Kayo Police
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What? You can trade a coach in the NFL?
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What's the worst sports trade of all time?
- Thread starter JinjoUnchained
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What? You can trade a coach in the NFL?
Ron Mexico
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Yep. Same thing was rumored for a while with Sean Payton iirc.
Jeff Albertson
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Whilst he was poor after that move they won the champions league with him scoring in the semi final so overall it didn't harm them too much
TheSkullPrince
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Yeah nothing will top the Herschel Walker trade since it led to those goddamn Cowboys dominating the early to mid 90s.
One fleecing that I can name right off the top of my head is the Atlanta Braves trading their future away for Mark Teixeira.
One fleecing that I can name right off the top of my head is the Atlanta Braves trading their future away for Mark Teixeira.
Frozenprince
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We also traded Tom Seaver in his prime.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Its the Harden trade. Their owner refused to open up the checkbook and they decided to keep Perkins instead and then proceeded to dump a guy who was already a superstar just coming off the bench for a bunch of spare parts.
The other trades folks are mentioning here (other than the Walker trade) are veterans for prospects or whatever which aren't entirely fair, you couldn't see a HOFer in the making coming. Harden was already a great, great player on OKC and they gave him up for a mediocre pick and Kevin Martin.
The other trades folks are mentioning here (other than the Walker trade) are veterans for prospects or whatever which aren't entirely fair, you couldn't see a HOFer in the making coming. Harden was already a great, great player on OKC and they gave him up for a mediocre pick and Kevin Martin.
Schwarzbier
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Almost any trade Mike Milbury was involved in with the Islanders could make a top ten list easy
Earthbound64
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A transaction in which something is exchanged for money is generally called "Sale," not "Trade"
Beating a fan with a shoe is a package deal.
superfriar19
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Not the worst but the Padres trading Anthony Rizzo for Andrew Cashner still hurts.
Frozenprince
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Cashner was a good pitcher tho, just wasted with bad development and bad supporting cast.
cartographer
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Thunder trading a first round pick and Lance Thomas for Dion Waiters.
RIP OKC.
RIP OKC.
superdeluxe
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Jason varitek and derek Lowe for heathcliff slocumb.
That was The worst.
Recently? Adam Jones for Erik Bedard.
God I hate the mariners
That was The worst.
Recently? Adam Jones for Erik Bedard.
God I hate the mariners
Nolan Ryan was definitely one of the worst trades. I'd also suggest Tom Seaver for assorted milk cans is right up there, too.
Worth it.
TestedTurok
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I'd say recently its probably Demarcus Cousins to NO or Carmelo to New York.
Vegetable Lasagna
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Herschel Walker mentioned already. Kobe Bryant, John Elway, and Brett Favre because they got them for pretty much nothing. Baseball has almost too many hilarious trades for me to be able to pick one. Oh, and Ryan Leaf because lol.
And as a bitter 49ers fan... Alex Smith. Pretty much threw away a likely Championship and sent the team back to the stone-age. I hate you Harbaugh.
And as a bitter 49ers fan... Alex Smith. Pretty much threw away a likely Championship and sent the team back to the stone-age. I hate you Harbaugh.
That wasn't Harbaugh, that was all Jed York. The team doesn't get blown up if Harbaugh wasn't fired.
It all started with that boneheaded decision.
Aye but they were already going to the final when he scored that goal, sure it secured it but it was right at the end of the game.
If we're allowing cash "trades". Andy Carroll to Liverpool. 35 million.
TheSecondSpitter
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The Economics of Trades in US Sports are completely different from European Soccer transfers. In Soccer the selling club more often than not does not have a choice in selling a player and getting cash in return doesn't directly help the team get better.
Phil kessel trade and everything that happened afterwards is one thing Boston and Toronto fans would like to forget
Toronto gets a superstar, but totally not close to championship territory they thought they were... gifts Boston a superstar and a top pairing defenseman... Boston proceeds to trade them for nothing because Chiarelli is a moron, Leafs finally accept they're going nowhere and trade Kessel for futures.
Everyone royally screwed up
Toronto gets a superstar, but totally not close to championship territory they thought they were... gifts Boston a superstar and a top pairing defenseman... Boston proceeds to trade them for nothing because Chiarelli is a moron, Leafs finally accept they're going nowhere and trade Kessel for futures.
Everyone royally screwed up
That was Odom for CP3 right? You guys had a magical FO.
There's a pretty killer example from the Australian Football League. Would struggle to find a comparison in any sport I reckon.
Carlton traded a first round and third round draft pick for Stephen O'Reilly.
He only went on to play 12 games for them (one season is 22 games) but it gets so much worse.
- They were illegally paying him (and several other players) a lot of money outside the salary cap.
- He dobbed them in to the AFL for it.
- They copped a $1million dollar fine (a lot for an AFL club at the time)
- They got a MASSIVE draft penalty (They lost picks 1, 2, 17 and 33 in the 2003 draft and pick 6 and 23 in the 2004 draft).
- The team had recently spent millions and millions poaching supercoach Denis Pagan to make them successful and instead they pissed the money away as all the penalties meant they were an absolute on-field joke for half a decade and he could do nothing about it./
So they basically traded picks 1, 2, 6, 16, 17, 24, 33, and 46, 1 million dollars, their integrity and reputation and their short-medium term prospects for a player who played 12 games.
BRUTAL.
Carlton traded a first round and third round draft pick for Stephen O'Reilly.
He only went on to play 12 games for them (one season is 22 games) but it gets so much worse.
- They were illegally paying him (and several other players) a lot of money outside the salary cap.
- He dobbed them in to the AFL for it.
- They copped a $1million dollar fine (a lot for an AFL club at the time)
- They got a MASSIVE draft penalty (They lost picks 1, 2, 17 and 33 in the 2003 draft and pick 6 and 23 in the 2004 draft).
- The team had recently spent millions and millions poaching supercoach Denis Pagan to make them successful and instead they pissed the money away as all the penalties meant they were an absolute on-field joke for half a decade and he could do nothing about it./
So they basically traded picks 1, 2, 6, 16, 17, 24, 33, and 46, 1 million dollars, their integrity and reputation and their short-medium term prospects for a player who played 12 games.
BRUTAL.
DasPenguin
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Elmore Smith, Brian Winters and two rookies for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. That led to a decade long run for the Lakers and nobody has heard from the Bucks ever since.
Still the Walker trade was even worse.
Still the Walker trade was even worse.
Trading picks that netted Joe Barry Carroll and Ricky Brown for Kevin McHale and Robert Parish has got to be right there with the Babe Ruth for cash and the Herschel Walker trade as among the most lopsided sport trades in history. Boston basically swindled 2 out of 3 of their Hall of Fame 80's frontline from Golden State.
What a trade that was. Not the worst trade of all time, but pretty bad nonetheless.
DeaconKnowledge
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49ers went to an NFC Championship game and a Super Bowl with Kaepernick after Alex Smith was traded.
OriginofHysteria
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Hmm..
Leafs trade Tuuka Rask for Andrew Raycroft
Leafs trade 1st round pick for Tom Kurvers (pick was Scott Niedermeyer)
Washington trading two first round picks for RGIII
Leafs trade Tuuka Rask for Andrew Raycroft
Leafs trade 1st round pick for Tom Kurvers (pick was Scott Niedermeyer)
Washington trading two first round picks for RGIII
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Honda over hyped that shit with their legacy, then proceeded to shit on it.
DasPenguin
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And Kaep was god awful in the Super Bowl. What makes you think they wouldn't have done the same with Smith?
Alex had a monster game the year before in the playoffs vs. The Saints, and the team missed the Super Bowl because of the return man fumbled twice. SF was playing great with Smith. I don't know how good that was for team morale yanking the starting QB after missing one game and the team playing well. Harbaugh just wanted to win it with the guy he drafted.
as a boston fan this was sad, but it was good timing: both of them were pretty much done and we had to get at least something to replace them.
Yoenis Cepedes for 3 months of Jon Lester
Josh Donaldson for Brett Lawrie and Kendall Graveman
Huston Street,Carlos Gonzalez and Greg Smith for a few months of Matt Holliday, then traded Holliday to the Cardinals for Greg Smith
Also trading players like Reggie Jackson,Rickey Henderson,Jose Canseco,Mark McGwire,Andre Ethier,Nelson Cruz,Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, etc.
The Oakland A's,everybody
Josh Donaldson for Brett Lawrie and Kendall Graveman
Huston Street,Carlos Gonzalez and Greg Smith for a few months of Matt Holliday, then traded Holliday to the Cardinals for Greg Smith
Also trading players like Reggie Jackson,Rickey Henderson,Jose Canseco,Mark McGwire,Andre Ethier,Nelson Cruz,Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, etc.
The Oakland A's,everybody
itsjustsurvival
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Martin Erat for Filip Forsberg
Not the worst in history, but the worst to me.
Not the worst in history, but the worst to me.
Al Michaels, live human being, was traded from NBC to ABC/Disney for the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a fictional character, in order to make Epic Mickey.
(Rights to golf and Olympic coverage were tossed in too)
This isn't the worst trade of all time but it's definitely one of the weirdest.
(Rights to golf and Olympic coverage were tossed in too)
This isn't the worst trade of all time but it's definitely one of the weirdest.
Lakers got CP3 and gave Gasol to the Rockets and Odom to the Hornets
Rockets got Gasol and gave up Scola, Dragic, Kevin Martin, first round pick all to the hornets
The Hornets would have received 4 players and a pick. Really not that bad of a deal for them.
The Lakers gave up an all star and sixth man of the year
The Rockets seemingly gave up the most but that never made Dan Gilbert cry salty tears. Glad LeBron is leaving his bum ass next summer and the Cavs will return to irrelevancy and he will lose billions in team value
Also love how people still mention that the Grizzlies got fleeced in the Gasol deal. Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't the Grizzlies had their most success as a franchise since Pau went to the Lakers?
McMoneyman
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Lmao is this legit? That's so weird.
Atomic Odin
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Veron to United
Veron to Chelsea
Veron to Chelsea
The defense was the biggest reason they lost that game. The 49ers defense couldn't stop Baltimore's passing attack during the first half. Flacco was completing everything he threw.
By the time they got settled down (the second half), the score was 28-6. The fact that the final score was 34-31 was due to Kaepernick.
Had the defense shown up in the first half, and not let plays like this happen, they probably win the game.
Flacco made Chris Culliver (the moron who jumped over Jones on the TD above) his personal bitch that game. The 49ers couldn't generate a pass rush, and they couldn't cover any of Baltimore's WR's.
With how the 49ers played, especially on defense, in the first half, the game had no business being that close at the end.