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The ‘other worst trade’ ... an inside look at Nets’ 2012 deal with Portland

Everyone knows how bad the 2013 Nets trade with the the Celtics turned out and there have been countless articles on how it went down.

But more than a year before, there was another bad trade, a really bad trade, engineered by Billy King, et al, the 2012 deal between the Nets and the Blazers that wound up being a fast deteriorating player, Gerald Wallace, for a lightly protected draft pick that turned into Damian Lillard, the future Rookie of the Year.

Ben Falk was the Basketball Analytics Manager with the Blazers at the time.