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

The worst trade Portland ever made, by far, was getting rid of Moses Malone. It ranks right up there with passing on Jordan and Durant in the draft.

Getting Buck Williams and Maurice Lucas were probably the two best deals the Blazers ever did. Getting rid of Rasheed Wallace was the best addition by subtraction.

 

Best Trades:

LaMarcus Aldridge for Tyrus Thomas & Khryapa
fun fact: Chicago obtained the #2 pick they used on LaMarcus when traded Eddie Curry to New York. They also got from New York their 2007 1st, which they used on Joakim Noah!
LaMarcus is a two time All-Star. Thomas is ??.

Brandon Roy for Randy Foye
Foye is a journeyman. Roy turned around a franchise when it needed it.

Lucas for Petrie (who didn't play after that) and Steve Hawes. Lucas only played for 3 1/2 seasons, but got the championship, and brought back good value when he was traded for Calvin Natt, who was a good player for Portland. Then Natt was traded along with Cooper and Lever (a good point guard) and pick in that ridiculous Kiki Vandewhatsit trade.

Rasheed Wallace for Rod Strickland and Harvey Grant.
Grant was only an average player and we got rid of Rod and extracted big value right before his game declined. While Wallace's game improved and stayed strong as soon as he showed up in Portland.


For those mentioning Buck Williams as the best trade: he was a better player than Bowie, but he wasn't dramatically better. In addition, we sent NJ our 1st for 1989. That was a deep draft. We sent them #12, and they drafted Mookie Blaylock, who had a fine career. Still on the board at #12: Tim Hardaway, Shawn Kemp, and Vlade Divac. So, I think this was a good trade for the Blazers, but not all-time great. Buck didn't turn the franchise around like Brandon Roy. Nor did we fleece NJ.

 

The trade for Scottie Pippin was also pretty cool - lots of parts for a Top 50 player of all time, even if we was a little long in the tooth at the time.

 

Favorite: acquiring Buck Williams
Least favorite: trading Rider and Jimmy Jackson for Steve Smith

 

Foye is still in the league. How did Roy turn us around? A few first round exits? That's where we were with the Jail Blazers.

Buck Williams turned us around cuz he got us to the Finals a year after losing in the first round.

 

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.

 

My favorites: 1A Petrie and Hawes for Lucas (ABA draft) or 1B Bench for Pippen or 1C Tyrus Thomas (#4) and Khryapa for Aldridge

My least favorite: Moses Malone for '78 First Round Pick - there is not a worse trade in our history!!!! We knew he'd be really good.

 

Good point. Might be our best trade ever when all is said and done.

 

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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?

 

Needless to say, I disagree with your opinions.

Buck was a role player. One of the best role players in the league, but a freaking role player.

Who cares about Foye? Journeymen don't matter. By definition.

The Blazers were in disarray, and the team was ON THE BLOCK. Who knows what would have happened if it had been sold. If you don't think Roy led the turnaround of the team fortunes and future you must not have been in Portland during those years. You had to live to know the truth.

 

Yes!

I had that on my list, but inadvertantly left it out (Wallace, Wallace)

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

Well if we look at it that way; sounds like a great deal! Haha

 

Trading a 26 y/o Zach Randolph for cap space.

 

That was pretty bad for sure. We would have surely picked Durant if we kept Zach.