Russell's achievements were much greater he won 11 championships in 13 years, averaged 15.1 ppg, 22.5 rebounds per game, 4.3 assists per game, five MVP awards, got into 12 All-Star games, three All NBA first teams, eight All NBA second team, one All NBA first Defensive team, four time rebounding champion, and two NCAA championships. Hagan averaged 17.7 ppg, 6.6 rebounds per game, 3.2 assists per game, won one championship, got into five all-star games and a few other awards. McCauley had averaged 17.5 ppg, 7.5 rebounds per game, 3.2 assists per game, won one championship, got into seven All-Star games, and a couple of other awards. He got traded for Ed McCauley and Cliff Hagan who were pretty good, but do not compare to Bill Russell in achievements. In the 1956 draft Bill Russell got drafted 2nd overall in the first round by the Atlanta Hawks and traded to the Boston Celtics where he spent his 13 year career. I will now be listing the Top 15 Worst Draft Pick Trades. It usually is not their faults if they trade away someone who is a future All-Star for someone who is gonna be a bust because they could never predict the future and know that the person they're trading is gonna be a star. It is very stressful on draft day for GMs because they have to pick a player who they think will be good, and they have to decide whether or not to keep or trade that player for other players in the draft who they think are good. This was a pretty awful trade because Oakley went on to be a pretty good player while Keith Lee and Ennis Whitley never went on to amount to anything. A great example of a player being drafted and traded on draft day was in the 1985 draft when the Cleveland Cavaliers picked Charles Oakley with their 9th pick and traded him to the Chicago Bulls for Ennis Whitley and Keith Lee. The outcome usually is that a team with the good drafted player trades that drafted player away and gets screwed over. It is no easy decision to trade your drafted player for another drafted player because you can never predict the outcome. In this article I will be talking about teams that ended up doing terrible trades on draft day or a couple of weeks after draft day and losing their future all-star. It is really amazing to go back and see that a player that is currently an all-star got traded for someone that you have never heard of.
Many teams in the present and past have drafted players and traded them during the draft to try to get better players and some teams have actually succeeded in ripping off the other team. ESPN’s Marc Stein reports that the Kings are willing to consider a trade for Gay: Sacramento is said to be seeking a quality young player in return if it parts with Gay. In most of the NBA drafts throughout NBA history teams have traded their players that they drafted for other drafted players or money. But when you look at the pillars of talent, specifically in terms of scoring talent, Rudy Gay is still a significant asset as the team’s second-leading scorer (18 PPG).