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Post by Ian Noble on Jul 3, 2014 21:01:18 GMT
 Hall of ShameDedicated to those GMs who have significantly harmed their team and the health of the league.  Tracy McGrady - Washington Wizards
(GM: Tracy McGrady) (Feb 2014 - July 2014)
TMac inherited a team that was prepared for a good solid rebuild and instantly reversed that trend, even though it would require a near miracle of trading effort to turn Washington's available assets into a contender. The trades were bad just by themselves, but the effect was compounded because almost all of the players McGrady acquired were in a contract year and no effort was made to re-sign them in free agency only months after acquiring them. TMac became inactive and disappeared two weeks before Off Season Free Agency began and never returned. In the tiny window of opportunity that did exist the Wizards won only 35 games and didn't reach the playoffs in a historically weak Eastern Conference.
Initial signs did seem positive after veteran Al Horford was brought into Washington in exchange for essentially only the Wizards 1st Rounder. However more young prospects were sacrificed to bring in an expiring Tyreke Evans, multiple picks and prospects, including Otto Porter, were thrown to the wind in exchange for ageing big man David West. A first rounder, who turned out to be none other than Karl Anthony Towns was combined with Evan Fournier in exchange for an already regressing JR Smith. Finally a contract-year Monta Ellis, at the tail-end of his career, was acquired with almost all of Washington's remaining rebuilding assets in a trade that was given such little forethought that Tracy McGrady had to sign four players just to make it legal. The last juice was squeezed out on April 4th when TMac traded the only two remaining rebuilding assets he had left, two second rounders in the furthest years allowed (one of which became All Star Pascal Siakam) for two players he would lose to free agency within a month anyway.
With nothing left to trade away it took one month until Tracy McGrady lost interest and disappeared leaving the smoking wreckage of the Wizards franchise behind him.
In that last month David West, JR Smith and Monta Ellis were traded for players who became the expiring Andre Iguodala and Andrew Bogut, also nearing the end of their careers, who simply left during free agency when Tracy McGrady didn't even bother to show up.
McGrady's tenure was a mere 4 months long, it took him 3 months to trade away all of his draft picks and youth for declining veterans, it took a further one month for him to completely lose interest and disappear at the worst possible time (during Off Season Free Agency), losing all of the declining veterans he acquired anyway and single handedly destroying the Washington Wizards franchise in only 4 months. At the time of amending this post the Wizards are yet to reach higher than 31 wins in a season a full 5 years after TMac's departure.
received:
Al Horford, Mo Williams, Mike Dunleavy, Jordan Hill, Andray Blatche
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WAS 2014 1st (Doug McDermott), MEM 2015 1st (Karl Anthony Towns), WAS 2016 1st (Jakob Pöltl)
CHI 2014 2nd (Semaj Christon), WAS 2014 2nd (Spencer Dinwiddie), ATL 2015 2nd (Anthony Brown), SAS 2015 2nd (Jarell Martin), WAS 2015 2nd (Rakeem Christmas), MIL 2016 2nd (Marcus Paige), WAS 2016 2nd (Pascal Siakam), WAS 2017 2nd (Ivan Rabb)
Otto Porter, Kelly Olynyk, Norris Cole, Alex Len, Meyers Leonard, Perry Jones, Tim Hardaway Jr, Evan Fournier
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Post by Jeremiah Hill on Jul 5, 2014 23:58:12 GMT
Wow, he decimated this team.
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Post by Charles Barkley on Jul 6, 2014 0:08:53 GMT
Hall of ShameDedicated to those GMs who have significantly harmed their team and the health of the league. Tracy McGrady - Washington Wizards
(GM: Tracy McGrady) (Feb 2014 - July 2014)
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WAS 2014 1st (Doug McDermott), MEM 2015 1st, WAS 2016 1st
CHI 2014 2nd, WAS 2014 2nd, ATL 2015 2nd, SAS 2015 2nd, WAS 2015 2nd, MIL 2016 2nd, WAS 2016 2nd, WAS 2017 2nd
Kelly Olynyk, Norris Cole, Alex Len, Meyers Leonard, Perry Jones, Tim Hardaway Jr, Evan Fournier
Let's keep a good track of who these picks become. The MEM 2015 alone is looking like a >10% odds lotto, and he got Fournier along with it. I think we all tried to warn him about what would likely happen, but he dipped out at the most crucial point in time for his franchise building.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2014 0:31:47 GMT
What happened to "D7?"
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Post by Clyde Drexler on Jul 6, 2014 0:56:39 GMT
T-Mac sort of disappeared entirely just before free agency started  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2014 0:58:06 GMT
T-Mac sort of disappeared entirely just before free agency started Yeah, he's done that before!  |
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Post by Magic Johnson on Jul 9, 2014 3:45:56 GMT
Ian needs to put that European guy that wanted to create all euro player Lakers tea.
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Post by Clyde Drexler on Jul 9, 2014 4:04:50 GMT
Ian needs to put that European guy that wanted to create all euro player Lakers tea. Who's that? |
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Post by Magic Johnson on Jul 9, 2014 4:07:44 GMT
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Post by Kevin Ware on Jul 9, 2014 18:56:28 GMT
 Lol, he messed my old team up.
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Post by Ian Noble on Jun 11, 2015 21:34:32 GMT
My prediction came true! Now that Washington has traded away all their picks I anticipate, based on previous experiences, that he will now begin making slightly questionable trades and the talent level of the Wizards lineup will begin to deplete slowly over time until TMac leaves or goes full-rebuild.. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2016 17:58:25 GMT
Added:
James Kay*
*for not eating shoe
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Post by Ian Noble on May 17, 2016 20:05:19 GMT
I can never stop being amazed how bad TMac was as a GM. He sits head and shoulders ahead of all other GMs as the worst ever. If you *wanted* to destroy your team, TMac used the most efficient method to do it.
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Post by Brian Scalabrine on May 17, 2016 20:26:48 GMT
KAT and Fournier for JR Smith is the worst trade in D5 and NBA history. By far
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Post by Alex English on May 17, 2016 20:43:13 GMT
I can never stop being amazed how bad TMac was as a GM. He sits head and shoulders ahead of all other GMs as the worst ever. If you *wanted* to destroy your team, TMac used the most efficient method to do it. It's funny because he wasn't bad in the beginning. He put together a solid team that would have done very well in the east. Then he just kept and trading, and trading, and he over-traded his team until he had no real assets to work with except for Al Horford. |
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Post by Ian Noble on Dec 31, 2017 22:06:48 GMT
Added the final piece of the puzzle - WAS 2017 2nd Rounder (Ivan Rabb)! It's difficult to quantify how bad this guy was but with over 3 years having passed now we're starting to get a better picture. Al Horford remains the only positive, his career revitalised in Boston, but there's a few of the picks and prospects who are looking good: Karl Anthony Towns - obviously Evan Fournier Doug McDermott is improving Pascal Siakam is decent Kelly Olynyk is a solid player Tim Hardaway Jr is looking great Jakob Poeltl is improving Re-reading this thread is does seem a bit crazy to keep posting here about it, but I find it quite entertaining  |
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Post by Ian Noble on Jan 21, 2020 16:17:01 GMT
TMac's reign is the gift that keeps on giving - Pascal Siakam has developed into a borderline franchise player, was traded for Marvin Williams and Courtney Lee towards the end of TMac's shitstorm. All TMac had to do was make his draft picks and he would have had a team: C - Karl Anthony Towns F - Pascal Siakam F - Otto Porter G - Evan Fournier G - Spencer Dinwiddie That's one of the better rebuilt teams in the league, ready for a free agent signing or two. |
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Post by Tracy McGrady on Aug 24, 2020 22:37:50 GMT
Man... this guy sucks. Good riddance.
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Post by Ian Noble on Aug 25, 2020 8:21:15 GMT
Man... this guy sucks. Good riddance.  Welcome back TMac  For better or worse you've become a legendary piece of D5 history! It's been six years since your blitzkrieg ended  If a team opens up I'd be really interested to see how you'd do things differently. Like you said in Shoutbox, times have changed, you might know your stuff better. Just know the trade committee would nevertheless be on high alert hehe. Great to see you again!  |
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Post by Tracy McGrady on Aug 25, 2020 16:00:50 GMT
Man... this guy sucks. Good riddance. Welcome back TMac For better or worse you've become a legendary piece of D5 history! It's been six years since your blitzkrieg ended If a team opens up I'd be really interested to see how you'd do things differently. Like you said in Shoutbox, times have changed, you might know your stuff better. Just know the trade committee would nevertheless be on high alert hehe. Great to see you again! I don't mind being the butt of the joke for now, but in all honesty I think I would do a way better job a second time around. It would be a real awesome underdog story to bring my name out of the mud where it belongs right now. Looking back, I did trade a lot of valuable assets because I didn't understand the concept of "tanking" for the future so I traded for players above 80 rating to try and win right away. But D5 better watch out this second time, things will go different I promise. I'm ready for the challenge |
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Boston Celtics
Lol, he messed my old team up.
New Orleans Pelicans
Denver Nuggets
For better or worse you've become a legendary piece of D5 history!
If a team opens up I'd be really interested to see how you'd do things differently. Like you said in Shoutbox, times have changed, you might know your stuff better. Just know the trade committee would nevertheless be on high alert 