<v Speaker 1>Wednesday, July eight, twenty twenty six, you are listening to

<v Speaker 1>the Daily Dose Sports podcast and I am your host,

<v Speaker 1>Clinton Daily, coming to you from the my High City

<v Speaker 1>here in Denver, Colorado, and we are back for another

<v Speaker 1>week of talking sports with a dose of common sense. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Happy Wednesday to you. I hope your week is going well.

<v Speaker 1>I hope you, your family, your friends, everyone in your

<v Speaker 1>world is staying strong and healthy right now. And I

<v Speaker 1>hope you had a safe and happy Fourth of July

<v Speaker 1>weekend and that you are back to work this week

<v Speaker 1>with all ten fingers and all ten toes intact. And

<v Speaker 1>we are now down to what the elite eight in

<v Speaker 1>the twenty twenty six World Cup tournament? Is it the

<v Speaker 1>elite eight? What is it? Quarters? Rob? Figure Rob? What

<v Speaker 1>is it quarters? Okay, he says quarters. We are now

<v Speaker 1>down to the quarterfinal in the twenty twenty six World

<v Speaker 1>Cup tournament. Like I said, I don't think they call

<v Speaker 1>it the elite eight over there. Tomorrow on Thursday, we

<v Speaker 1>get a decent matchup as France, who has kind of

<v Speaker 1>looked like maybe they might be the best team in

<v Speaker 1>this tournament. Hey, Killian and Boppi might be the best

<v Speaker 1>scorer in the world right now. They will be squaring

<v Speaker 1>off against Morocco, who hasn't looked quite as strong, but

<v Speaker 1>they are capable of scoring goals at times. Don't forget

<v Speaker 1>they did do some things against Brazil earlier in the tournament.

<v Speaker 1>But France has not really been pressed yet. I want

<v Speaker 1>to see what they do when they're actually pressured. There's

<v Speaker 1>no way Morocco could bother them, right, I think France

<v Speaker 1>will advance to the Final four. Is it the final four,

<v Speaker 1>Big Rob? No, it's the semi finals. Is that what

<v Speaker 1>we call I don't know whatever. On Friday, we get

<v Speaker 1>a game that I am looking forward to as Spain,

<v Speaker 1>who scraped out a win over Portugal and sent Christiano

<v Speaker 1>Ronaldo home for good, is going to be facing a

<v Speaker 1>very dangerous Belgium team that defeated the United States on

<v Speaker 1>Monday Night, and yes, that was disappointing. The US went

<v Speaker 1>out in this version of Monday Night football and their

<v Speaker 1>defense looked, I don't know, like the Dallas Cowboys, and

<v Speaker 1>their goaltender looked like I don't know, Andy Dalton. But

<v Speaker 1>that's okay. No one expected us to get this far,

<v Speaker 1>except for Big Rob, who predicted exactly how far we

<v Speaker 1>would get a few weeks ago, and he nailed it.

<v Speaker 1>I think Spain's defense can be a problem here, and

<v Speaker 1>I think Belgium may have expended a little too much

<v Speaker 1>energy in beating a US team that was clearly not

<v Speaker 1>ready for prime time just yet probably got a little

<v Speaker 1>more excited than the shift. I'm going to take Spain

<v Speaker 1>to grind out a close win here on Saturday afternoon

<v Speaker 1>we get the game. I'm looking forward to the most

<v Speaker 1>in this round of eight as England, who pulled off

<v Speaker 1>maybe the most impressive win of the turn on Sunday

<v Speaker 1>when they went to Mexico City and beat Mexico in

<v Speaker 1>front of a stadium pack full of crazy fans, and

<v Speaker 1>they did it for most of the second half while

<v Speaker 1>playing shorthanded. Hey, Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham have been

<v Speaker 1>really impressive. Goalie Jordan Pickford was amazing in the win

<v Speaker 1>over Mexico. And then they will be facing Norway and

<v Speaker 1>Norway had to beat a way more skilled Brazil team

<v Speaker 1>to get here. But I mean Norway just outsizes and

<v Speaker 1>out physicals you. Early. Holland is just bigger and stronger

<v Speaker 1>than everyone, and he just blasts goals past people and

<v Speaker 1>throws people around like rag dolls. There's no way Norway

<v Speaker 1>can do it again, right, I'll pick England here, but

<v Speaker 1>I'll be honest, I'm cheering for Norway. Finally, on Saturday night,

<v Speaker 1>we will get Argentina, who had to come back from

<v Speaker 1>being down two to Egypt near the eightieth minute. But

<v Speaker 1>then Lionel Messi provides an assist and a goal and

<v Speaker 1>suddenly Argentina comes back. They hit a game winner during

<v Speaker 1>additional time. Argentina is that defending champion and they don't

<v Speaker 1>seem to want to go away. Also, I know I've

<v Speaker 1>heard a few people saying this game was fixed, and

<v Speaker 1>most of them were obviously Egyptian fans. Maybe I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>Trevor Noola, but here's a question I have. Was it

<v Speaker 1>fixed when it was two nothing? Or did they just

<v Speaker 1>dial up the fix late, Because if you're going to

<v Speaker 1>fix it, you can't not fix it for eighty minutes

<v Speaker 1>and then be like, oh, hey they're coming back, let's

<v Speaker 1>fix it. That doesn't really work that way, does it.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Argentina moves on and they will be

<v Speaker 1>facing Switzerland, who had to get past a pesky Columbia

<v Speaker 1>team by way of penalty kicks. Hey, Switzerland's defense was impressive.

<v Speaker 1>I am going to pick Argentina to keep winning, and

<v Speaker 1>I'll pick them to win here over Switzerland until proven otherwise,

<v Speaker 1>I'll have to stick with Argentina. If things went according

<v Speaker 1>to my picks, we would have France versus Spain and

<v Speaker 1>then England versus Argentina in the final four or the

<v Speaker 1>semi finals, as they say. But honestly, I'd be glad

<v Speaker 1>to be wrong about any of these picks. Hey, I

<v Speaker 1>realize there are those, especially here in the States, that

<v Speaker 1>will never watch soccer no matter what. This tournament has

<v Speaker 1>been highly entertaining. I've been entertained NonStop. I've been watching NonStop,

<v Speaker 1>and there have been like I don't know, four to

<v Speaker 1>five games that have been instant classics. This tournament has

<v Speaker 1>been really fun. Whether you like soccer or not, it

<v Speaker 1>has been entertaining. Hey, today, on the dose, we are

<v Speaker 1>now just past the halfway mark in Major League Baseball,

<v Speaker 1>and we're actually going to be releasing our very first

<v Speaker 1>MLB Power rankings of the season so far, because, let's

<v Speaker 1>face it, what happens in Major League Baseball before July fourth,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it kind of doesn't really matter. Every year

<v Speaker 1>we see some surprising team that starts off the regular

<v Speaker 1>season really hot, but then they fade. Well, now we've

<v Speaker 1>given it enough time for those weird little blips to

<v Speaker 1>take care of themselves. So who are the actual top

<v Speaker 1>teams this year in Major League Baseball? We're going to

<v Speaker 1>give you our top five. We will also have a

<v Speaker 1>daily dose top five for you today. We saw a

<v Speaker 1>big trade take place in the NBA last weekend. It

<v Speaker 1>was a little odd our daily dose top five. We'll

<v Speaker 1>take a look at some other odd trades if you will.

<v Speaker 1>Going to get to that in just a few minutes,

<v Speaker 1>But first let's jump into that trade that took place

<v Speaker 1>in the NBA because Jalen Brown has a new home,

<v Speaker 1>as the Boston Celtics agreed to send the former NBA

<v Speaker 1>Finals MVP to the Philadelphia seventy six Ers in a

<v Speaker 1>huge trade. The Sixers are sending Paul George two first

<v Speaker 1>round picks in twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty one,

<v Speaker 1>and then two second round selections in twenty eight and

<v Speaker 1>twenty thirty to Boston to finish up that deal. Now,

<v Speaker 1>Brown's future in Boston had been in question over the

<v Speaker 1>last few weeks. Because they say the Celtics were attempting

<v Speaker 1>to trade him plus a few picks to the Milwaukee

<v Speaker 1>Bucks for Giannis Anna de Campo, but Milwaukee instead agreed

<v Speaker 1>to a trade with Miami. Now, Brown's gonna turn thirty

<v Speaker 1>this October and he leaves Boston as a five time

<v Speaker 1>All Star, as well as the twenty twenty four Eastern

<v Speaker 1>Conference Finals and NBA Finals MVP as he helped the

<v Speaker 1>Celtics win their eighteenth title. He's actually coming off the

<v Speaker 1>best season of his career. He finished sixth in MVP

<v Speaker 1>voting this past year. He was a second team All

<v Speaker 1>NBA selection. He led the Celtics to a fifty six

<v Speaker 1>win season. Jaylen Brown this past year averaged twenty eight

<v Speaker 1>point seven points, six point nine rebounds, and five assists

<v Speaker 1>per game. I mean, those are all career highs. This

<v Speaker 1>kid's won the top two way forwards in the league,

<v Speaker 1>and he had partnered with his teammate Jason Tatum, and

<v Speaker 1>they had made Boston a contender for like the past

<v Speaker 1>six seven, eight years since being taken out of col

<v Speaker 1>back in twenty sixteen. His one hundred and forty two

<v Speaker 1>playoff games since entering the NBA are the most of

<v Speaker 1>any player over that span. But now he is gone.

<v Speaker 1>He is in Philly where he will join Joel Embiid,

<v Speaker 1>Tyrese Maxi, vj Edgecombe and a seventy six ers team

<v Speaker 1>that just knocked Boston out of the playoffs in the

<v Speaker 1>opening round this past season. And I know that they

<v Speaker 1>say Jalen Brown never requested a trade, but why else

<v Speaker 1>would you make this dumb deal? So here's what I'm assuming,

<v Speaker 1>here's my guess. My guess is that Boston felt this

<v Speaker 1>bridge had been burnt to the ground when they were

<v Speaker 1>shopping Jalen Brown for in that y honest deal, and

<v Speaker 1>then with that bridge as burned as it was, they

<v Speaker 1>were like, well, we don't want to pay him now

<v Speaker 1>he's mad at us. Now there's her feelings. Oh and

<v Speaker 1>by the way, he's owed like fifty six million bucks.

<v Speaker 1>We're not giving him that, you know what, Let's just

<v Speaker 1>send him somewhere else. And you might be sitting there

<v Speaker 1>and you might be thinking, Hey, this deal really isn't

<v Speaker 1>that bad for Boston, because I mean, Boston did get

<v Speaker 1>Paul George that is at least something okay. But here's

<v Speaker 1>a quick test that I want you to take right now.

<v Speaker 1>You can take this at home, in your car wherever

<v Speaker 1>you are. Quick, name one person who likes Paul George

<v Speaker 1>whose name isn't Paul George. Yeah, you see what I'm

<v Speaker 1>saying here. This isn't a great deal for the Celtics.

<v Speaker 1>Gotta be honest, But Boston just did not too long

<v Speaker 1>ago with Mooki Betts. The city of Boston is kind

<v Speaker 1>of getting fleeced in a lot of deals lately. One

<v Speaker 1>more bit of NBA offseason news to talk about, and

<v Speaker 1>that is, of course, that Lebron James notified the Los

<v Speaker 1>Angeles Lakers last week that he is going to take

<v Speaker 1>his toys and go somewhere else to play with him.

<v Speaker 1>And the rumors have just been flying around. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>Lebron is going to go to Golden State. He wants

<v Speaker 1>to play the staff. Lebron is going to go back

<v Speaker 1>to Cleveland to finish his career at home. Lebron is

<v Speaker 1>going to go back to Miami to join Jannis and

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, make like an AARP team. Lebron is

<v Speaker 1>going to come to Denver. He wants to play with

<v Speaker 1>Nikola Jokic. Lebron is staying in Los Angeles, but he's

<v Speaker 1>gonna go join the Clippers. Lebron is going to Minnesota.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know he wants to help LaMelo Ball win

<v Speaker 1>a title. I have no idea. We've heard them all.

<v Speaker 1>But let me lie about a theory because I think

<v Speaker 1>I know where Lebron's going. I think I know what

<v Speaker 1>Lebron is going to do. Keep in mind, Lebron James

<v Speaker 1>is now forty one years old. He will turn forty

<v Speaker 1>two this December. But let's be honest. We all know

<v Speaker 1>how Lebron is. We know his personality. We know like

<v Speaker 1>he's not going to quietly retire and just sneak away

<v Speaker 1>from the game. He isn't just going to announce what

<v Speaker 1>team he's going to go to and sign with him

<v Speaker 1>quickly and quietly. Because Lebron, well, he likes himself some Lebron.

<v Speaker 1>He wants all the flowers, he wants all the recognition,

<v Speaker 1>he wants all the parades. He wants to host a

<v Speaker 1>big night of Where am I going? We all remember,

<v Speaker 1>I'm taking my talents to South Beach. Well, right now

<v Speaker 1>the sports media world is trying to figure out where

<v Speaker 1>in the world is Lebron Jay going. But hear me out,

<v Speaker 1>what if Lebron doesn't pick a team. What if he

<v Speaker 1>doesn't name a team. What if he just keeps the

<v Speaker 1>speculation going. Well, he watches the season playoff from I

<v Speaker 1>don't know, say, the golf course, and he just sits

<v Speaker 1>out and he just waits and he gauges which team

<v Speaker 1>has the best chance to win a title. And then

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, say, after the All Star Game in February,

<v Speaker 1>he's like, well, who's up front? Because we know he

<v Speaker 1>likes to run. I'm not saying he's a front runner. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>maybe i am, but he saves the mileage on his body,

<v Speaker 1>and then he hand picks a team in February that

<v Speaker 1>he thinks can win it all. LUs he keeps all

<v Speaker 1>the attention on him all this time. Now, be honest,

<v Speaker 1>doesn't that sound like the most Lebron thing ever? So

<v Speaker 1>the twenty twenty six Major League Baseball season is now

<v Speaker 1>just past the halfway point, and do you realize next

<v Speaker 1>Monday Night will already be the twenty twenty six and

<v Speaker 1>they'll be All Star Game. But hey, we know the

<v Speaker 1>Major League Baseball season is nothing if not long. Well,

<v Speaker 1>we have now kind of let the dust settle on

<v Speaker 1>the season, and a few teams that started hot have

<v Speaker 1>kind of come back to earth, and a few of

<v Speaker 1>the more talented teams that started slow have now started

<v Speaker 1>to hit their stride. Okay, so who are the top

<v Speaker 1>five teams in Major League Baseball right now? Here are

<v Speaker 1>our daily dose power rankings as of right now, going

<v Speaker 1>into the All Star weekend. Let's start off with the

<v Speaker 1>number five team, you know, the National League East. It

<v Speaker 1>looks like it's going to be a highly competitive division

<v Speaker 1>all season. And while our number five team does have

<v Speaker 1>a few concerning holes that need to be addressed. Heye,

<v Speaker 1>they still have some major shrinks. Yes, we know right

<v Speaker 1>field is a problem. Yes, their bullpen can be concerning

<v Speaker 1>at times. And I fully expect this team to try

<v Speaker 1>to be highly active at the trade deadline and see

<v Speaker 1>if they can't shore up a few of those weaknesses.

<v Speaker 1>Having said that, remember that the Philadelphia Phillies started this

<v Speaker 1>season nine and nineteen. They fired manager Rob Thompson, they

<v Speaker 1>replaced him with Don Mattingly, and they are suddenly red hot. Now,

<v Speaker 1>obviously this batting lineup does still have some serious punch.

<v Speaker 1>You've got Bryce Harper, You've got Brandon marsh You've got

<v Speaker 1>Trey Turner and if you sleep on that lineup, no,

<v Speaker 1>they're gonna take you out of the park a few times. Now,

<v Speaker 1>could I see the Phillies slip a bit and drop

<v Speaker 1>in the standings at literally any second shirt, But I

<v Speaker 1>could also see them fortify that roster a little bit,

<v Speaker 1>fix a few holes, and stay in the hunt. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>I think the pressure is on that front office in Philly.

<v Speaker 1>But I've got the Philadelphia Philly at number five. We

<v Speaker 1>go next to our number four team, and we're going

<v Speaker 1>to stay in that National League East because I would

<v Speaker 1>have had this team at maybe I don't know, two

<v Speaker 1>or three just a few weeks ago. But now they've

<v Speaker 1>hit a bit of a cool stretch. Hey, the Atlanta

<v Speaker 1>Braves went from having one of the most productive lineups

<v Speaker 1>in the first two months of the season to having

<v Speaker 1>like one of the worst lineups for the month of June.

<v Speaker 1>The Braves actually ranked last in the majors in runs,

<v Speaker 1>home runs, batting average, on base percentage, and slugging percentage

<v Speaker 1>in June. Austin Riley had to be dropped to the

<v Speaker 1>bottom third of the lineup. And now Robert Scorz has

<v Speaker 1>banged up a little well. That creates a problem for

<v Speaker 1>that front office. Like I said before the trade deadline,

<v Speaker 1>we know a lot of teams are going to be

<v Speaker 1>scrambling trying to pick someone up. Should the Braves try

<v Speaker 1>to replace these struggling players. I mean, they're expensive, that

<v Speaker 1>starting pitching lineup is a major concern. But if the

<v Speaker 1>Braves can get healthy, if they could maybe pick up

<v Speaker 1>a pitcher, I still think Atlanta is going to be

<v Speaker 1>a problem. I've got the Atlanta Braves at number four,

<v Speaker 1>but number three. You know, they seem to do this

<v Speaker 1>every few years, despite the fact that they rarely ever

<v Speaker 1>spend much money. But once again, the Tampa Bay Rays,

<v Speaker 1>they seem to be one of the top teams in

<v Speaker 1>Major League Baseball, And honestly, right now, they look up

<v Speaker 1>the best team in the American League and it really

<v Speaker 1>doesn't look that close. Granted, this year, the AL isn't

<v Speaker 1>exactly looking all that dominant just yet, but the Rays

<v Speaker 1>seemed to be the class of that league. And like

<v Speaker 1>I said, once again, Tampa isn't really spending all that

<v Speaker 1>much money. Do you realize that the Tampa Bay Rays

<v Speaker 1>one hundred and two million dollar payroll ranks them twenty

<v Speaker 1>third in the league, So they're not spending much money,

<v Speaker 1>but as usual, they're spending it wisely because they've done

<v Speaker 1>their homework and they're getting the most bang for their buck.

<v Speaker 1>Junior Camanaro has put this team on his back over

<v Speaker 1>the past few weeks. Honestly, he should probably be getting

<v Speaker 1>some MVP chatter right now based on what he's doing.

<v Speaker 1>The Rays are on top of the American League East

<v Speaker 1>right now, and while I would like to see a

<v Speaker 1>little more production out of that bullpen, Tampa Bay again

<v Speaker 1>looks pretty legit. I'm gonna put them at number three,

<v Speaker 1>but I would put him at number one in that

<v Speaker 1>American league. Okay, so let's move to our number two team.

<v Speaker 1>And our number two team is a team that I

<v Speaker 1>always love so much during the regular season, and then

<v Speaker 1>I like them way less when we get to the playoffs.

<v Speaker 1>But once again, the Milwaukee Brewers have been very dominant

<v Speaker 1>so far and once again are having a lot of success.

<v Speaker 1>Why It's obvious because of their pitching. It seems like

<v Speaker 1>it's always their pitching. Their starters are phenomenal, the bullpen

<v Speaker 1>is at least solid, the defense is outstanding, and at

<v Speaker 1>least so far, the Brewers are getting solid play at

<v Speaker 1>the plate. Now I know Brandon Woodruff is going to

<v Speaker 1>be on the shelf for a little while with a

<v Speaker 1>shoulder injury. We'll see how long that ends up being.

<v Speaker 1>But I think Milwaukee can overcome that. But I think

<v Speaker 1>Milwaukee can overcome that. The National in Central looks like

<v Speaker 1>it's going to be competitive all year. So I don't

<v Speaker 1>think we're going to have a case where Milwaukee has

<v Speaker 1>such a big lead they can just rest and coast. No,

<v Speaker 1>I think they're going to be pressed pretty much all season. Now.

<v Speaker 1>I also know once they hit the postseason it seems

<v Speaker 1>like Milwaukee always slips up. But think about this for

<v Speaker 1>one second. What if, just if the Milwaukee Brewers were

<v Speaker 1>able to make a trade and add I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>say Detroit Tiger's pitcher Tek School to this lineup that

<v Speaker 1>is already really really impressive. Hey, it could happen. He

<v Speaker 1>could be going somewhere, He could be going to any

<v Speaker 1>of these top five teams. But if he goes to Milwaukee,

<v Speaker 1>you're going to have a tough time generating runs off

<v Speaker 1>of this lineup. I've got the Milwaukee Brewers at number

<v Speaker 1>two in all of Major League Baseball. We'll see if

<v Speaker 1>they can stay there. And of course, at number one,

<v Speaker 1>we have the Los Angeles Dodgers again. Yes, they are

<v Speaker 1>spending a ton of money, Yes they are going to

<v Speaker 1>be some of the reason that after this season baseball

<v Speaker 1>could be going away for the foreseeable future. But once again,

<v Speaker 1>the Dodgers are just stacked, and they are stacked everywhere.

<v Speaker 1>You know, it's crazy. The Dodgers went just eighteen and

<v Speaker 1>nine in the month of June. That's actually underwhelming for them.

<v Speaker 1>The problem for the rest of the league is it

<v Speaker 1>just doesn't matter. There is just too much organizational depth

<v Speaker 1>to keep this team down for very long. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>manager Dave Roberts is bizarrely probably underrated. We kind of

<v Speaker 1>forget about him, but hey, a lot of teams have talent.

<v Speaker 1>He's doing something with it. Tommy Edmond is now back

<v Speaker 1>and playing well. Lookie Betts is playing phenomenal starting pitching,

<v Speaker 1>check bullpen, good enough, defense solid, and then the lineup well,

<v Speaker 1>it looks like an all Star team. So here we

<v Speaker 1>are again, despite some ups and downs at the player level,

<v Speaker 1>with the Dodgers still owning baseball's best record, they are

<v Speaker 1>on their way to a top overall seed in the postseason,

<v Speaker 1>where they will in all probability win a third straight title.

<v Speaker 1>And again, what if the Dodgers were to add Terry Schooble.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, then everyone is just playing per second, as

<v Speaker 1>if they aren't playing for second already. And then after

<v Speaker 1>this season, we know baseball might be done for a while,

<v Speaker 1>a long while. Let's just say that I don't have

<v Speaker 1>to worry about working for a while along while, but

<v Speaker 1>we will keep an eye on how Major League Baseball

<v Speaker 1>continues to shape up as we go into the second

<v Speaker 1>half of our summer. Now, as we do so many

<v Speaker 1>weeks here through the Dally dose, we need to get

<v Speaker 1>over to our daily dose top five. You know, we

<v Speaker 1>discussed earlier the Boston Celtics trading Jalen Brown to Philadelphia

<v Speaker 1>for what certainly seems like I don't know, a handful

<v Speaker 1>of magic beans compared to what they could have gotten.

<v Speaker 1>And you know, it isn't the first time we have

<v Speaker 1>seen a trade in the NBA that left us all

<v Speaker 1>kind of scratching our heads. Whether it is a team

<v Speaker 1>in trouble, a player that just demands to be out,

<v Speaker 1>or simply a front office that thinks they're smarter than

<v Speaker 1>they are, we have seen a number of terrible trades

<v Speaker 1>in the history of the NBA. And today you know,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not even talking about just trading for draft picks,

<v Speaker 1>because there can actually be a certain amount of luck

<v Speaker 1>that is required for draft picks to work out. No, no, no,

<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about when you make a trade primarily for

<v Speaker 1>other players and you botch it. Today, our dly nose

<v Speaker 1>Top five is counting down the worst five trades in

<v Speaker 1>NBA history. Get ready for some bad ones. We start

<v Speaker 1>off at number five, and this is a situation where

<v Speaker 1>a team was struggling and so they decided what we've

<v Speaker 1>got to make a move. We go back to nineteen

<v Speaker 1>sixty five, where the San Francisco Warriors were having a

<v Speaker 1>dreadful season. After going to the NBA Finals in sixty four.

<v Speaker 1>Even though they lost, the bottom fell out in sixty

<v Speaker 1>five and the Warriors would go just seventeen and sixty three,

<v Speaker 1>despite the fact that Will Chamberlain was putting up insane

<v Speaker 1>numbers in that terrible season. Chamberlain was averaging thirty nine

<v Speaker 1>points and twenty four rebounds a game, but his Warriors

<v Speaker 1>were one of the worst teams in the league and

<v Speaker 1>Will was not happy. So in spite of all that production,

<v Speaker 1>the Warriors decided we're gonna try to get something for him.

<v Speaker 1>They traded Wilt to Philadelphia for Connie Dirking Paul Newman.

<v Speaker 1>What we've got here is failure, Munkey, No, not that guy,

<v Speaker 1>Lee Schaeffer, and some cash. None of those three players

<v Speaker 1>who went to San Francisco even impacted that franchise. They

<v Speaker 1>were all out of league by seventy one. Meanwhile, Will

<v Speaker 1>went to Philly and won three straight MVPs and led

<v Speaker 1>the seventy six ers to a title in sixty seven.

<v Speaker 1>But the San Francisco Warriors were desperate. They thought maybe

<v Speaker 1>they can flip their fortunes. Instead, they gave away one

<v Speaker 1>of the game's best players ever. And that trade comes

<v Speaker 1>in today at number five. We move on to number

<v Speaker 1>four and we get to another trade that looks so

<v Speaker 1>bad on paper, but let me try to explain the

<v Speaker 1>reason for it. We go back to the year nineteen

<v Speaker 1>seventy six, where the NBA was actually absorbing the ABA,

<v Speaker 1>and those ABA teams had to pay their newly established

<v Speaker 1>NBA entry fees and a big territorial indemnity fee. Well,

<v Speaker 1>some of the ABA teams simply didn't have that much money.

<v Speaker 1>Like they're checking their couch cushions, it's not there. And

<v Speaker 1>such was the case for the New Jersey Nets. Now, bizarrely,

<v Speaker 1>the Nets were coming off of winning the ABA Finals

<v Speaker 1>over the Denver Nuggets. But like I said, the ab

<v Speaker 1>agents wasn't making much money. You didn't have TV contracts,

<v Speaker 1>So the Nets could not afford to pay beloved superstar

<v Speaker 1>forward Julius Doctor j Irving. So they traded Doc to

<v Speaker 1>the Philadelphia Sixers. What did they get in return? And

<v Speaker 1>actually they didn't get anyone. They got three million bucks

<v Speaker 1>in cash, which they used to pay their league fees

<v Speaker 1>and they shed that salary of Docs. But the Nets

<v Speaker 1>have never won anything since. Look, I get it, they

<v Speaker 1>needed the money. They got some money, but the neft

<v Speaker 1>torpedo of their own franchise in the process. They dealt

<v Speaker 1>Doctor j for cash, and they come in to day

<v Speaker 1>at number four. We arrive at number three, and we

<v Speaker 1>go back to the year. In nineteen seventy. Oscar Robertson

<v Speaker 1>was in his early thirties but looked like he was

<v Speaker 1>kind of nearing the end of his career. Robertson had

<v Speaker 1>played his entire career for the Cincinnati Royals, but he

<v Speaker 1>wasn't very happy with Royals management, and when they named

<v Speaker 1>Bob Coosey the head coach, Robertson had seen enough. He

<v Speaker 1>actually held a two week holdout to protest the hiring

<v Speaker 1>near the end of the sixty nine to seventy season,

<v Speaker 1>and then he vetoed a trade when they wanted to

<v Speaker 1>trade him to the Washington Bullets. But then when the

<v Speaker 1>Royals got an offer from Milwaukee, Robertson okayed the deal

<v Speaker 1>in exchange for a guy named Charlie Palk and Flynn Robinson,

<v Speaker 1>and the move actually revitalized the Big O's career. He

<v Speaker 1>would go to Milwaukee, he would be paired up with

<v Speaker 1>the young superstar by the name of Kareem Abdul Jabbar,

<v Speaker 1>and in his very first season in Milwaukee, alongside Kareem,

<v Speaker 1>the Bucks won the title. Charlie Palk meanwhile, played just

<v Speaker 1>two seasons in the NBA after the trade. Flynn Robinson

<v Speaker 1>was a little better. He played four seasons, he averaged

<v Speaker 1>ten points a game, but then he was gone. But

<v Speaker 1>of course those two, even if you combine them, they

<v Speaker 1>didn't come close to the impact that Oscar Robertson had

<v Speaker 1>during his four seasons as a Buck, and that trade

<v Speaker 1>for Oscar Robertson comes into at number three. We reached

<v Speaker 1>number two on our list of worst trades in NBA

<v Speaker 1>history where the trade didn't simply consist of future draft picks,

<v Speaker 1>and we get to a guy we just mentioned at

<v Speaker 1>number three. Okay, So, back in nineteen seventy the Milwaukee Bucks, sorry, Milwaukee,

<v Speaker 1>you land here again. The Bucks had drafted UCLA superstar

<v Speaker 1>big man Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Jabar played six highly productive

<v Speaker 1>seasons in Milwaukee. He did bring them that championship in

<v Speaker 1>seventy one. He took him back to the finals in

<v Speaker 1>seventy three, even though they came up short. But Kareem

<v Speaker 1>wasn't happy in Milwaukee. He said he struggled with the

<v Speaker 1>lifestyle in the Midwest and he demanded to be traded

<v Speaker 1>to either Los Angeles or New York. So on June sixteenth,

<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy five, the Milwaukee Bucks would trade Kareem and

<v Speaker 1>Walt Wesley to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for

<v Speaker 1>Elmore Smith, Brian Winters, and Junior Bridgeman, three decent players,

<v Speaker 1>And to be honest, it didn't start out to look

<v Speaker 1>like that big of a steal. The Lakers went just

<v Speaker 1>forty and forty two in Kareem's first season, but then

<v Speaker 1>he settled in and then the Lakers drafted a kid

<v Speaker 1>out of Michigan State named Irvin Johnson, and then, as

<v Speaker 1>they say, the rest was history. Over the first eleven

<v Speaker 1>seasons after this trade, Kareem averaged twenty four points, ten rebounds,

<v Speaker 1>four assists, and three blocks per game. He ultimately would

<v Speaker 1>win five titles in LA. Meanwhile, it took Milwaukee forty

<v Speaker 1>six years to win their next title. Kareem going from

<v Speaker 1>Milwaukee to Los Angeles comes in today at number two.

<v Speaker 1>So we reached the number one worst trade of all time.

<v Speaker 1>And this one is still pretty new because the trade

<v Speaker 1>that made no sense back in twenty twenty five. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>I think it makes even less sense now that Dallas

<v Speaker 1>Mavericks traded Luka Doncic, a once in a generation talent,

<v Speaker 1>for an aging Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a twenty

<v Speaker 1>twenty nine first round pick which probably won't be that high. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>Luca had just proven he could lead the mass of

<v Speaker 1>the Finals in twenty twenty four, and I know that

<v Speaker 1>the league manipulated the draft to try to make up

<v Speaker 1>for this disaster and they let the mass select young

<v Speaker 1>Star Cooper Flag. Oops. Sorry, I mean, I know the

<v Speaker 1>Mavericks just got incredibly lucky and were able to select

<v Speaker 1>young Superstar Cooper Flag in a completely coincidental and random happenstance,

<v Speaker 1>But it still it doesn't take away the fact that

<v Speaker 1>GM Nico Harrison thought he was out smarting everyone and

<v Speaker 1>he gave away Doncic for next to nothing. But here's

<v Speaker 1>the strangest part about it is that he didn't even

<v Speaker 1>seem to send out feelers as to what he might

<v Speaker 1>get in return. He wanted to keep it all such

<v Speaker 1>a secret that he just dealt Luca quickly and he

<v Speaker 1>got a very minimal deal. The Jalen Brown deal go

<v Speaker 1>down as one of the worst in history. I suppose

<v Speaker 1>it has a chance, but we'll see if it actually

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