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Donovan Mitchell and the great draft day robbery.

Rubashov

Rubashov

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It's looking like the Utah\Denver deal could turn out to be one of the better draft day rip offs in NBA history so I wanted to start a thread with other great draft day rip offs and other one sided trades in general.

I'll kick it off with the baffling decision by the Seattle Sonics to trade Scottie Pippen for Olden Polynice.

Polynice scored about 1300 points in 3 and a bit seasons for the Sonics, Pippen was Pippen.
 
The jazz aren't blameless in this. They traded the #1 that turned out to be Magic Johnson

In 1976 the New Orleans Jazz signed Gail Goodrich away from the Lakers. League rules at the time required one team to compensate another for signing away veteran players. As compensation, the Jazz and the Lakers traded a handful of picks, including the New Orleans’ first-round pick in 1979.

Also we traded Wilkins for money I believe. He was the third pick I believe.


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Easily the biggest fleecing in NBA history is The Celtics swapping picks with The Golden State Warriors and getting Robert Parish at # 8. The Warriors ended up with Joe Barry Carroll, who was unaffectionately nicknamed by GSW fans as "Joe Barely Cares"

Oh yeah, The Warriors also gave Boston a future first that turned out to be Kevin McHale.

I'm going to guess that was the only time in NBA history a team got two cornerstone players for multiple championships and future HOF'ers for one draft pick.
 
Thee jazz fan said:
The jazz aren't blameless in this. They traded the #1 that turned out to be Magic Johnson

In 1976 the New Orleans Jazz signed Gail Goodrich away from the Lakers. League rules at the time required one team to compensate another for signing away veteran players. As compensation, the Jazz and the Lakers traded a handful of picks, including the New Orleans’ first-round pick in 1979.

Also we traded Wilkins for money I believe. He was the third pick I believe.


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Yeah the Wilkins one was a whopper I'd forgotten about that, I didn't know about the Magic.
 
Wilkins wasn't a draft day trade - The Jazz didn't trade him until right before training camp because (in part) they were afraid he wasn't going to show up.

Do any old timers know - did Wilkins play in the summer league for Utah? Probably not.

Wilkins says to this day he would have played for the Jazz but who knows for sure

Would have been nice though.
 
candrew said:
I'm going to guess that was the only time in NBA history a team got two cornerstone players for multiple championships and future HOF'ers for one draft pick.
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I don't post a lot but I think about this stuff a lot. As much Nuggets appear to be losers in this one how about other 12 picks that passed on Mitchell... They should feel just as bad (except for maybe Tatum pick. He'll also be pretty good).

And speaking of players and misses, when we drafted Burk at 9 Giannis went 15. When we drafted Burks at 12 Kwami went 15. That's where we end up on the wrong side of the stuff.
 
bombastic said:
And speaking of players and misses, when we drafted Burk at 9 Giannis went 15. When we drafted Burks at 12 Kwami went 15. That's where we end up on the wrong side of the stuff.
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I think both picks might have been influenced in part by the fact that both Giannis and Kawhi were listed as SF, imagine the impact on Haywood's fragile ego if the Jazz were picking guys playing his position.
 
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