Willie Gordon Who are you replying to? You made like 4 replies that have nothing to do with the original comment. Someone delete their comment or something?
Right cuz when they drafted him at 51 they were really thinking they got a sharpshooter who will play 16+ years in the NBA n be an AllStar... by that logic only the entire NBA would let a sharpshooer fall to 51...
Kyle Korver went from traded for a copy machine to being the best three point shooter on a 50 win team to being LeBrons scapegoat, sounds like it came from a Will Farel movie
That’s not the trade though 🤦♂️ it was an agreement to not draft Bill Russell. Which they wasn’t going to in the first place and the show generates revenue.
Great video with full of unpopular information! Great job, always enjoyable to watch. Alsooo the great background music is there as nearly always! Thanks Andy!
February 7, 1979: Sixers trade Harvey Catchings and Ralph Simpson to the Nets for Eric Money and Al Skinner - on the surface, nothing out of the ordinary...except that, with a protest-granted replay of most the second half of a Sixers-Nets game from November taking place in March, three of the players involved (all but Skinner) ended up appearing in the game for both teams.
You might want to consider Wilt to the 76ers for a couple of journeymen and an All-Star... who had already been retired for a year and a half, albeit with a lot of tread still left on his tires. In the event, Lee Shaffer declined to come back.Plus, I suspect, the league threw in a top first round draft choice to encourage the deal -- the Warriors and the Knicks (who also needed help) split the first four picks the next year.
Andy -- I'm Irv Levin's cousin, and while you got the basics of the story correct, two notes: 1) The photo is not of Irv Levin. and 2) as part of the deal between Irv and John Brown, several players were swapped as well, including the rights to a guy by the name of Larry Bird.
Actually it was the Celtics other #1 pick that year Freeman Williams. The Celtics main haul though was Tiny Archibald who revived his career in Boston.
A weird trade that I remember was the Rudy Gay trade from the Raptors to the Kings. One of those trades that looked like the Raps were going to tank and lots of rumors of trading away Lowry and starting a rebuild. They turned the ship around and the Raptors are having their best run in franchise history. They are closer than they've ever been to a title. #inmasaiwetrust
No he wasn't, he resigned from the Knicks to go to the Heat. The Knicks then accused the Heat of tampering so the Heat gave the Knicks a first round pick .
Van Gundy is not the first coach traded. In 1987 the Bucks traded coach Don Nelson to GSW in exchange for a 2nd round pick, wich ended being center Andrew Lang.
1950's St. Louis Hawks coach: "I don't want Russell on our team. He's a negro!" >Celtics become a NBA dynasty thanks to Russell >Majority of the current NBA players are black men >Hawks eventually relocated to Atlanta, a city with a large black population Karma straight up whooped that coach's ass with a open hand lol
Manu was picked lower - but he was a VERY RARE exception to the "not much out of the second round" rule of thumb. Ed Macauley had stated he wanted to move for family reasons, and would not have played for Boston the following year anyway.
Well, in Poland we had a case when a footballer (soccer player for US guys) was sold to another team for 30 balls 😁 He later became a pretty good striker and played for the national team a couple times
Seth Kasso He’s probably just a big time basketball stat nut. That’s what I do in my down time. Just skim basketball reference, going through drafts, trades, no name players. I’m starting to run out of material lol.
Here's another one to consider: Bob Cousy from Boston to Cincinnati in 1969. Cousy had been retired as a player since the 1962-63 season and was in his first season as the coach of the Royals. The team wasn't playing well, and Cousy decided that what they needed was for him to become a player-coach at 41. Unfortunately for the Cous, the Celtics still owned his rights as a player and demanded compensation and the Royals sent Bill Dinwiddie (who was hurt) to the Celtics. Dinwiddie did play the next season, averaging 4.9 points in 61 games. Cousy, on the other hand, played in 7 games and scored a total of 5 points before re-retiring for good. The Celtics also ended up getting Quinn Buckner from Milwaukee when Dave Cowens came out of retirement.
Back in those days, the Celtics used to play a home game or two at the Hartford Civic Center each season. They didn’t own the Boston Garden. Also, I think Danny Ainge was from Utah, so there was some connection.
Wow. Trading away Kyle Korver for a copy machine seems pretty much hilarious but yes he did once insist that the copy machine didn't worked while he's still is. 🤣
Founded in 1970 as Braves, they moved to SD in 1978 (changing their name into Clippers) and in LA in 1985.........As a reult, we Lakers are the 1st LA team (moved from Minneapolis in 1960)