Whats your favorite and least favorite Blazers trade of all time and why?

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mr.unclewiffy said:
I would say one of my favorite trades is turning out to be Gerald Wallace for the 6th pick in the 2012 draft.

My least favorite goes way back to Calvin Natt, Lafayette Lever and Wayne Cooper for Kiki Vandeweghe. I was a huge fan of Lever and Natt, and we basically gift wrapped Denver a Conference Championship winning team. Vandeweghe was a very good player, but The Blazers simply gave way too much up to obtain him.
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Yes!

I had that on my list, but inadvertantly left it out (Wallace, Wallace)
 
chris_in_pdx said:
This is the correct annswer

The Vandeweghe trade destroyed the nucleus of an up-and-coming Blazer squad that was gelling to compete with the Lakers for the West. Jim Paxson, Wayne Cooper, Kenny Carr, Calvin Natt (who was a complete BEAST), a healthy Mychal Thompson, a rookie Clyde Drexler, and the first pick in the draft, which became Sam Bowie. Maybe with Cooper still on the team, Bowie doesn't get pushed as hard as he does the first few years of his career and the injuries never happen. Maybe a high-value Paxson is traded for a quality legit point guard like Maurice Cheeks in his prime (Philly in decline probably makes that deal), and the Blazers seriously compete or even overtake the Lakers in the mid-late 80s.

Edit: best trade? Has to be Petrie for Lucas. This directly led to a Championship. How can you beat that?
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You forgot 23 year old Fat Lever was sent to Denver as well. He was a decent Point Guard who became a really good point guard for several seasons during his prime years (26 - 28)
 
Favorite: trading picks with Chicago and getting lma

Least fav: trading Chris Paul or deron Williams for Martel Webster
 
magnifier661 said:
Favorite: trading picks with Chicago and getting lma

Least fav: trading Chris Paul or deron Williams for Martel Webster
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Excellent choices. Although we also got the pick that netted us Jarret Jack. Which led to us getting Ike Diogu and Bayless. And we traded Webster for the rights to Babbitt.

So, uh, yeah. We could have had Chris Paul. We got Luke Babbitt. Hard to see how that could have come out shittier.
 
HCP said:
I'll back off. I haze ALL rookies though. Fez is just a prick.
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Someone superglued your ass to a car.

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Trading both Sheed and Zbo were monumental failures.
Trading "Crash" was pretty awesome - I would have been happy with a Trade Exception, but getting Lillard for that bum is quite amazing.
 
mook said:
Excellent choices. Although we also got the pick that netted us Jarret Jack. Which led to us getting Ike Diogu and Bayless. And we traded Webster for the rights to Babbitt.

So, uh, yeah. We could have had Chris Paul. We got Luke Babbitt. Hard to see how that could have come out shittier.
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But we traded Bayless for a pick, and we traded that pick in the package for Gerald Wallace, and we traded Wallace for the #6 pick that became Lillard.

So we passed on CP3 and Deron to get Lillard ;)
 
Draco said:
But we traded Bayless for a pick, and we traded that pick in the package for Gerald Wallace, and we traded Wallace for the #6 pick that became Lillard.

So we passed on CP3 and Deron to get Lillard ;)
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Well if we look at it that way; sounds like a great deal! Haha
 
Randolph trade was actually pretty logical.


Best - I'll go with Gerald Wallace for a lottery pick

Worst - Hard to pick one with Bob Whittsitt making so many terrible trades.

August 30, 2000: As part of a 3-team trade, the Portland Trail Blazers traded Brian Grant to the Miami Heat; the Portland Trail Blazers traded Gary Grant to the Cleveland Cavaliers; the Cleveland Cavaliers traded Shawn Kemp to the Portland Trail Blazers; and the Miami Heat traded Chris Gatling, Clarence Weatherspoon and a 2001 1st round draft pick (Brendan Haywood) to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

August 31, 2000: Traded Joe Kleine and Jermaine O'Neal to the Indiana Pacers for Dale Davis

What a way to dismantle a team....in ONE off-season.
 
Only one of you said Tyrus Thomas + Viktor crappa for LMA.

Weird.
 
HCP said:
Least Fav Petro huh? ^ I didn't really care either way because he wasn't getting ANY run here....... stuck behind Clyde/Porter/Ainge and we were 6-0 at the time when he threw this out.......
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Least fave, yep. I don't care about the circumstances. I was my least favorite as a fan. I just loved watching the guy play, and was more bummed about him being traded than any other player before or since. I don't get attached to players anymore though. Although I was a little bummed about Sheed being traded.

Fuck the Lakers!
 
The Pippen trade was easily my favorite. We gave them a bunch of hot garbage for a Hall of Famer that still had game left. I'm trying to remember the exact players we traded...Walt Williams, Kelvin Cato, Ed Gray, Tracy Murray?
 
MickZagger said:
The Pippen trade was easily my favorite. We gave them a bunch of hot garbage for a Hall of Famer that still had game left. I'm trying to remember the exact players we traded...Walt Williams, Kelvin Cato, Ed Gray, Tracy Murray?
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And a first rounder I believe
 
MickZagger said:
The Pippen trade was easily my favorite. We gave them a bunch of hot garbage for a Hall of Famer that still had game left. I'm trying to remember the exact players we traded...Walt Williams, Kelvin Cato, Ed Gray, Tracy Murray?
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I liked that one best. I think augmon might have been part of the deal too. The Steve Smith trade was pretty sweet too. As was the trade for Buck Williams. Maybe the trade of crash for what ended up being lillard will supplant them all. Worst trade was trading jermaine. At the time I didn't like it at all. I kind of liked kiki so I never got all bent out of shape about that move.
 
mr.unclewiffy said:
I would say one of my favorite trades is turning out to be Gerald Wallace for the 6th pick in the 2012 draft.

My least favorite goes way back to Calvin Natt, Lafayette Lever and Wayne Cooper for Kiki Vandeweghe. I was a huge fan of Lever and Natt, and we basically gift wrapped Denver a Conference Championship winning team. Vandeweghe was a very good player, but The Blazers simply gave way too much up to obtain him.
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I have to agree with both,Il oved tose guys and was never a Kiki fan.
 
Trading for Pippen was my favorite. Man that was awesome when he was a Blazer. I also liked getting Sheed (a bit before my time, but he was one of my favorites growing up), and Wallace for Lillard.
I liked the JJ and Rush for Bayless trade a lot at first but that one didn't turn out too well. Outlaw and Blake for Camby was pretty clutch at the time. Outlaw fell off a cliff right when we traded him. Camby was pulling down rebounds like nothing that season.
 
People are overstating the Briant Grant trade.

Firstly, he wanted a max deal. He wasn't worth a max deal, so the team traded him.

Secondly, he was never the same player. Pretty sure his contract was one of the worst in the NBA.

For me, best was probably the Sheed trade because Strickland was an asshole.

Worst was Miller for Felton, because we all knew it was a terrible trade while it was going down. At least at the time of the Jermaine deal many of us were happy with the trade.
 
Draco said:
But we traded Bayless for a pick, and we traded that pick in the package for Gerald Wallace, and we traded Wallace for the #6 pick that became Lillard.

So we passed on CP3 and Deron to get Lillard ;)
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Good point. Not as painful. But in hindsight, I'd still take Chris Paul. In like a fucking nanosecond.
 
Yeah, that RLEC for Vince and 2 firsts from NJ would've been nice. But then we wouldn't have had Andre Miller!!

But I thought this was "trades", not "shoulda-been trades". ;)
 
Brian Grant was ridden like a rented mule in Miami; they played him at center (at 6-9) in the grind it out post-up era of 2000-2004, doubled the minutes he was getting, and watched him slowly wear down to nothing. That was never his game. Was he worth a max deal? Maybe not, but everyone was getting their checks cut pretty handsomely by the Billionaire Owner back then, so I can see why Grant wanted a piece.

Not my favorite or least-favorite, but I don't think Brian Grant got lazy or anything after the trade. His best year from an efficiency standpoint was that first year with Miami, before injuries set in.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
Brian Grant was ridden like a rented mule in Miami; they played him at center (at 6-9) in the grind it out post-up era of 2000-2004, doubled the minutes he was getting, and watched him slowly wear down to nothing. That was never his game. Was he worth a max deal? Maybe not, but everyone was getting their checks cut pretty handsomely by the Billionaire Owner back then, so I can see why Grant wanted a piece.

Not my favorite or least-favorite, but I don't think Brian Grant got lazy or anything after the trade. His best year from an efficiency standpoint was that first year with Miami, before injuries set in.
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Not saying he was lazy, just that he never earned the deal.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Not saying he was lazy, just that he never earned the deal.
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That's Miami's fault for thinking Brian Grant could play center. He might have earned the deal as a PF. He was basically JJ with MVP-level defense (DRtg of 100 or less for five straight years).
 
For Scottie Pippen: Kelvin Cato, Stacy Augmon, Walt Williams, Ed Gray, Brian Shaw, Carlos Rogers. Then Portland got Augmon back.

Brian Shaw did bite us in the ass on a certain unmentionable day in Los Angeles.
 
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