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[In Retrospect] Which event in the past 20 years has set its respective team back the most?

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  1. steddinotayto

    steddinotayto Contributing Member

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    Discuss. :)
     
    #1 steddinotayto, Jul 28, 2014
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    Sam Bowie.
     
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    Ack, 20 years...Greg Oden.
     
    #3 ShiniKashi, Jul 28, 2014
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    LeBron's free agent decision. Twice.
     
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    1997: Boston tanking but not getting Tim Duncan

    2010: Cavaliers losing LeBron

    2012: Charlotte Bobcats tanking but not getting Anthony Davis


    Others?

    Sorry the original post was supposed to be a poll
     
    #5 steddinotayto, Jul 28, 2014
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    Shaq going to LA.
     
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    Damn that's a good one too.
     
    #7 steddinotayto, Jul 28, 2014
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    Matt Maloney.
     
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    Are we still paying him? :p
     
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    Les didn't want to match for Parsons because he's still paying Maloney.
     
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    Boston not getting Duncan is the most significant. Two top five picks in mercer and Billups equals **** while the Spurs benched Robinson ended up actually winning the lottery and set up the legendary title run they are still on.
     
    #11 Phillyrocket, Jul 28, 2014
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    The Rockets let a obvious franchise-player in Chandler Parsons walk for nothing in the most offensive way possible...

    In all seriousness, though, Lebron to Miami or Shaq to LA.
     
    #12 J Sizzle, Jul 28, 2014
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    How about the combination of roy and oden? That team of:

    Felton
    Roy
    Batum
    Aldridge
    Oden


    Assuming Oden lived up to his potential, that team is insane
     
    #13 Ariza4MVP, Jul 28, 2014
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    Shaq staying in Orlando could mean Kobe would have probably gotten, maybe, 2 rings at best.

    Duncan going to Boston would have probably ended the Spurs franchise.
     
    #14 steddinotayto, Jul 28, 2014
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    First thing I thought of was the Trailblazers and their bad luck draft picks.
     
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    Yao's injuries followed by TMac's back problems.
     
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    Darko gets no love?
     
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    Oh, and the OKC Thunder: setting the Seattle Supersonics back who knows how many years.
     
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    Darko got no love.

    Playing under a coach notorious for not liking rookies, playing behind a veteran championship frontline, and playing for a league that wants you to bulk up into a 7 ft 300 pound freak just because you're a center's height?

    Darko got no love indeed.

    Carmelo should thank the gods that he got drafted to a deadbeat Nuggets team that let him chuck 800 shots a game until his percentage finally went over 40%. Larry Brown sure as hell wouldn't have let him.
     
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    What ruined a potential championship more: OKC trading Harden or Malice at the Palace?

    I think that one night in Detroit set the Indiana Pacers franchise back at least 10 years.
     
    #20 steddinotayto, Jul 28, 2014
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