15 DUMBEST Trades In NBA History

15 DUMBEST Trades In NBA History

Did you ever watch a trade go down and immediately ask yourself what the hell was that GM thinking these are the dumbest trades in NBA history starting with a 2022 trade that was maybe the biggest overpay in NBA history we’re talking about Rudy goar who got traded

To Minnesota for five players they send Malik Beasley Patrick Beverly Jared Vanderbilt the number 22 overall pick Walker Kessler and five first round picks granted Rudy was a three-time defensive player of the year and his production on that side of the floor is undeniable but offensively goar is often

Just a bystander who can’t dribble pass or shoot Go’s going to shoot a three and he’ll be earning upward of $40 million until 2026 also two of the guys the Wolves traded for him actually played better defense than Rudy in 2023 if that wasn’t catastrophic enough the Timberwolves could have also traded for

Kevin Durant that same summer in 2022 without Rudy the Wolves won 48 games and with him in 2023 they won just 41 in 2024 the Timberwolves have finally figured out how to incorporate the big Frenchmen within their offense but with two other Allstars and a great Supporting Cast they should have been a

Winning team even without the gobear trade but hey if their team keeps winning then maybe it wasn’t such a bad trade after all and we all know Rudy was paid like his basketball skills cure cancer but the GM who orchestrated this trade is widely considered the sneakiest

NBA GM of the last 20 years Danny a began his executive career in 2003 and his ruthless decisionmaking earned him the nickname Trader Danny in 2007 Ang’s genius shined to the fullest when he traded for Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen who had 17 All-Star selections between

Them and would win the 2008 title in Boston but the best part is that all that a gave up was a young and unproven Jeff Green and Al Jefferson a few picks and a couple of guys who are on their last NBA legs and this was just the

Beginning of a making other general managers look stupid in 2017 a Bamboozled the Sixers for an extra first round pick when he gave them the number one overall pick which they used on the broken marel folz while a got the third pick that became Jason Tatum later that

Year a basically conned the Cavaliers when he gave them an injured Isaiah Thomas and Jay Crowder for Kyrie Irving but Ang’s kudagra and his absolute GM masterpiece was how he fleed Billy King in the Brooklyn Nets in 2013 Kevin Garnett Paul Pierce and Jason Terry were

A combined 110 years old and were on oneyear deals when Brooklyn made one of the most boneheaded trades ever going all in with a weak hand for the ancient package from Boston the Nets paid a Kings Ransom five players and four first round picks which later turned into

Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum after the Nets got dominated by LeBron in the 2014 playoffs James Pierce and kg left and Brooklyn was stuck with a bad roster and no first round picks which crippled their franchise for years however that Nets catastrophe is nothing when you

Compare it to what the Clippers did in 1976 the Clippers were then known as the Buffalo Braves and what they did that season was the worst year of executive decisions not just in the NBA but in all of sports see the Braves had three Hall of Fame players in their prime plus a

Hall of Fame coach and in the space of just one year they messed it all up first after he lost the 1976 Conference Finals the Braves fired coach Jack Ramsey who would go on to win the NBA title with Portland the very next season two months later when the ABA merged

With the NBA Buffalo got incredibly lucky to select Moses Malone in the expansion draft Malone was already an All-Star in the ABA but when he came to the Braves they inexplicably kept him on the bench when Malone protested they traded him just two weeks into the season in exchange for two first round

Picks Malone would go on to win three MVP awards along with 12 more All-Star selections and he’s in the top five all time in rebounds and top 10 in points but the Braves weren’t done yet cuz in 1972 Buffalo drafted Bob McAdoo and by 1976 McAdoo was already a four-time

All-Star three-time scoring champion and the league MVP but that clearly wasn’t good enough for the Braves who traded one of the top three players in the NBA to the Knicks for John Gianelli a guy who averaged eight points per game but that’s not all folks because the Braves

Also had Adrien Dantley a future six-time All-Star and two-time scoring champion Dantley averaged 20 points per game for Buffalo and won 1977 rookie of the year after which the Braves traded him for Billy Knight granted Knight was an All-Star so this move wasn’t so terrible or at least it wouldn’t have

Been if the Braves hadn’t also traded Knight after only one season if they kept those three future Hall of Famers and Coach Ramsey the Braves could have dominated the league for the next 15 years but like a drunk millionaire they squandered everything for 10 cents on the dollar however Bob McAdoo and Moses

Malone weren’t the only Hall of Fame centers to get traded for virtually nothing in fact almost every great big man of that era got exchanged for peanuts in 1975 Kareem Abdul Jabar decided that he was done with Milwaukee and demanded a trade to either New York

Or LA and despite having the two richest teams bidding for the best NBA player the Bucks couldn’t muster more than Junior Bridgeman Dave Meyers and Elmore Smith none of whom averaged more than 13 points per game in their career 10 years earlier another franchise was stuck in the corner and

Had to trade the best player in the NBA in 1965 the San Francisco warriors got into finan cial trouble and their only way out was to trade Wilt Chamberlain however the return for the man who averaged 41 points and 25 rebounds for their franchise was extremely slim Connie deking who averaged eight points

Per game and got traded away just one year later Paul Newman who retired after 3 years and 13 points per game and Lee Schaefer who retired before playing a single game for the Warriors meanwhile Wilt would go on to win the title with the Sixers but after just four years he

Demanded another trade and just like the Warriors the Sixers also dropped the ball receiving two players who averaged less than 10 points per game and Archie Clark who was an aging All-Star past his prime but as dramatic as Wilt lopsided trades were it’s even crazier what happened to his arch nemesis Bill

Russell before the 1956 NBA draft the Celtics coach and GM red hour back first traded Allstar Ed mccaulay and Cliff Hagen to the St Louis Hawks to move up in the draft and secure the second pick the the Hawks didn’t want to draft Russell because their owner was racist

And so they were glad to make the deal with the Celtics still Boston was in a bad position because the Rochester Royals also wanted Russell and they were picking number one but since the Celtics owner also owned the ice capades a hit ice skating Traveling Show hour back

Convinced Rochester to pass on Russell in exchange for several ice capades performances over the years somehow both the Hawks and the Royals accepted those deals and Russell became a Celtic where he would win 11 championships in the next 13 Seasons however this wasn’t the last time red hour back fooled somebody

To create a dynasty after he gambled and drafted Larry Bird in 1978 before his final year of college arback wasn’t done and he pulled off an even bigger miracle in the 1980 NBA draft the Celtics had the first and 13th overall selection that year but the old Fox hour back

Decided to trade those two picks to Golden State for Robert Parish and the third overall pick which they used on Kevin mcale who combined for 16 All-Star Seasons with the Celtics in the span of Just 2 years arback formed the greatest front Court in NBA history and the media

Dubbed the trade for parish and male the steel of the century but the Celtic’s biggest rival and a franchise that’s tied with Boston with 17 NBA titles is also no stranger to dumb trades the LA Lakers won their last championship in 2020 and they kept largely the same team

In 2021 when they had the best defense in the NBA but after the Unlucky injuries to both ad and LeBron the Lakers got bounced out of the 2021 playoffs in the first round and then they stupidly decided to part ways with the best perimeter defense in the NBA to

Add another layer of golden paint in one of the worst deals in Lakers history LA sent out Kyle kozma cavius calwell Pope Montes Herold and one first round pick in exchange for a 33-year-old Russell Westbrook and his max contract because of that they also couldn’t pay Alex Caruso and Dennis Schroeder which

Plummeted their defense and killed their floor spacing even with LeBron and AD La played ugly inefficient and ultimately losing basketball for a year and a half and they could do nothing about it because Westbrook’s massive contract constricted them from making any meaningful additions finally during the 2023 trade deadline the Lakers got rid

Of Russ after which they had the best record in the remaining part of the season but for some franchises the worst mistakes don’t happen when they misjudge the existing NBA talent but the future ones the worst draft trade ever happened in 1996 when the Hornets drafted Kobe Bryant but then immediately traded him

To the Lakers for vlat dvat who spent just two years in Charlotte and averaged 11 points per game then there’s also the 1998 Draft when the Bucks traded Dirk Nowitzki to Dallas for Robert tractor trailer who averaged just 4.5 points per game in two years in Milwaukee while

Dirk scored over 30,000 points for the Mavs the 1987 Draft when the Super Sonics gifted Scotty Pippen to the Bulls in exchange for Olden polles also deserves to be mentioned however in the last 10 years in the NBA most big lopsided trades happened when a disgruntled Superstar wanted to change

Teams in 2012 James Harden wanted to get a Max contract from the Thunder who low balled him and offered him $5 million less the beard felt disrespected and the Thunder panicked swiftly trading him to the first bidder darl Mory whom Harden currently hates more than anyone darl m

Is a liar and I will never be a part of an organization that he’s a part of correctly believe that James was a superstar obviously working hard to get back to being a championship Contender and we feel like James Harden is a player we can build around and he got

Him for 20 cents on the dollar in the next nine Seasons James averaged almost 30 points per game for for the rockets and his trade was the beginning of the end for the Thunders Dynasty and a guy who wasn’t always Harden’s biggest fan we said I would hate to play with this

Guy he dribble drible drible drible drible dri drible and then choose to step back three did the exact same thing as James 20 years earlier in 1992 Charles Barkley felt that he was rotting in Philadelphia and wasting his Prime on a bad team so the Sixers agreed to trade

Barkley who was arguably the second best player in the world but all they got for him was a season and a half of Jeff hornek and a couple of bench Riders some honorable mentions are when Indiana traded Alex English to Denver just before he blossomed into an eight-time

All-Star or when the Spurs traded the best rebounder in NBA history to the Bulls for will Purdue who averaged four points and four rebounds per game if you want to learn more about the NBA click on this video right here and subscribe to nonstop

The trades in this video are some of the most lopsided in NBA history.

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