In a vacuum it seems odd but when you add the context of where OKC was as a rebuilding franchise, taking on salary to get a first round pick is exactly why Sam Presti has them as young and talented as they are.
To be fair to Kemba Walker he was an All Star starter in 2020 also he had injuries during his Celtics years and they used him to get Al Horford back too but i would've chose Gordon Hayward instead of Kemba
@@Cee-acts Max is making like 8 mil a year, pretty cheap. most bad deals now are albatross contracts that end up BECOMING bad at the end because of their age, but aren't terrible for 2 or even 3 years. Beal is I'd say the worst contract given out at the time, maybe ever. His is absolutely radioactive
What’s wrong with the McDermott signing??? The spurs needed to sign SOMEONE when they were rebuilding. Most of those years they were below the salary floor anyways. If there’s someone better they could have signed I’m all ears, but I don’t think that many players wanted to join the Spurs as they were rebuilding. So you get Doug and he provides floor spacing for your young players - as we’ve seen in Detroit, not having spacing around your young stars is extremely damaging. And then at the end of the contract they traded McDermott for a 2nd round pick. So they even still got positive value. Someone’s gotta tell me why McDermott was a bad signing because I am not seeing it at all
And bragged about it, then talked bad about the teams after, once the fans turned on him. He basically led to the grizzlies firing their whole front office, so you can also say Parsons ultimately led to them drafting Ja so......
@@andrewdevlin8756Yeah I agree that it wasn't a bad signing, it was a deal you agree to in hopes you make a big run or it gets you over the top and deal with the fallout later kind of thing. Was Kyle worth the first year of the deal kinda, is he gonna be worth it at the end? Probably not, but if they win a chip in any of those years nobody is saying shit about it
How on earth is signing Doug McDermott not a good use of cap space for a rebuilding team? You have to spend the cap but you aren’t trying to win and he spaces the floor for the young guys to operate. You just had nothing else to say for the spurs so you just blatantly lied.
I commented this b4 I watched n knew ahha. As a Magic fan, that Biymbo free agent signing in 2016 still haunts me to this day! Glad Magic are way past that.
Looking forward to a similar video in 5-10 years. Curious how Sixers deal for PG ages. I haven't seen him positively impact winning since he left Indy. $53 a year is quite a chunk but they had to take a swing because Joel's window is probably closing. He is a wonderful talent but a massive dude with lower body injuries compounding. I think next year HAS to be their chance. We shall see if George can return to Playoff P form.
Idk man I think you couldve found worse deals for some of these teams. McDermott signing for the Spurs wasnt great but 14M isnt a lot in todays NBA at all and only a 3 yr deal isnt a long time. Plus they were able to trade him for assets.
I remember that, i wouldn't say those guys failed though they played just fine. We're they overpaid definently but that had to do with timing more than anything.
Another one for the Pelicans: Giving Solomon Hill a 4 yr/48M contract in the 2016 offseason for someone who only average 4 pts per game on 33% from deep the season prior to that 😫
I’m not even mad about the Mozgov and Deng contracts now because that was the first year when the NBA increased their salary cap so players was gonna get crazy contracts
I wouldn’t consider Jeremy Lin a bad contract by Houston. Overall he came there to be the primary ball handler and they suddenly traded for harden which limited his growth. If Lin signed elsewhere where he had the ball he prob would’ve developed into a good player.
The Al Horford situation is kind of funny. The 76ers signed him because he would shut down Embiid while on the Celtics. He loses form and is traded to OKC and then back to Boston where he finds his form again. Kemba was a decent signing, but he injured his knee right before the 2020 All Star game and hasn't been the same since.
That 2016 offseason was so crazy because of how much the cap went up with the new TV deal. (Which is part of why Golden State was able to do the KD move). Along with this the cap floor shot up too. These teams were required to spend this money somewhere so they gave all these mid players a BAG. Lol
Not sure if this counts, but as a cavs fan it could arguably been the Kevin love extension when LeBron and Kyrie was gone he wasn’t a great leader and didn’t end well
As a Hornets fan that Batum contract doesn’t feel so bad retroactively. Compared to some of these other bad deals, Batum’s wasn’t as bad as I remember it being.
DeMarre Carroll was easily the worst signing for the Spurs they had to do a sign and trade giving up Davis Bertans to get him and signed him for 3 years only to waive him during his 1st year of the the 3yr deal, He only played 15 games for them.
Does Jordan Poole not count as a free agency signing? Because he's clearly a worse signing than Russell. They literally traded him before his contract even kicked in. And the player they got back for him (Chris Paul) was a lot less useful for them than the player they got back for Russell.
Utah has a worse one you missed. Derrick favors return to utah. Him and golbert couldn't play on the floor together, which is why they had traded him to NOLA the season before. Yet they resigned him for 3 years at $27million....to unload him him to OKC 7 months later with a 1st round pick to get out of the luxury tax. Exum at least was flipped for Clarkson who's been a Jazz staple since.
Problem with the 2016-2017 signings was that they weren’t needle movers. Everyone knew those finals were going to look like. So giving a guy 80Mil just to be at best a first round exit didn’t do anything to improve the outlook
As much as I hated THJ, for the Mavs I'd have to go with signing JaVale McGee a second time. They're still paying him today after stretch waiving him. It's a pretty small contract but all that jumping through hoops and promising a starting position just to sign the Shaqtin all time MVP was pretty gnarly.
That Noah contract was terrible, just having to suffer watch him shoot foul shots was painful enough. Youd think all those years playing basketball he would work on his shooting form.
McBuckets is not a bad deal. It was a marriage of convenience, Spurs needed to spend money, and they could get some draft picks later on, which they did, a 2029 2nd round from the Clips. The worst contract is paying someone 2 million a year for the next 3 years after you waiving him! Tim Duncan still playing defense by getting steals at age 43.
For the wolves being a dumpster fire for 2/3 of their existence they really haven’t done a lot of terrible contracts. Could’ve gone Joe Smith under the table contract since that did cost them multiple 1’s. Pekovic and martin were actually good but on horrible teams
I wish this had been just over the last five years then we would see how the mostly current regimes of these teams management were handling their transactions. If the last 20 years then it's kind of out of context and doesn't really show what a team has been doing lately. It ends up having nothing to do with the current rosters. With that said let's blast some bad management.😊
personally i think the hayward trade OKC made recently was their worst. traded tre mann (who played decent for charlotte after) and i think 3 second round picks for him and he contributed absolutely nothing for the team.tre mann couldve done SOMETHING. 30mil for a bench warmer is pretty bad
Nah man. I mean for one this is about free agent signings. Secondly OKC got rid of three contracts of guys they would have had to pay and didn't fit their rotation past the 2024 season. It was a win win trade. OKC payed more last season which they didn't mind and now had the cap space to go out and do things like sign Hartenstein and resign their two back ups they actually want in their rotation. I will grant you that having had to add two second rounders seems a tad much considering Hayward wasn't able to contribute at all..
Yes, it works just like a normal trade, the only reason sign and trades are more popular now is so the team that "lost" them get some kind of compensation in return or if the team gaining the player wants to shuffle money around to better equip themselves during FA
