10 WORST Trades In NBA History 

"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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You forget when nets trade kyle korver for copy machine

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

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

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.

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

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

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....

Imagine the duo of AI and Charles Barkley

“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

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

Lol the garnet pierce trade was hysterical 🤣

@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

@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.

“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.

I was here before this channel blows up

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.

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

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

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

Very good vid

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

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

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

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

Pippen was so under appreciated

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

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

"Hold my brick" - LeLakers Russell Westbrook

Imagine paying 32 millions to Kendrick Perkins and losing James Harden

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

A very good video.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"And Milwaukee hasn't made the finals to this day" made me had to check the date om the vid

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.

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

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

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

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.

The year after this video buck won the finals

Young Durant, Westbrook, and Harden OKC was my favorite team as a child. Keeping harden is a massive what if story for me as a thunder fan, knowing they'll get Ibaka and Adams on the way for their defense. Sucks that the management is too cheap

How is the name of the music of the Dani Ange part?

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.

You forgot to mention the trade of Drummond on the cavs

To be fair, the Thunder easily should’ve taken over the conference without Harden. Besides choking in 2016, there was a significant injury every season after 2012.

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.

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

Lakers snagging these hall of famers

6:19 Giannis - Fine I will do it myself

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

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

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.. 🤔😁

That OKC team was so good...but that org just don't want to win a title lol. 8:45 wtf are those pictures in a bulls outfit? :D

1:59 - What if you can turn Ainge's mind tricks against him and counter-hoodwink him?

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

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.

5:29 Kareem looks like a fish character from Spongebob

On Kareem, the bucks from 79 to 89 were like the 4th best team in the nba behind Boston, Philly and the Lakers. So many good bucks during that time

Add the britney griner trade

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

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

The Magic sending Oladipo and Sabonis for Serge Ibaka

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.

who’s here after harden got traded to the nets

that dirk trade for Tractor Donut Traylor as a bucks fan still hurts

6:18 Milwaukee hasn’t reach the finals ever since Me: is that so

Yeah no the OKC was Harden being selfish

Barkley wasn’t drafted in 1976...

Irony is cavs ended up best out of that Irving trade. They got sexton. While nothing that special, is still the best thing on either team from that trade.

Yo big shout out to the bucks lmao first championship since Kareem