The Nets made one of the worst trades in NBA history and still rebuilt faster than the Knicks

"The Bucks haven't reached the finals again to this day" Kinda funny now that Giannis got them their 2nd championship.

3 drafts in a row. Kevin durant. Russel westbrook. James harden. Incredible. And now OKC has none of them lmfao

Why does everyone leave out the fact that Kobe refused to play in Charlotte? And that’s why they traded him

Who tf would pay Kendrick Perkins 32 million yo they shoulda cut from him and give to harden

How about Andre Drummond to the Cavs for a bag of chips this season 😂

4:07 - the reason why Kobe got traded from Charlotte to the lakers was because he didn’t want to to play in Charlotte. Charlotte was a small town at the time Kobe was in the NBA Draft, so I wouldn’t consider that being a bad trade.

Let's get something straight. The hornets traded the 13th pick for Divac. The Lakers told the hornets to draft Kobe.

Okc is a drafting genius their three picks in a row were mvps

You forget when nets trade kyle korver for copy machine

Imagine the thunder keeping KD, Russ, and harden. Now that's a team!!!!

This video is easy, just put all of knicks trades in to last 20 years 😂

So we ain’t gonna talk about Charles Barkley got drafted when he was 14, so Inspirational

“The bucks haven’t reached the finals to this day” Giannis: disrespectful!!

6:18 One year later, the Bucks just won the NBA championship. It's crazy how unpredictable the NBA can be at times

Kobe's Trade was the best in my opinion Kobe just helped the Lakers for so long.

@6:18 i'm from tha future and tha Bucks returned to tha NBA Finals after u made tha vid lol however i'm a Lakers fan tho

8:45 Why is Larry Bird and LeBron James with a bulls jersey? Me: Nba did it

Some of these aren’t bad trades at the time, it’s just unknowingly trading future Hall of Famers

Imagine paying 32 millions to Kendrick Perkins and losing James Harden

7:00 Ed at the time of the trade for Russell was a *6 TIME ALL STAR* and did end up in the Hall. Not up to Bill, but a bit more than a "good player" - and he had told Red he WANTED to go to Atlanta prior to the trade, for family reasons. 7:30 Wilt never signed a 1 year NBA deal (he did sign one with the Globetrotters while he had to wait a year for NBA eligibility). He DID force trades twice though.

Imagine the duo of AI and Charles Barkley

1:59 "I am immune to your Jedi mind tricks" - and I have to wonder if this ever worked on his old teammate Larry Bird.... Both did learn a lot from their time under Red though. 4:17 Jerry's run was impressive - but not the best ever. 5:38 Then schooled by Wilt, especially the 4'th quarter of Game 6, in the WCF the following year - but Wilt was getting old and running out of steam and getting disgruntled AGAIN....

Lets just appreciate what a good bideo this was (amazing photos and files...)

“Milwaukee haven’t reached a final to this day” a year later and they’re champions

During that time Kobe-Vlade trade was actually lopsided in favor of the Hornets since Kobe wasn’t exactly a sure thing coming out of high school. Truth to be told if he didn’t play for the Lakers no one knows how he would’ve turned out. Hindsight is 20/20 that’s why it’s easy to come up with something like this.

Lol the garnet pierce trade was hysterical 🤣

My personal worst trade is Bobby Jones for George McGinnis (Denver traded Jones to Philly for McGinnis). Denver traded away the best defensive player at the time to the team with the best offensive player (Dr. J) for a so-so forward in McGinnis (yeah, I know he was considered better but he didn't show it in Denver). I knew one of the owners of the Nuggets at that time, family friend, and told him they made a HUGE mistake in trading away Bobby Jones. The Nuggets the first year with McGinnis had a barely winning season, and Jones went on with the Sixers winning an NBA title with Dr. J & Moses Malone a couple of years later.

Well either way the Hornets were going to lose Bryant anyway considering he absolutely hated to play in a small market like Charlotte

Pippen was so under appreciated

Nets traded for Old Paul Pierce and KG giving up Picks who were eventually a Future All Star Jaylen Brown, a potential MVP winner Jayson Tatum and Stud PG Collin Sexton. Smh

"Hold my brick" - LeLakers Russell Westbrook

The reactions fans had on these trades are probebly the worst ever

Tractor Traylor didn’t play for Michigan State, he played for the University of Michigan.

That line about never trading with Danny Ainge still rings true to this day... fleeced the hell of the Rudy Gobert trade with the Twolves lmaoo

I was here before this channel blows up

8:46 and 8:48 he showed Larry in a bulls jersey and lbj was in a bulls jersey

It's weird watching this video after the bucks are one win away from the championship

Kawhi for DeRozan is definitely an honorable mention, Toronto got a ring and San Antonio is having their worst stretch since the 90’s

Very good vid

The year after this video buck won the finals

Them: OKC never reached the final till then Me: Bruh OKC fought Rockets in the PLAYOFFS

@3:47 it says Robert Traylor played for "Michigan State" while the video shows him playing for Michigan. It's still a good video, I gave it a like.

There are honestly a LOT worse trades in NBA history than the Kareem trade. Short of trading him for ANOTHER Kareem, "experts" were going to call this a one-sided trade. This trade was actually a pretty good one for the Bucks. Bridgeman became one of the best 6th Man in the league, and Winters averaged 19 per game his first 4 years with the Bucks and was a 2x All-Star. They kept the team afloat through the lean years of the late 70s until the Bucks drafted Sidney Moncrief and Marques Johnson and began the "Nelly Ball" era of the 80s.

The Celtics trade when they sent away Kevin Garnet and Paul Pearce may be the best trade they’ve made in a while they picked up serious draft picks 2 of them Tatum and Brown both averaged 20+ points per game this season

Who else is watching this and the bucks are in the finals

Shaq and Kobe aren't the best duo in NBA history. I'd still put Magic and Kareem and definitely Michael and Scottie over them.

Is everyone gunna ignore the fact that Wilt said he wanted to go to LA for the woman?😂

WOW did you miss one. In a pre-draft trade on June 9th, 1980, the Boston Celtics traded the draft rights to the 1st pick (Joe Barry Carroll) and the 13th pick (Rickey Brown) in the 1980 NBA Draft for center Robert Parish and the rights to the 3rd pick in the NBA draft (Kevin McHale).

The Blazers didn't keep Moses because they had Bill Walton at the time, so it was understandable. The insane part was that the Braves didn't even hold on to Moses. After only 2 games with the team, he was shipped to the Rockets for a couple of first round picks. It was in Houston that his career really took off.

About the final appearances you are wrong about a couple 😭💯

Some of these pictures are synched up weird. You've got Barkley being drafted with the year 1976 in the background and then you go on to talk about the Sixers missing the playoffs in 1991-1992 and there's a photo of Barkley with Dr. J and Mo Cheeks. Very odd.

Would the Kevin McHale/ Robert "Chief" Parrish for Joe "Barely Cares" Carol count here????

of course wilt wanted to go to la for the women 😂 7:44

Aw yes Ainge you my friend is another reason why I'm a celtics fan and have been since I started watching basketball when I was 12 and learned and studied the game and celtics history cause I fell in love with the team cause your the smartest GM there is even though I hated to see KG and pierce leave but it worked out well for us

You left out a key point in the Kobe trade. He refused to play for the Hornets and forced their hand in trading him. Ive always wondered if West had a hand in that part too.

When a player demands a trade it kind of ruins the fact of how bad a trade it was. It's kind of expected at that point.

Jerry West and Danny Ainge great two of the best GMS in all of sports!!!

Nets: Paul pierce and KG-D’angelo Russel-KD and Kyrie Knicks:Carmelo-Mitchell Robinson- JuLiuS rAnDLe

A very good video.

Also, as a Knicks fan I remember this one. A god awful Knicks team that needed their picks trades for Eddy Curry. Those picks became LaMarcus Aldridge and Joakim Noah.

The Kobe Bryant trade was actually a great trade, Charlotte drafted him knowing that he would never play for them but that they could get a good player for him, he alluded to the fact that he only wanted to play for the Lakers maybe the Sixers, but Charlotte was gutsy enough to hold Bryant's rights hostage to make sure the Lakers didn't just get a free pass to Kobe, of course Kobe was way better than Vlade Divac. Also technically you can't consider Kobe Bryant a lifelong Laker if he was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets.

Pessimistic person: worst trades in the nba history. Optimistic person: best trades In the nba history.

6:44 Donald Sterling: "Now THAT'S my type of team!!"

This is unfair for Divac.. At that time Kobe didnt want to play in Charlotte and he is still a rookie so a trade for then established Vlade is fair.. 🤔😁

Me watching this in 2021 when the bucks are in the finals be like 0_0

The biggest mistake made by any NBA team was in 1984 draft when the Portland trailblazers had the 2nd pick to get Michael Jordan, but they passed him to pick center Sam Bowie instead which later turned to be a bust. The Chicago Bulls picked M. Jordan after Portland showed no interest in him The first draft that year went to Houston Rockets who picked Hakeem Olajuwon..

8:46 Larry Bird in a Bulls jersey 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

7:09 what? I think you missed something there.

Lakers snagging these hall of famers

6:20 Though they came within one game in 2001, losing the ECF in 7 games to the 76ers

6:38 Red engineered the trade for the draft rights to Russell before the draft, there was NO "Russell wasn't intended to play with the Celtics". However, it did COST - Red traded away a multi-time established All Star (Ed Macauley) and 2 future Hall of Fame members (Ed and Cliff Hagan) AND some off-court stuff to get Russell, and was very happy with the results. It wasn't a total loss for the Hawks though - they DID beat the Russell-led Celtics behind Bob Pettit, Macauley, and Hagan in the 1958 Finals - the ONLY time that Russell lost a championship series (and Alex Hannum as coach was also the only man to ever defeat the Russell-era Celtics TWICE in the playoffs, once with Atlanta and once with the WIlt-led 76ers).

ROBERT TRAYLOR PLAYED FOR u of m the university of Michigan not Michigan state!! smh

Kobe demanded a train so u can’t say it was Charlotte hornets fault

9:30 Barkley was IMO the second-best PF in the league - behind Kevin McHale - but the point COULD be argued as Kevin was starting to slow down a bit. What can't be argued was that he was the best player the 76ers had left at that point - and it wasn't even close.

“Milwaukee hasnt reached the finals to this day” That didn’t age well

who’s here after harden got traded to the nets

Add the britney griner trade

4:12 yes, Jerry West had made the BEST decision for the franchise, also made the Lakers the most iconic franchise

Scottie and MJ are the best one two punch. Kobe and Shaq are a distant second.

You forgot to mention the trade of Drummond on the cavs

Your video could not be more wrong! Kobe was never going to play for Charlotte. He said don’t draft me and wouldn’t come to Charlotte for a work-out. They made the best out of the situation.

@ Nonstop Sports, at 9:17 Barkley started his career in 1986 not 1976!

No parish and McHale for Joe Barry Carroll and Ricky brown? No Don Ford for the rights to James Worthy? No Dominique Wilkins for John Drew and Freeman Williams? No Dennis Johnson and Greg Kite for Rick Robey? No Dennis Rodman for Will Perdue?

I wouldn't call the Vlade/Kobe trade one of the worst ever. Obviously Kobe became an all-time great, but Vlade was still a decent to good center. Those Charlotte teams he was on from 96-98 won 54 and 51 games.

Yeah no the OKC was Harden being selfish

6:28 & the same night Red traded for Bill Russell...they got Tommy Heinsohn as a territorial pick. a pretty good night!

James Harden is allergic to defense and hard work, he's a "no cigar," kinda guy. The Toronto Raptors traded Vince Carter for new team uniforms, that's gotta be the worst of all time.

ITS JUST RACISM ABOUT THAT ST LOUIS HAWKS TOOK 2 WHITE MAN INSTEAD OF AN HALL OF FAMER -_-

Barkley wasn’t drafted in 1976...

The way he says ‘Nowitzki’ looool. Put some respect on it

You should do too 10 draft mistakes. Especially with the Curry and Klay drafts that if gone how supposed to things would be very very different today

watching when the bucks are in the finals lol

Don’t forget vlade is a hall of famer

9:44 Andrew Lang was so unknown, that this dude thinks his name was Andrew "Kang"

Some others: 1980: The Warriors send Robert Parish and the #3 overall pick to the Celtics for the #1 and 13 overall picks. The Celtics get Parish, Mchale, and three titles. The Warriors get Joe Barely Cares, and don't make the playoffs for seven more years. 2011: The Pacers trade Kawhi Leonard to the Spurs for George Hill. This trade didn't hurt the Pacers as much as it helped the Spurs. They may not have won another chip without this trade.

Kobe trade was the best trade ever

Like to prove the KZfaq Algorithm

Should’ve been a top 20 list, because there are several trades that could’ve been mentioned here, such as: • Indiana trading Alex English to Denver for George McGinnis • Dallas trading Dale Ellis to Seattle for Al Woods • Atlanta trading Dominique Wilkins to the LA Clippers for Danny Manning • Golden State trading Mitch Richmond to Sacramento for Billy Owens

5:29 Kareem looks like a fish character from Spongebob