Malik or Brent.
Even if it wasnt a trade...
Losing Malik too, I remember getting teary-eyed when he was crying during his interview with WOAI at his house right after the trade. The man didnt just love the team but he also loved the city.
Derek Anderson after that one great year in 01', although I believe we lost him in a sign and trade deal.
Jermaine and drazen
Shaq and Eddie
hornets fans im surprised none of you said Kobe Bryant
Maybe not instantly better. But it did make them better.
Malik Rose was hard. Letting Derrick Anderson and Stephen Jackson walk was also pretty hard. Malik was just one of those guys that you wanted to retire as a Spurs player. I could never have imagined him with another team.
Ron Harper by a long shot. And although it doesn't quite fit the topic, leaving Dell Curry unprotected in the '88 expansion draft has always made me feel a little queasy.
how did the expansion draft work exactly? ive always wondered.
Pretty sure each team left two players on its active roster unprotected. Not sure if it was the 12-man or expanded rosters.
Scola
Jax
Was Curry on a bad contract or something? That's how the expansion draft has always worked from what I remember.
Curry was just coming off his second year, so it wasn't his contract. Only article I found directly pertaining to that draft said the Cavaliers had to choose between leaving Curry or Craig Ehlo unprotected.
Jax. Easiest answer of all time.
It never made them better. They had nowhere to go but down as Harris was doing amazing things for that team with his speed. Kidd couldn't match that intensity that Harris played with. It's physically impossible at Kidd's age.
Oh wait. He wasn't traded....
Yep. I had loved Brent since his Clipper and Sonic days, so when he came to SA, even as less of a high-flier and more of a perimeter player, I creamed my pants.
After always being in the middle of trade rumors that never worked out, I eventually assumed that he'd be here for good. I was pretty devastated that fateful day.
Ok so Kidd isn't as fast.... there are other ways to make a team better.
Harris is hurt again anyways. Like he always is. He is just another Josh Howard.
Here is what a Net fan said earlier in the week on another forum
"Most fans here in NJ shot their load last season when harris did his scoring thing. 99% of my fellows considered him THE franchise player for the last half of the season, other than a few who started to get annoyed by harris' 1v1 tendencies late in the season.
fast forward to this season... now 99% of fans want harris gone. no understanding of what a crappy team he plays for, no compensation for the fact that the nets have shot 27% from three for the season, severely limiting what harris is capable of doing in every possible way as a PG...
just average fans screaming for what they want without any thought of the rebuilding process, which has to happen when you're in our shoes.
so it's just sad, period... not because i like harris (still feels like we won the handkerchief while our buddy stole it right back), but because there's only so much embarrassment that a team can take.
kidd had to leave over age and salary issues, and we certainly got a great deal for him, but at the same time, we got smacked upside the head in that trade.
that is, nobody here fully understood what it meant to lose kidd. the numbers only sometimes showed it, but he was like some weird, indescribable basketball machine, always being in the right place, making the right decision."
So most netfans are in too. It was mostly an even trade. We got the player to make us better now, they got a decent young player and draft picks.
Ummm...after watching Jax's performance in CHA tonight, I might wanna change my answer...
Good thing we didnt trade Josh Howard for that cancer
Rodman and Sjax
Yes Harris is out of shape (for him). He obviously wants to be traded. What inspired him last season was to show the mavs what mistake they made. This year his inspiration is to get traded. Some players dog it when they are on a bad team. I'm pretty sure that would not be a problem if he gets on a good team again. Injuries will always be a concern but the risk is worth it imo. Especially when you have no chance of winning with the alternative (Kidd). We were 2 games from winning it with Harris and 11 games from winning with Kidd. Yes Howard has gotten softer but wasn't Kidd supposed to make everyone better? Dampier seems to be the only one who's gotten better and part of that is contract year as well. Marion is not as effective as in years past.
shut the up
Well thought out post there. When you have no reasons for your biased argument you resort to posts like these.
My selection brought in the player you chose above...
Michael Finley
I also hated with Jeff Hornacek was traded away, same with Dan Majerle, but neither were in the class of Finley.
I still remember watching the game when the very average Suns defeated the 95-96 Bulls in Finley's rookie season. Finley, a Chicago kid, worshiped Jordan, and that night had the game of his life defensively on Jordan, holding MJ to just 28 points on 9-22 shooting, while scoring 14 points himself. After fouling out late in the game, Jordan walked up to Finley, pulled Finley's head towards his and whispered something in Finley's ear.
The phrase uttered referenced back to a time when Finley was a high schooler in Chicago and was attending a Jordan Camp. He was the standout and Finley said Jordan told him, "See ya in the NBA one day" (or something like that).
On the night when Finley played MJ as good as one could, MJ told Finley, "Told ya!"
Or so said Finley, beaming, postgame.
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