Gilbert Arenas contract voted worst ever!

[FreeBalling]

Had Gil not hurt himself again in rehab this conversation most likely would not have taken place.


Bullets/Wizards in their prime, who would you want taking the last shot for the win? For me it's Gilbert without question.

Arenas earned the contract, however, his injury created a fall from grace that is still felt today.




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[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

What was funny was the number of people on this board who absolutely HATED the trade.

It was a stunning heist. How could anyone have been against it. What makes it more incredible is that EVERYONE knew our absolute most pressing priority was getting rid of Gil ASAP. He simply could not be here with Wall. To this day, the only explanation for how we were able to pull that off is that Otis Smith was even more incompetent than Ernie. Deal by deal, Smith killed the Golden Goose with Dwight, who LOVED Orlando and the people of Orlando loved him. He massively overpayed Jameer Nelson and JJ Redick and whichever crappy Richardson they had at the time plus he picked up Hedo Turkoglu's awful contract. Just a whole lot of long term 10-12 million per year crap deals.

Trading for Gil should have been grounds for firing Smith on the spot. One of many fireable offenses. Orlando wised up soon after and fired Smith and then made out fairly well in the Dwight trade itself. And I guess they've drafted well too. If not for that, they could be situated in the cellar for years because of Smith's spectacular mismanagement.

Another deal that was pretty stunning in 2010-2011 but hasn't ended nearly as well for EG was trading Kirk Hinrich and Hilton Armstrong for Mike Bibby (immediately bought out), Mo Evans, Jordan Crawford, and the pick that became Chris Singleton. That was pretty much a heist too except we subsequently blew all of the assets we got back in return. Who knows what we did with the cap space we gained from the deal, and Crawford and Singleton were busts. Imagine if we'd gotten something like Kenneth Faried from that though... Kenneth Faried for essentially nothing. Magic Beans.

Cheers to Otis Smith!

Nice post, steve! Orlando must have had some karma due, because they certainly did make out well in the Dwight Howard trade. Never thought this, but yeah, you're right. Ernie's better than Otis Smith was as GM.

EG is also a better GM than good old Wes Unseld. I loved Wes the player. I even liked Wes the coach, because his teams played very hard no matter how little talent they had. But Wes/Abe can hardly be forgiven for the Chris Webber deal.

Ernie Grunfeld never would have made THAT deal.

[willbcocks]

Gilbert Arenas -- My NBA Contract's the Worst In History?? Yeah, I Can See That

http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_35nhyftf/

Too bad nobody warned the Wizards before the deal was signed.

Trading Gilbert for Rashard Lewis (and one less year) was probably the best Wizards deal, ever. I think it tops when Michael Jordan managed to move Juwan Howard, who at the time made about the same max deal as Kevin Garnett.

So, if I criticize EG/Abe for signing Gil despite signs pointing to the risk; I have to give EG credit for trading Gilbert to his friend, the former Orlando GM.

Arenas was very shrewd to opt out and get paid like he did when he did. He secured a boat load of cheddar. I know he's a generous man. Probably helping people behind the scenes to this day. Grotto sold or not, bad contract didn't go to the worst guy IMO.

What was funny was the number of people on this board who absolutely HATED the trade.

Half of my 3000 posts probably came from arguing that we needed to trade Arenas. It feels good to be so right....










The other half of my posts were saying we should give Kwame more time...