When Was The Last "Significant" Trade The Blazers Have Made?

[crandc]

BNM, as always, voice of reason. Great analysis of late picks. And Portland has historically done well with late picks (Kersey, Duckworth, Clifford Robinson, Terry Porter).

 

[jlprk]

I like an activist GM who leads the pack of GMs in seeking trades. So I liked Bob Whitsitt, who tried very hard. Pritchard was afraid of experienced players. After all, the black radicals might smoke grass and yell at a coach when the coach is being stupid (like Miller did with McMillan). We can't have that here in the Northwest. But while many hate dissension, I love it. So I opposed blowing up the elite team we had with Sheed, Pippen, Sabonis, and so many other good players, a team the rest of the league was afraid of.

Well that's history. Now we have an unknown, Cho. I always give a new guy time, e.g. I'm not down on Babbitt as others are. I want to see Cho do something good by the midseason trade deadline. If he doesn't, I'll get down on him, mildly, for the rest of the season. His second chance will be the draft and his third, the summer. I think he'll be alright, but if by then he's the new Pritchard, then I'll be spouting off.

Let's go Cho. And I'd rather have Whitsitt over Pritchard any day.

 

[MARIS61]

And some even worse ones while he was still here:

Brian Grant for Shawn Kemp
Jermaine O'Neal for Dale Davis
Steve Smith for Derek Anderson
Clyde Drexler for Otis Thorpe

3 of those players tied his hands by very publicly demanding trades, and Smith for Anderson was not a bad deal. Just a couple of role players.