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Originally Posted by tendulkar23
The Jabbar trade is considered one of the worst in league history. How can any team be happy with that return?
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Seriously?! They got Smith, a center who averaged 16 points, 11 boards, and 3 blocks that first season with the Bucks. He's still considered one of the best shot-blockers to ever play the game. And they got Winters, who had four straight seasons of 18+ points, was an all-star, played for nine seasons with the Bucks and had his jersey retired by them. They also retired Bridgeman's jersey, who played nine seasons with the Bucks, most of them average 14 points a game or better. Mayers was solid but unspectacular in four seasons with the Bucks. Unfortunately, they traded Smith to Cleveland after a couple seasons for two draft picks, which became Ernie Grunfeld and George Johnson, and that was where the Bucks really started to decline as a franchise.
Yeah, you'd rather have one of the the top players of all time than that group of guys, but it's not even close to the worst of all time.