What Was The Worst Celtics Trade?

traded away an all-star for practically nothing. I was tempted to vote for the Perkins trade though, simply because it may have cost us a championship and was just not a very smart move

Billups for Anderson actually was fairly successful at the time of the trade and helped us remain competitive for several years. Plus, Billups bounced around a little while before finding his niche

The Joe Johnson trade was crappy, but we knew what we were doing when we did it (going for a championship, even if it wasn’t very likely). It was a prime example of what the Yankees and Red Sox have done a lot in recent years (except we didn’t have unlimited prospects). It would have been nice if Rogers stuck around longer.

I voted for the Raef trade. It was Ainge’s first huge move when he became gm and he dug us into a much deeper hole by taking on one of the worst contracts in the league (5 or 6 years left at 13 million a year) in a player that was known to have horrible knees. The other perks weren’t good enough to give up one of our two franchise players.

PAUL SILAS
October 20, 1976: As part of a 3-team trade, traded by the Boston Celtics to the Denver Nuggets; the Denver Nuggets traded Ralph Simpson to the Detroit Pistons; and the Detroit Pistons traded Curtis Rowe to the Boston Celtics.

we went from being champs to being chumps in 1 year. We stll had JO JO, havlicek, Scott, and Cowens but the wheels were falling off. We could have kept the starers largely intact, though Scott had suffered injuries he led the team in scoring. Rowe drove Cowens so nuts he quit and drove a cab

not to see the #7 over-all pick for Telfair.

But, John Y. Brown trading away three first round picks in 1979, for a past-his-prime McAdoo, makes him work for it!

One might consider the worst trade in Celtics history to be the swap of 1997 second round draft picks (used on Mark Sanford and Ben Pepper) so that Boston could hire Wallace away from Miami.

When Red acquired scorer Scott for 9 ppg bench youngster Wesphal, he had to give something to get something, and Red got a scorer who averaged 25 ppg thie three seasons previous to the trade. As noted previously, the Cs got a championship with Scott’s help, and his trade to the Lakers eventually got them Nate Archibald and Rick Robey and their title, and Danny Ainge and DJ and his two titles.

Scott was traded to the Lakers for Don Chaney, Kermit Washington, and a #1 pick, the 8th pick in 1978, Freeman Williams, who was part of the big Clippers trade that brought the Cs Tiny Archibald, Marvin Barnes,Billy Knight, 2nd round 1981 draft, pick Danny Ainge, and 1983 2nd round pick Rod Foster, who was later spun to the Suns with Robey for DJ. Robey himself was acquired for Billy Knight. a few years previously. That a lot of titles for the bounty that came back the Cs was in the Scott/Wesphal trade. Wesphal is still in search of a title.

If you look at all the championship contributors that eventually ended up in green from the Scott/Wesphal trade, that move by Red might be one of his best trades ever, despite the great individual success of Paul Wesphal, who almost got the Suns a title against his old team in their classic Finals in 1976, from which a certain blogger got his handle.

The Perkins trade sucked. Big mistake.

Unless of course, the draft pick they acquired becomes something good. Jeff Green is a bum.

Draft pick might be great, but I’ve got a feeling that even a few years down the line, the trade will still be judged on the impact the Perkins trade made on the team’s championship aspirations that season.

These would be the trading of Chauncey Billups and Joe Johnson. These guys were playing on a team that had no chance of winning. They were never given enough time to develop to the point where they could be good players for the C’s or could result in a better deal. The trade involving Joe Johnson for Rodney Rogers at least got us a decent ways in the playoffs that one year and that was exciting and was much a result of getting Rodgers.
Long term it was a bad trade.

The trade I hated the most, but understood, was the Perk trade. In the last post by Tugboat he/she comments on whether or not keeping Perk would have led to a championship last year. It probably wouldn’t have because we lost our bench from all the injuries and desparately needed a bench player. I think Jeff Green did a pretty decent job of that considering the situation he came into and when. But winning the championship depended on rested Pierce, Rondo, KG and Ray and because of all the injuries and moving our better bench players into starting or more important roles those guys just needed to play too much and too hard for too long. Plus, Rondo was really hurt going into the playoffs and West never did recover from all his injuries to be the best backup for him. Jeff Green gave us a chance of having an impact player come off the bench. It just didn’t work out. I still hate not having Perk on our team, but I don’t think Danny had a choice. I can also agree with those saying this was not a good trade, but at least Danny had the guts to do it and take the chance that Green (and Kristic) could help us. I don’t think it was done without a lot of thought and I think Danny hated doing it.

i voted for the joe johnson trade, but wahz makes a lot of sense re trading paul slas who went on to win another ring with seattle.the raef fiasco was bad but i always had a soft spot in my heart for raef.