Most Lopsided Trades in NBA History?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CB4AllStar @ Jul 2 2006, 06:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think Vince Carter for Eric Williams, Aaron Williams and a 1st. Both are gone now and didn't contribute at all to the team. Vince Carter is a freaking all star. You gotta heckle them for SOMETHING in return. Even a role player. Somebody.btw I dont count Alonzo Mourning in the trade because he never played a game for us...yeah, that brings me to another bonehead mistake by Raptors management. Why not trade him, or suspend him without pay until he reported instead of doing the wim*y move of buying out the contract. One of the bad things about Babcock was that the man had no balls at all.</div>ya that gets my vote, VC for below par players, and a draft pick... but they got rid of Aaron and Eric rarely did anything productive, i cant believe Babcock didnt try out his options, instead of just taking on the first offer that came :thumbdn1: I personally think he was one of the worst GMs in the NBA... Almost every year he got us some crap player in the draft.. i dont remember if he drafted VC or Tmac but i know he got us Chris Jefferies(No Name) he also aquired great people like Yogi Stewert and Michael Bradly dont forget me Matt Bonner... Great job picking Bosh, you picked a winner but we had like the fourth pick... thats how i feel about being a Raptor fan under an idiot GM... so when Vince left i felt part of me should aswell

 

The first trade isn't lopsided at all considering Hill was in the prime of his career

 

SOON TO BE: Rudy Gay and Stromile Swift for Shane Battier.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Spree @ Jul 7 2006, 06:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The first trade isn't lopsided at all considering Hill was in the prime of his career</div>Well, at the time that looked like a great deal for Orlando, but almost all of these deals looked good at first for the teams that got ripped off in the end. Charlotte was getting their starting Center for some skinny 17 year old. Milwakee was getting a man in the middle for a softy from Europe.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pistonfan11 @ Jun 18 2006, 03:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>^ No I think we traded him and Mikki Moore to the Clippers? Maybe I am wrong.</div>You are indeed wrong. He went to Hawks with Sura. He was an expiring contract. He signed as a FA with the Clippers in the offseason.

 

Grant Hill to Orlando for Chucky Atkins and Ben Wallace :brickwall:

 

That was like the first trade mentioned in the entire thread.

 

caron averaged almost 18 points and 6 boards and kwame averaged 7 and 6 boards washington won that amare post isnt like amare he cant even hold on to the ball but he has good potential and caron is going to be the next paul peirce type player that he was suppost to be coming out of uconn

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (theaftermath770 @ Jul 18 2006, 12:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>caron averaged almost 18 points and 6 boards and kwame averaged 7 and 6 boards washington won that amare post isnt like amare he cant even hold on to the ball but he has good potential and caron is going to be the next paul peirce type player that he was suppost to be coming out of uconn</div>No, both teams won that trade. If they hadn't made that trade, then Lamar would still have to play Power Forward, and as versitale a player as he is, he was getting MURDERED on defense in 04/05 playing in the post. Kwame provided that big man they needed, and Lamar definitely filled in at Small Forward for Caron.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CB4AllStar @ Jul 8 2006, 10:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Grant Hill to Orlando for Chucky Atkins and Ben Wallace :brickwall:</div>I can't agree more. Ben Wallace went on to become a star while Grant Hill became old.

 

How about the Denver trade for MeloI forgot who got traded in the trade for Denver and Memphis trade that would send??(thats how lopsided it was)forMemphis 1st.Round pick(Melo)

 

^actually I think we traded with Detroit for the number two pick, which we would of picked Darko because we badly needed a center. So I don't think it was lopsided. Detroit receives Memphis' first-round pick in 2003 (top 1 protected), or 2004 (no protection). (Thorpe trade 080797)I am actually happy we did that trade for whatever the hell we got, I wouldn't want Darko, and that would of been our ball in there, so Cleveland would of gotten Lebron either way. But if we could of gotten Lebron, I blame Vancouver for their horrible, stupid, retarted, crappy, I have 100 more insults to them management :boxin:

 

Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, Brian Grant, 1st Round pick for Shaq. To this day they ended up with Odom, Farmar, and Kwame from the results of that trade.Thanks again for the title LA.

 

Not ONE person mentioned the Celtics trading Chauncey Billups for Kenny Anderson.

 

kenny anderson was a great defender when he was young and chauncey wasnt to great till he got to detroit

 

Yeah, but it doesnt matter. We arent talking about what the trade looked like when it happened, we're talking about the trades that we look back on now and know that turned out to be lob-sided.I think the Grant Hill for Ben Wallace and Chucky Atkins one is interesting, because when it first happened Ben Wallace was basically a nobody and Grant Hill was one of the best stars in the League, so it looked to be favouring Orlando by a ton when the deal was dealt, but then Grant never was healthy again, and Ben Wallace went on to win 4 straight DPOY awards, anchor the Pistons defense, become famous, and win the Pistons a title and lead them on the defensive end to 3 straight awesome years. And Grant Hill is now costing Orlando money even though he is injured most of the time. So when we look back on it, it is actually favouring the other side, when people thought it was a landslide for Orlando. I think that is sort of funny.

 

if grant wasnt hurt the magic would of won a championship ppl forget he was a 25 8 and 5 guy

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC @ Jul 21 2006, 09:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Not ONE person mentioned the Celtics trading Chauncey Billups for Kenny Anderson.</div>Chauncey didn't help the Raptors at all though, and Kenny Anderson played better for Boston than Chauncey did for them.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (theaftermath770 @ Jul 21 2006, 03:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>if grant wasnt hurt the magic would of won a championship ppl forget he was a 25 8 and 5 guy</div>There's no way that Magic team was going to beat the Lakers at that point (2001). They had no inside presence whatsoever and if Hill had been healthy McGrady might not have played as well as he did.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Chauncey didn't help the Raptors at all though, and Kenny Anderson played better for Boston than Chauncey did for them.</div>It was the Celtics and it was in his rookie season. They didn't even give him a chance.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC @ Jul 21 2006, 11:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It was the Celtics and it was in his rookie season. They didn't even give him a chance.</div>That didnt make much sense at all. You would think that if you draft a player at #3 overall in a pretty good draft, that you would give him a shot. Bostons fault