Worst trade in American professional sports history?

[KeepOnRollin]

stauskas is actually the same age as hield, and having a similar season.

A similar bad season you mean. Thing is one has been in league 2.5 years and one .5 years so there may (keyword may) be hope for the latter.

 

[PDXFonz]

I think that CBA rule wasn't in place for LA so he wasn't walking away from a huge amount of cash. If you look at the Cousins quotes from this season, there is no doubt he wanted that coin.

I have a feeling Neil is one of the GMs that was saying DMCs attitude was toxic.

I would absolutely agree.

 

[stampedehero]

Just be happy he's not going to the Warriors or something. And it'll be funny when he's being paid $30M and Nurkic kicks his ass.

Nurkic can give him the axe.

 

[stampedehero]

Trading Joe Montana to the KC Chiefs........... then doing the same to Marcus Allen. Also Al traded Phil Villapiano to the Buffalo Bills when Phil suggested Al should acquire TE Chandler from the Bills. Al Davis was a self centered ass who looked like a LA hairdresser.

 

[BlazerWookee]

I agree. New Orleans got jobbed. They're stuck with a guy who will give them short term success, but will be an albatross around their necks for years to come.

 

[Reep]

Reminds me so much of this trade:

You may have actually hit on something here. The Pau/Kwame trade looked like one of the worst trades of all time to me when it went down--obviously it did to a lot of other people too. But, now it doesn't look so bad, right? The unheralded piece of that trade that nobody talked about at the time was Marc Gasol.

Maybe (maybe) Hield is the Marc Gasol of this trade. Maybe Boogie ends up choking the pelicans. Who knows.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Why don't people get that no one wanted Boogie

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Why don't people get that no one wanted Boogie

I wanted him.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

The NFL may have generated a new contender for this title:



The fact that anyone would take that albatross contract off the Texans' hands gives me renewed hope for Olshey's ability to potentially move Crabbe this summer.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

The NFL may have generated a new contender for this title:



The fact that anyone would take that albatross contract off the Texans' hands gives me renewed hope for Olshey's ability to potentially move Crabbe this summer.

I believe the signing bonus money is dead money on the Texans cap still? The browns could cut him and. It eat too much?

NFL salary cap is frigging confusing

 

[KeepOnRollin]

The NFL may have generated a new contender for this title:



The fact that anyone would take that albatross contract off the Texans' hands gives me renewed hope for Olshey's ability to potentially move Crabbe this summer.

I don't think that there is any doubt Crabbe could be moved. But a 2nd round pick is high in the NFL. That is like sending at least MEM's pick (if not our own) to get rid of Crabbe. I not even sure POR wants to move Crabbe and probably certainly not if it takes a pick just to have him leave. Realistically they have to (or Leonard) financially though

 

[KeepOnRollin]

I believe the signing bonus money is dead money on the Texans cap still? The browns could cut him and. It eat too much?

NFL salary cap is frigging confusing

CLE is on the hook for his 16 MIL number this season (even if they release him) but that is it. Next year's salary was un-guaranteed.

 

[BlazerWookee]

I wanted him.

Why don't people get that no bipeds wanted Boogie

 

[3RA1N1AC]

so...the browns are paying 16MM to trade a 4th for a 2nd and a 6th?

weird

 

[Mediocre Man]

so...the browns are paying 16MM to trade a 4th for a 2nd and a 6th?

weird

They also get a QB better than anyone on their current roster.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

They also get a QB better than anyone on their current roster.

If that's all they wanted, we should trade them Pat Connaughton.

Get on it, Neil!!

 

[Troy.Ave]

The NFL may have generated a new contender for this title:



The fact that anyone would take that albatross contract off the Texans' hands gives me renewed hope for Olshey's ability to potentially move Crabbe this summer.

Crabbe is damn good. Do you see his percentages ? He's like top 5 in 3 point shooting. I think Crabbe is underrated

 

[Mediocre Man]

Crabbe is damn good. Do you see his percentages ? He's like top 5 in 3 point shooting. I think Crabbe is underrated

Yep.

 

[riverman]

Andre Miller for Raymond Felton......my own worst trade ever.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

First, I don't like this sort of thing because most people are way too results oriented. Regardless, I throw a few things out there:

McHale/Parrish trade

The biggest news of the season came a full four months before the season started. On June 9, 1980, Red Auerbach pulled off the type of trade that had earned him a reputation for thievery in his more than three decades in the league. Auerbach dealt the first and 13th picks in the 1980 NBA Draft to Golden State for the third pick in the 1980 Draft and four-year veteran center Robert Parish. The Warriors selected Purdue center Joe Barry Carroll with the first pick and tabbed Mississippi forward Rickey Brown 13th. The Celtics took forward Kevin McHale of Minnesota, and thus added Parish and McHale to a frontcourt that already featured Larry Bird and Cedric Maxwell. In one trade, Auerbach had acquired a frontcourt for the next decade.

Seattle Supersonics trade Scottie Pippen to Bulls for Olden Polynice in 1987

Damn, both of my worst trades is in a bleacherreport article, how embarrassing:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/63754-top-five-worst-nba-trades-of-all-time

 

[riverman]

Bulls trade Lamarcus Aldridge to Portland for Tyrus Thomas after the draft

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Bulls trade Lamarcus Aldridge to Portland for Tyrus Thomas after the draft

As far as worst Blazers trade, I believe we traded a then-future HOFer for cash in the very early days of the franchise.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Andre Miller for Raymond Felton......my own worst trade ever.

Again, great trade if Roy's knees were worth a fuck. If he retires at season's end we don't make that trade and LaMarcus takes over the team with an extremely complementary point guard instead of a fat sandbagger.

 

[Strenuus]

Bulls trade Lamarcus Aldridge to Portland for Tyrus Thomas after the draft

That was a horrible trade.










































For us.

 

[ripcityboy]

This is an easy one for me. How about a curse that helped sink a franchise and end a curse? In 1997, the small market Montreal Expos traded away Pedro Martinez for Carl Pavano & Tony Armas Jr. The Expos were being forced to trade away their top talent over a series of years. Pedro was the best pitcher they had. He would go on to to have the most dominant seven year pitching stretch in the history of the game. Boston won the World Series in his last contract year. The Expos eventually moved to Washington a flaming wreckage of a franchise. If Moneyball had existed back then and their owner been more like Paul Allen, maybe things would have been different.

 

[jlprk]

The worst trade I remember is the Rams for the Colts. Los Angeles is a much bigger market than Baltimore.

http://iqfb.com/league-facts/colts-and-rams-biggest-trade-in-nfl-history/