This technically wasn't a trade, but the best sale of all time. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/maxweve01.html February 21, 1990: Sold by the San Antonio Spurs to the Houston Rockets.
these trades brought us CLUTCH CITY October 11, 1988: Traded by the Sacramento Kings to the Houston Rockets for Rodney McCray and Jim Petersen. September 27, 1990: Traded by the Atlanta Hawks with Roy Marble to the Houston Rockets for John Lucas, Tim McCormick and a 1994 1st round draft pick (Charlie Ward). August 2, 1993: Traded by the Portland Trail Blazers to the Houston Rockets for a 1995 2nd round draft pick (Don Reid).
there is no drexler trade if we didn't have otis thorpe there is no clutch city 1 without otis thorpe, hence no clutch city 2 without trading him for drexler
Best trade ever: Scottie Quitten for Kelvin Cato, Stacey Augmon, Walt Williams, Ed Gray, Brian Shaw and Carlos Rogers. NO CONTEST!
Scola trade was great but it falls shotr of Drexler trade bcause he was instrumental in Rockets winning the 2nd ring. If Rockets were to win a ring with Scola making key contributions, its ranking will sky-rocket. Mario Elie trade was also great. We got him from Portland for peanuts and he was a better player than Shane Battier for whom we sacrificed a lottery pick to get. McGrady trade looked great for about a year, but once he started to reveal who he really was/is, it was all downhill from there. One of the better trades was the no-trade. The Rockets defense in the playoffs (which was key during their 2 championships) would have taken a hit without Robert Horry in the lineup. Horry was clutch on both ends of the court in the playoffs.
This is interesting. We have two drafts to go through before we'll know the full extent of how good this trade was. It's entirely possible (even if unlikely) that this trade results in us drafting two young stars. If Jordan Hill continues to improve and we draft two future all-stars all because we sent New York McGrady's corpse? Yeah. We would have essentially rebuilt the entire team by sending out one washed-up diva.
This. Followed a couple years later by a kneejerk trade to be able to defeat one team. While not the worst trade, certainly hampered what might have been with the best(as if a chip isn't enough) trade.
Well you're just judging by trades right? Saying "X trade didn't lead to a championship" is so wrong simply because the catalyst for the two rings is still Hakeem Olajuwon, a player we just drafted. We would have won a ring if Scola played back in the day and we traded one of our cracked up pgs for him ala V-Span. Having said that I think the Moses Malone trade is still the best trade both in terms of value and in terms of results. In the 19-whatevers where MM was traded for drafting players were even more hazy than it is now, so picks then are have even less value. To top it off in MM's time players weren't making as much dough as it is now, so the rockets got an MVP player playing for peanuts.
absolutely no question that the Moses Malone trade was the best for the Rockets. Two MVP's and took the Rockets to the NBA Championship. He dominated Kareem. The Scola trade was great but not quite there with Moses.
Are you serious? we gave up a prime time Steve Francis who averaged 22-7-7 that season and we made the playoffs. unbelievable...
As much as I want to say the OT for Glide trade was the best...I can't. We gave up All-Star NBA talent to get a superstar. Awesome trade, but here we traded a scrub NBA failure (even if he's good overseas) for an international superstar, who should be considered a star. The difference in talent is larger in the latter trade, so I have to say it's the best. Of course, I am not counting results, as hindsight is 20/20 and foresight is essentially blind.
the definitive steve francis moment was when he had a 24 second violation in the playoffs vs the lakers. we knew that he couldn't be the one to lead us to the promise land.. tracy was the better and smarter player
