going to be better than us. The teams we compared ourselves to going into the season were San Antonio & Utah.

That was the most excited I've ever been about our team.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Nothing comes close to landing the #1 pick. Nothing.

 

[WillG]

Sheed & Pippen were massive.

Personally, I was really excited when we landed Rod Strickland and also when we got Stacey Augmon.

 

[Minstrel]

Secondly, why do you spell favorite.... "favourite?" That was the other reason I asked where you were from. Are you just super continental?

My parents came to the US from India. As a kid, I grew up reading the children's books that they had loved as kids and thus introduced me to, by a British author named Enid Blyton. So from the time I started reading, til at least 10, I was reading British spellings. Even though all my schooling has been American, that still affects my writing.

 

[OddEnormous]

My parents came to the US from India. As a kid, I grew up reading the children's books that they had loved as kids and thus introduced me to, by a British author named Enid Blyton. So from the time I started reading, til at least 10, I was reading British spellings. Even though all my schooling has been American, that still affects my writing.

Super-Continental it is.

 

[BrianFromWA]

Is Great Britain considered part of "the Continent?"

 

[OddEnormous]

Is Great Britain considered part of "the Continent?"

Yes

 

[Draco]

PIPPEN!

That was my favorite trade at the time and still is. I remember hearing some casual fans bitching about it, I couldn't believe it. That was a slam dunk.

I do really like this Camby trade though!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

SHEED. Was so pumped to see a great, explosive young player!

 

[Minstrel]

SHEED. Was so pumped to see a great, explosive young player!

You seemed the most excited you've ever been in your life by the Randolph trade.

Not happy-excited...but pretty excited...!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

You seemed the most excited you've ever been in your life by the Randolph trade.

Not happy-excited...but pretty excited...!

 

[Wizard Mentor]

For fun, I'll play the opposite game - which trade/transaction got me least excited.

The Harvey Grant transaction. When a guy starts talking about Championships during
his press conference ("like his brother") when he'd never gotten out of the 1st round,
I knew trouble was coming - and it did.

 

[HailBlazers]

B-ROY