NBA

Worst decision by any team in a decade


If a team wants to play well, in addition to the good performance of the players, whether the team makes the right decision is also very important. In the history of NBA, there are many teams because the management made wrong decisions, resulting in the team strength or decline, or failed to meet expectations, failed to achieve their goals, and some even paid a great price. Here are some of the NBA's worst decisions of the past decade.

No. 5: Lakers trade for Westbrook

After the failure of defending the title in 21 years, James said to the media that the team needs to have another carrier to launch the offense, this is not the first time James has said so, as early as the Cavaliers, James has expressed such a view, but the Cavaliers failed to find a carrier that satisfies James, and the Lakers in order to reduce the pressure on James, began to look for in the market. Westbrook entered the Lakers' vision.

But for Westbrook's arrival, there are many views within the Lakers, some management believes that Westbrook can not enhance the strength of the team, and Lakers owner Jeanie Buss believes that Westbrook can, James is not opposed to Westbrook to join.

In this way, the Lakers traded Westbrook for Kuzma and Popplus in the first round.

After Westbrook joined the Lakers, is also very happy, the Lakers have expressed a welcome, but after playing dozens of games, people found that Westbrook and the Lakers are not very suitable, the chemistry is very poor, but because the Lakers are spent a lot of money to do the deal, the Lakers should not send Westbrook away, chose to fire Vogel, put on Ham.

But the effect was still very poor, the Lakers started with the 11th place in the West, the Lakers were frustrated, began to make trades to change the team, and finally replaced Westbrook before the trade deadline, although the Lakers eventually qualified for the Western Conference finals, but delayed a year and a half, consumed James's precious time, and wasted Davis's prime years. The bad decision cost the Lakers a lot.

No. 4: The 76ers traded for Butler

Butler played in the Bulls, after the transfer to the Timberwolves, Butler became the spiritual leader of the team, bringing a different spirit to the Timberwolves, the 76ers also took a look at Butler's fighting spirit and ability, the Butler trade came, hoping that he can bring great energy to the team, help young Embiid grow into a superstar, with the team's expectations, Butler played well on the court and contributed great performances in key games in the playoffs, but when it came to renewing the contract, the two sides fell apart.

When Butler's contract expired, the 76ers changed the general manager, the new general manager Brand did not give Butler a big contract, but gave Harris, who was not very brilliant in the key game, a five-year contract of 170 million US dollars, which made Butler very dissatisfied, felt his value was undervalued, chose to leave, and finally, Butler first signed and then changed, went to the Heat. Led the Heat two finals, while the 76ers are trapped in the East, failed to get on the stage of the finals, after the incident, a reporter broke the news that the 76ers gave up Butler because Simmons had conflict with Butler, the 76ers chose to leave Simmons, no matter what the reason, the 76ers sent away Butler this decision is wrong.

No. 3: The Bucks passed on Embiid

Bucks before the rise of Giannis Antetokole, the results are bad, got a lot of draft rights, 14 years in the draft, the Bucks have the second pick, and this year's draft is also a lot of talent, such as Embiid, he is this year to participate in the draft, with the current vision, the Bucks will 100 percent choose Embiid, but at that time, the Bucks are more optimistic about another big man, Jabari Parker, he played very well in college, some fame, and Embiid, played very well in college, in the ranking, was once the first center position, perhaps the Bucks think that Embiid has injury risks, may be due to injury water drop, so they selected Jabari Parker.

After Embiid entered the NBA, it is true that he missed a lot of games due to injury, but Jabari Parker's injuries are also a lot, Jabari Parker's contribution performance is far less than Embiid, when Jabari Parker gradually withdrew from the NBA because of injury, Embiid overcame the injury, the strength increased, and became the MVP.

This makes people think that the Bucks had chosen Jabari Parker is a wrong decision, if the choice is Embiid, the bucks may have been two crowns, but there is no regret in the world, people can not predict the future, the bucks can only silently for their original wrong people and feel sad.

Second: The Nets Soha trade for Pierce Garnett

Before Durant joined the Nets, there was a period of time that people were concerned about, and the time was not long ago, that is, ten years ago, when, under the leadership of Delon and Big Lo, the Nets' performance was still very good, which made the Nets have the idea of striving for better results, which requires the formation of a stronger lineup, the Nets decided to achieve this goal by trading. They looked at Garnett and Pierce, who won the title in the Celtics, and they were strong when they won the title in 2008, but in 13, the strength of the two has declined a lot, despite this, the Nets decided to trade.

In order to make this deal, the Nets are paying a lot of draft rights, almost the team's main draft rights in the next few years are sent away, there are a lot of players, after the deal is made, many people think that the Celtics earn, the nets lose, but if the Nets can achieve excellent results, it is not a loss.

But the Nets have also achieved very bad results, after Delon was injured, Garnett, Pierce can not afford to support the team, although the Nets broke into the playoffs, but was defeated by the heat, hollow out the bottom in exchange for this result, the Nets trade Garnett Pierce two old stars of the decision is really very wrong.

First: The Lone Ranger missed Antetokounmpo

13 years of the draft conference, the word mother brother was selected by the Bucks with the 15th draft pick, under the training of the Bucks, Antetokounmpo became the league star, MVP, for the Bucks brought the championship, was elected FMVP, and the Lone Ranger had the opportunity to select Antetokounmpo, it can even be said that the initiative is in the hands of the Lone Ranger.

Because the Mavericks originally had the 13th pick, the Bucks used the 15th pick to pick Giannis Antetokounmpo, if the Mavericks had chosen Giannis Antetokounmpo, then we would have a chance to see Giannis Antetokounmpo and Doncic play together.

At the time of the draft, the general manager of the Lone Ranger is hoping to choose Antetokounmpo, he can complete all the operations, and ensure that he can tap the potential of Antetokounmpo, but the Lone Ranger boss Cuban does not think that the selection of Antetokounmpo is a good choice, because Howard may join the Lone Ranger, Cuban is very like Howard, and from the strength of the point of view, At that time, Howard was better than Antetokounmpo, and it took a lot of effort to develop Antetokounmpo, and Cuban didn't have a lot of confidence that Antetokounmpo could become a talent.

In the boss's decision, the Lone Ranger general manager gave up the selection of Giannis Antetokounmpo, looking back, Cuban's decision is undoubtedly wrong, he did not get Howard, did not get Giannis Antetokounmpo.


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