Luka-AD trade versus other bad trades in history

[tone wone]

The caliber of player Davis still is makes it hard to cross into woat for me. It's bad and the lack of logic behind the decision puts its close though.

But trading a war chest of unprotected 1st for old-as-hell KG and Pierce to pair with past-their-prime Deron Wiliams and Joe Johnson takes the cake.

Honorable mention for Westbrook to the Lakers. Took the best duo in the league and made them completely irrelevant for a year and a half. Could argued it ended the that era of Laker basketball. They never really recovered.

[ShotCreator]

What if Mavs won a championship in next 3 years?
What if Luka never plays better than last season due to ongoing conditioning issues?

Point is, it's way too early to judge this trade.

This ppl saying no trade comes close are crazy. All the ppl mentioning other trades where teams got a boatload of picks and saying Mavs didnt get same return also keep ignoring **** Ad a top 10 player Dpoy candidate...........I think they should have asked for a 1st or 2 but those other bad trades featured role players like Mikal Bridges or unproven prospects like Sga at the time. Comparing return w/o mentioning a proven commodity in Ad is bizarre. There is a high chance all those 1st round picks Nba fans jerk themselves over dont amount to Ads value these next few years

W/ all that said i dont see how this is worse than the Harden trade. Or even close. Okcheap chose keeping Kendrick Perkins the worst starting center prolly for years over paying Harden a few more million at least that next season who were arguing if he was a real star or not but was 6moy and clearly improving. Player they got back was Kevin **** Martin i remember pro Okc ppl were defending that then Harden in 1st week in Houston Harden was dropping 30pt near triple doubles already and everyone knew it was a Woat trade immediately. Everyone knew it was bad before Harden debuted in Houston besides some Okc fans coping but immediately we know just how bad it was

The Harden trade didn't kill morale of half a million lifelong OKC fans. OKC still had a title window, and actually did get future picks. Terrible trade but not a franchise killer. Kyrie is gone when his deal is up and AD has maybe two years left of his prime. Right on cue with Kyrie's contract ending. The decade is over for them. And for nothing.

It's the lowest reward, highest risk trade out of all the ones mentioned ITT.

Harden had to develop as a franchise centerpiece, for years to be as good as Luka is now. Harden at 25 was way behind him and he was traded at 22. And it's very possible his development would've been stunted in OKC. KD, WB and Harden all peak in heliocentric circumstances. That said, in terms of pure basketball, I won't say nothing is close. But again, this is entirely different. This caused the worst week in sports history for a city.



And don't forget, Dallas solved the Western Conference last year with a banged up Luka. Solved the whole conference, OKC included. They very well may have been on the way to another finals berth. Highest risk, lowest reward. At least the Clippers gutted their future for an objectively strong present at the time. Kawhi and PG with good role guys.