Fool Me Twice: The Gordon Hayward Thread

[HornetJail]

I can't remember the terms of the trade, but didn't we trade for Biyombo and his 4 year 72 million dollar deal?

we traded Dwight on 1/$24M for Mozgov on 2/$34M (Dwight would take a $5M buyout from BRK right after, so we took on an extra season of Mozgov for roughly a $2M break in current salary.)

We then traded Mozgov for Biz on the same contract. EXCEPT, Mozgov's final year was removed from the Magic's books due to a career ending injury, which he was already suffering from during the brief time that we had him, so we could've just eaten those savings instead.

Mitch did net us a few 2nds from that whole situation, one of which was Cody Martin at #36, but overall, this is Mitch Kupchak fumbling basic cap management at its finest.

[HornetJail]

my worst contracts (2004 to present, in no order)

Batum

Tyrus Thomas

Miles Plumlee (willingly taking on his insane 4 year deal for no compensation sparked the whole Plumlee->Dwight->Mozgov->Biyombo chain that, along with Batum, doomed the Kemba era)

Ben Gordon (at least Rich Cho got very well-compensated for that one)

Diop

Hayward (at least he produced when he was on the floor, unless most of the rest of this list)

I'm tempted to put James Bouknight's rookie contract on this list, we paid that **** head more than Dell Curry made in a decade here

[fatlever]

i was only counting contracts that we signed. didn't include any contract we traded for. worst trades is a whole other world of hurt.

[Diop]

my worst contracts (2004 to present, in no order)

Diop

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