Shaq to the Heat: the Re-Grade 🤝
All right we’re regrading the NBA’s biggest trades of all time and yeah it doesn’t get much bigger than Shaq so as a reminder here are the full trade details of a trade that went down basically a month after the Lakers lost the 2004 finals and there were three
Main reasons why Shaq wanted out everyone knows about the Kobe beef pun intended but also Phil Jackson had just stepped down as head coach and of course Shaq wanted more money and people forget just how good Shaq still was in Miami and obviously it all came together in
Their second year when Shaq and DW took the heat to the promised land but this trade was not an L for the Lakers Lamar Odum obviously turned into a franchise icon and hey the first round pick turned into Jordan Farmar but the crazy alternate reality here is that allegedly
The Lakers turned down an offer from the Mavs for Dirk and Steve Nash the final grades look this ended up being a win-win for both teams but if that Mavs report is true it could have been a bigger win for the Lakers
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This is pretty looked over but would the lakers get pau gasol if they got dirk?
Clique Productions needs to simulate this
"doesn't get bigger than Shaq" lmao clever Andrew, clever
scorching hot take: wilt chamberlain is the BEST basketball player of all time
How do you possibly turn down Nash and Dirk? Nash obviously wasn’t the MVP player he was in PHX at the time, but was still probably a top 5 PG or close to it at the time and Dirk was Dirk. Wtf??😂
The lakers did win a chip tho with pau
I just found out via this video that the day i was born was the day that shaq was traded to heat
marvin bagley trade next?
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that it was best for the Lakers to trade Shaq because if Kobe and Shaq stayed together we wouldn’t have witnessed 62 points in three quarters, 65 points against Portland, or even his famous 81 point game
The idea of Dirk and Nash (for Shaq) sounds amazing.
But Nash wasn’t yet the Nash everyone thinks of, and next to Kobe and Dirk while also not being under d’Antoni I’m not sure he would become that Nash, still a very good starting caliber point guard, just not Phoenix Nash.
Offensively Dirk is an upgrade over Pau, but he is a downgrade defensively, there is also a good chance he doesn’t become an MVP either.
Then you have the questions of how the rest of the team gets filled out, with now three big contracts.
Cuban so dumb bro wtf
Bro…Kobe, Dirk, and a young Steve Nash?! Why would you EVER turn that down 😭😭😭?!
Steve Nash joined the Suns as a free agent that same off-season. He literally won MVP in 05' on the Suns. FAKE NEWS.
Clyde Drexler to the Rockets?
Can u do the Monta Ellis and Andrew Bogut please??? I love you vids #BestShorts
U should regrade Charles Barkley to the 76ers🔥
Honestly they should've went with that trade with the mavericks 🤦 but at the same time I can't be too mad because the Lakers went back to back anyways
kobe, dirk, and nash would’ve absolutely shitstomped the league
Kobe beef😂
That’s dumb because you’re trading him in the same conference, you’re going to have to deal with them come playoff time.
The problem with Lakers after shaq left was that their team was kinda trash. They had kobe and yes they had Caron butler and Lamar but they had a trash center and a trash point guard.
Like how tf are you a starting 7'0 center and averaging like 6 rebounds per game? Not to mention the years Kobe was literally forced to carry all the workload because Shannon Brown may be able to shoot and jump high but he's still mediocre as a starter imo and the bust Kwame Brown.
If Dirk Nowitzki Steve Nash and Kobe Bryant were on the same team that would literally be another three peat immediately