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

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.

 

I don't really count that as a trade

It was essentially a draft selection made by Portland.

 

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?

 

And a first rounder I believe

 

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.

 

I have to agree with both,Il oved tose guys and was never a Kiki fan.

 

Letting the RLEC expire.

That pissed me off.

 

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.

 

I love Rod Strickland's game.

 

Yeah.... but he was an asshole.

 

Good point. Not as painful. But in hindsight, I'd still take Chris Paul. In like a fucking nanosecond.

 

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.

 

Not saying he was lazy, just that he never earned the deal.

 

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.