Owner Real Deal Posted June 10, 2011 Owner Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 Does anyone remember the Clippers trading Marko Jaric to the Wolves back in 2005? Guess what they received? Minnesota's 2012 first round pick. At the time, it was a current first, but it was top 10 and lottery protected every year...until next year's draft. Talk about cashing in seven years later... :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heir Rose Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 Imagine if they hadn't traded for Mo Williams... They could have conceivably been looking at a quartet something along the lines of Kyrie Irving, Eric Gordon, Harrison Barnes, and Blake Griffin... Still have a great chance to form a trio unless Minnesota finally climbs their way out of the gutter. Even then, a late lotto pick in next year's draft could land you a would-be top 5-7 talent this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
?QuestionMark? Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 (edited) Similar to the Grizzlies trading a pick to Detroit for Otis Thorpe in 1997 that turned out to be the 2nd overall pick in 2003. Clips will probably Darko the pick too. Edited June 10, 2011 by ?QuestionMark? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 Imagine if they hadn't traded for Mo Williams... They could have conceivably been looking at a quartet something along the lines of Kyrie Irving, Eric Gordon, Harrison Barnes, and Blake Griffin... Still have a great chance to form a trio unless Minnesota finally climbs their way out of the gutter. Even then, a late lotto pick in next year's draft could land you a would-be top 5-7 talent this year. True but what they could get out of next year's stacked draft could potentially be better than Irving anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Check my Stats Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 Clips will probably Darko the pick too. Are you basing this off recent drafting? Really hope not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owner Real Deal Posted June 11, 2011 Author Owner Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 The Clips did throw away last year's pick on Aminu, who I doubt will be a good enough player to matter...but it was the 8th pick as well. They could've picked Ed Davis, but really, that's the only other player that may have been big for them later down the road (or Jordan Crawford, but he fell pretty far, past a lot of teams). Before the 2010 draft, the Clippers selected Griffin, Gordon and Jordan...all three starting for them, and all three productive players. One has the potential to be a superstar (Blake), and the other is a borderline all-star (Gordon). Among the other high picks they've had in the past, Shaun Livingston could've been pretty good had he not snapped his leg in half. Al Thornton was at the end of the lottery (14th), so I'll disregard him. Yaroslav Korolev was completely worthless, but he was around the 10th-12th pick as well. Kaman turned out to be an all-star center, and he was drafted by the Clips. Elton Brand was basically drafted by the Clippers (LA took Tyson Chandler, traded him for Brand that same night, who became an all-star). Odom was drafted by the Clippers. I think people remember Michael Olowokandi more than they do the other players, mainly because he was the #1 pick in the draft, the mega-bust (arguably the biggest in history, worse than Kwame, to be honest), and a negative impact like that will be felt and remembered far longer than any that is left by those that I have named (other than Blake, if he becomes a superstar). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Elton Brand was basically drafted by the Clippers (LA took Tyson Chandler, traded him for Brand that same night, who became an all-star).). No he wasn't, Brand played 2 seasons with the Bulls as a 20/10 player before being traded for Chandler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
?QuestionMark? Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Are you basing this off recent drafting? Really hope not. I'm basing it off Michael Olowokandi, Lancaster Gordon, Yaroslav Korolev, Danny Ferry, Bo Kimble, and Melvin Elys that they've drafted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owner Real Deal Posted June 12, 2011 Author Owner Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 No he wasn't, Brand played 2 seasons with the Bulls as a 20/10 player before being traded for Chandler.Whoa, nice catch. I usually don't [expletive] up that badly. Chandler being traded on draft night is what screwed me there. I was just arguing something about Ron Artest and his stint in Chicago a couple of weeks back, when he and Brand were drafted by the Bulls, and Chicago wanted Ron to facilitate in the triangle, post-Jordan. No idea why that slipped my mind (almost 28 years old, maybe). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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