The Deep 3 Podcast - The Biggest Mistake NBA Teams Made In The Last 10 Years | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

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Get the new iPhone 17 Pro at TELUS.com slash iPhone 17 Pro on select plans. Conditions and exclusions apply. I'm going to name an NBA team, and I want you to tell me the biggest mistake they've made. in recent years. What is the biggest modern mistake this NBA team has ever made?

The Milwaukee Bucks. The biggest mistake the Bucks have made is trading for DEMURO right now. It probably has to be that, right?

Yeah, you cut him and you gave him a big check and now you have $20 million just for no reason sitting on your books. Yeah.

Like, they dug themselves out of it. And it wasn't a bad, it's hard to say because it wasn't a bad decision. You know, when it happened,

it made sense everybody was excited as hell. It just didn't work. So it's hindsight. I don't think there's anything else I did that was outright ridiculous to give it to yeah I'm not sure but but you're right anytime that you're paying somebody

tens of millions of dollars to not be on your team that is a bad decision yeah so whoa sign a day Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry Under Armour have parted ways what that's crazy

whoa the Curry brand Curry standalone endeavors the Curry brand will move forward independently so he was going to keep brand is the under armor we took everything it's like Jordan leaving what happened to the fox shoe it stays it's just under curry brand independently that's crazy that's why it's called the curry fox too not the underarmor oh wow that's actually okay Nico harrison i'm gonna be managing him now right his wrongs yeah yeah the bucks has to be the daming a little trade they're doing it as good as i

can to dig themselves out of it but brown is so nasty he's gonna get stuff to go to night Curry to Nike. All right. If he does that, you know, you got it, you got it. All right.

Buck's Damien Lilitrade. Memphis Grizzlies. So we'll talk about this era. What was the mistake of the John and Jared era that led to it being where we are? Letting go of Dylan Brooks.

You know what it is? It's letting go Dylan Brooks. People say half joking. Then they decided to trade two first-on picks for Marcus Smart. That was the only move. Again, wasn't bad in the moments.

He didn't do a damn thing in Memphis worth note. In fact, he was actively bad in Memphis. he didn't honestly i would say i would say hiring your coach without doing a proper oh that's also a jackass move when you are at a very very key like fork in the road you you you just traded uh desmond bain you know that and actually i may at this point but like you are at an inflection point with your franchise and you did not do your due due diligence on your coaching hire now we're in this mess that that feels like it like a big mistake it's up there it's all cumulative

I guess hiring you solo isn't bad He's not working to start the year He still could work Like by the time you're watching us in a couple months It could work and we're saying he's a good coach now But the simple principle Of not doing a coaching search It's just strange

Yeah yeah exactly Also letting go with Stephen Adams Not realizing how valuable he was To your franchise, John Morant Crazy work Sometimes there's a lot of things led to where we are now A lot of cumulative decay of the roster Yeah where are your vets? Who are your vets man?

That's a marketing smart was the only move That was swinging for contention You're right I remember because they tried so many times To offer all these picks They tried to trade for McCaubridges I think we were We had a slight conversation

About them with KD Jimmy Butler They tried to reach out to Miami For Jimmy Butler Jimmy was like I do not want to stay With Memphis at all They tried They swung

And they just missed time after time After time after time Yeah at least they tried No it wasn't ridiculous Atlanta Hawks Dejante Murray Damn you Actually not damn you

But it's like, yo, Landry Fields, super damn you. No, what's the name of the owner's son that apparently pushed for it? It starts with an R. I forget his name. I don't remember it, but damn him. Apparently he was the architect behind the Dejante Murray thing. He's still there. Yeah, that set our organization back for a couple,

over like maybe a year, two years or so. You're still feeling it. Like, they lost so many assets doing that. That was an only move that, like, they would be so much further along right now if it wasn't for that. Trey Young's reputation is in the gutter partially because of that. Thank God the Pelicans do them a life raft and giving Dyson Daniels for him. Exactly.

Without that, without that pick, we would be dead. Dude, they didn't have Dyson Daniels right now? Where would they be? I don't know where it would be if we didn't have to. Tensee. Still. Trey Young would be in San Antonio. Dyson or fucking Jalen Johnson too.

God, man. If they didn't get Dyson Daniels in that trade, Trey Young would have been traded the Spurs last year instead of Dier and Fox. There's a scenario in which that is true, and I hate it. Miami Heat. Ooh. Worst decisions that they made. So in their modern history.

Trading for Terry Roosier. Oh, that was bad. That was so bad. That was bad. But first round pick for Terry Rozier's year. The White Side deal. Oh, that was a huge contract. They gave White's had $96 million.

I would have gave him a $200 million, man. Prime White Side. They moved here. I think, yeah, I think, like, they were obviously able to navigate themselves out of that, but that deal was so, so bad. Do we change it up a little bit and go with them allowing Dway to wear Chicago Bulls jersey and then a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey? If we want to talk about that, it also change it up a little bit and being like them allowing

D. Way to be wrapped with that ugly ass statue that they have, bro, embarrass him in his lineage. What the fuck? They really did Dway dirty in many occasions. Yeah. Do we want to go even further and say, retiring Michael Jordan's number when he never played for the franchise Oh, we're damn sure

What that is the biggest mistake they've ever made We're really, the topic of this video is modern mistakes About the last 10 years or so We will make a huge Huge exception for them doing that shit That is so embarrassing Yeah OD glazing

Heat fans should have shame Shame shame shame shame upon them Sacramento Kings Where did they go wrong in his era Of lighten the beam? Everything. Everything What? But specifically trade in Tyreys Halliburton

Yeah Like they were good after that They had the beam season You still wish you had Halliburton But like hindsight, okay Deciding to have the pivot After your good season When you have a one bad one

Being Demard Rosen That was That did it And then seeing that And same As Zach Levine to that as well Yeah I just

They don't have any hope Right now They really haven't had any hope For the last 20, 25 years But Halliburton could have been You see what what Tyrese did for the for the pacer's you could have had that and you traded that away yeah honestly also too it's respectable to the heart and i like to see when organizations follow a player

and they grant them their request when it comes to where they want to be traded to they shouldn't have listened to the air and fox dear and fox respect or not you're the kings no one respects you at the end of the day like you should try to maximize your peak value for someone like him even though he wasn't like it wasn't a robust market but you got to pay up a little bit more what they're get from Zach Collins what? What are the

from? I don't remember no one remembers they got some picks is the main thing but yeah stuff bullshit picks

yeah yeah trai Halliburton the news picks yeah Halliburton keeping him would have been

smarter and then deciding to go down this path and leading to Martyrosen was the death blow yeah

Los Angeles Lakers you know good and well what it is yeah tell me trading for

Russell Westbro God damn I just had to hear it one time I'm a masicist oh now in principle you could talk to the stupidest person in the world and talk to him about how this makes

sense. LeB. injured like that. We have Russell Westbrook who plays hard all the time and don't be missing games, but he do be missing the rim all of the time. So it's pros and cons. We're talking about this many times. It's definitely that. He shut the window shut for LeBron and A. D. being able to win a championship together after 2020, it completely destroyed their ability to do anything in free agency because they have three gigantic contracts. It was done with it happened, it was maligned by anybody with a brain, some people might convince themselves that, oh, we'll get LeBron sitting

screens, and maybe we'll get Russ to buy into doing the little things. Incorrect. He did all the big things, and did all the big things poorly. Yeah. So I think it's that, and also I think it's going from gold to yellow. They are not the purple and gold anymore. They wear bright yellow.

That's a bigger affront to the bust legacy. It honestly is. They're bananas. This is a Savannah bananas. out here. It's terrible. Mavericks. Hmm.

What could possibly be wrong? Have they done anything crazy? I just want to take the second for us to get one more last opportunity to laugh at Nico Collins. I mean, Nico Harrison. I want us laugh at Nico Harrison for a good 30 seconds straight.

He will be remembered over the last like at least bare middle in 50 years like the talking point of the idiot of the decade, for other than a fucking decade. I'm going to predict that one point we're going to turn Nico into a verb.

Anytime somebody makes a bad mistake, this guy just Nikoed. Yeah, he Nikoed all over himself. He walked in for an office and he Nikoed all over everybody. Oh man, I just had a Niko moment, bro.

I'm Nico in. Come now, come down. All the other Nicos in the world like, yo! I'm Nico into my airs. Yeah, man, it's all bad. Yeah, when you make a deal and everyone's like,

man, stop playing. Like that's like, that's fake yeah bro wanted to keep it in secret and to this day every time somebody's asked about it every player that goes in a podcast is asked where were you when the lucre trade happened and every single time their answer is bro i thought that shit was fake they talk about that shit like it's 9-11 or some shit like that's like the first covid variant just drops like it's 9-11 in the age of AI so they're like no way that that really happened yeah that's crazy man it's like it's definitely going to be in like 50 years from now when we're all in or when our kids kids are in history class

somehow some way this is going to make its way into the section like history US history the one business move that tanked the GDP of a city

exactly Pelicans where did they go wrong we can do the AD era the Zion era moving to New Orleans yeah in the first place

low key that does feel like that's probably the biggest thing now that nothing has gone well since they moved to New Orleans yeah and it's not this like their current state is not even at like

It's not the product of a singular move. Well, no, they were already in New Orleans. They were just the Hornets, but they were in New Orleans originally. Bringing the Pelicans back. Okay, ever since they rebranded to the Pelicans, everything has gone poorly. We always talk about New Orleans being cursed. It's really this goddamn Pelican that's cursed. Yeah.

Before we talk about taking this team away from New Orleans, we've got to change their mascot. The most, like, outstanding time over the last five to six years that I've had watching New Orleans basketball featured Lanzo. J.J. Reddick. Then there was Zion, of course, there too. And I forget who their center was. That was an amazing time. Didn't do a damn thing in New Orleans. To vibe and presence there was. He was just there. But you know what? They liked the name that one series. They did. That was really good for them.

Let's specifically focus on the Zion era. They're terrible now. Where did the Zion era go wrong? Drafting Zion. Which I'm guessing. I don't want the draft job. Like is the right move. He's supposed to drive RJ Barrett? I don't know, man. It's everything. Like, there's just so much.

There's not one particular thing that won't wrong. Trained for DeJonthe Murray is probably the biggest reason we are where we are now. Not really, not even. We can't keep doing this to the Johnson's Murray where like acquiring him is the worst thing. Well, they trade for him when he was already like on the low end and they decided to go all in on that and he got hurt immediately. Like, that's probably the death blow here. That's why they're one of the worst teams in the league. No, that's not.

I think why they're one of the worst teams of league is because they fucked up. Mars. Yeah, well, that too. And then also they completely fucked up the package that they got for AD and Drew Holiday and they walked away with little to nothing. Jordan Hawkins. You also have Trey Murphy. He's the best thing that we got from this.

There were a playoff team two years ago, though. When they had Trey Murphy, Herb, Ingram, and Zion all playing well, they managed to make a playoff series. And they had a top-10 defense. Like, there was a point where they got something decent out of that. And then the trade for Jonathan Murray. And they traded away Ingram. Then I would say, yeah, firing David Griffin.

Yeah. And hiring Joe Dumars is one of the biggest mistakes. It's like you were already like bad and you got way worse. Because you had one guy in the building that was like, hey, we should actually be a real franchise. And then they're like, man, you're being too serious. Like we just want to have fun. It probably is hiring Joe Dumars just because he immediately decided to trade away the first round pick that next year might bless the Hawks. We will see, time will tell there.

But that very well could be the worst trade. You're telling me he traded that pick. And then four months later, he's like, yo, I don't have any play. expectations you guys are crazy man did that did that right before that obviously he couldn't have known gave the Pacers their pick back yeah yeah they could have been in a situation he's the cursed one they the the Pelicans really could have been in a situation where they had two top ten picks next year if you had the Pacers pick and your pick and now both of those picks are elsewhere so if you did it would just stay patient

and didn't try to change it all in one draft and go all in on this year crazy situation you could have had AJ and Campbell's yeah you would have You would have changed the entire trajectory of your franchise for the next 15, 20 years. And now that's not a guarantee that would happen, but it's a guarantee it won't happen now. He could have went to AP and spent 200K. And that's not possible anymore. Washington Wizards. Where did they go wrong?

They gave Bradley Bill all the money in the world and said on top of that, here's a no trade clause. That's the worst part. The no trade clause is by far the worst decision they made. They waited way too long to get rid of him. Wait a way too long to trade Cusma. They held on to that arrow. As long as they could, they tried real hard to be competitive around Bradley Beal. Like, that's a sentence that makes sense.

Like, we're going to make the playoffs with this core. It was a ridiculous thing and made the rebuild take way too long. They didn't tank in the Victor Wehambay draft, but they decide to tanking all in in the Zachary Rishishishay draft. And then you go ahead in between those years, too, and you get rid of Denny of Diyah, because you want to prioritize something like Bilal Kulibali, who's onto nothing right now. And Denny's an all-star right now as you speak. Then he put up like 26 points. Then he'd get into the line like 10 times a game. I don't know if y'all know that.

But he'd be pretty cool next to Alex R, I think. Yeah. Does he good players? Yeah. They're not all interested in having good players. Yeah. The Bradley building was a nightmare. Yeah.

No trade clauses. Toronto Raptors. Where did they go wrong after the championship window? Kwai Leonard was shut, but then they had a couple good years after that. Waiting too long to blow it up. Yeah. They waited one year too long on Siakum and OG. And then they finally trade OG who they really should have traded the year.

before. That was the one where he was in all the rumors. And they immediately give Emmanuel quickly a fat-ass contract. Yep. They said, yo, I don't even need to see none, bro. Tell me what you get at and I believe in your. Here's 200 months. They really said, let me know what you want and I'll trust it. And it didn't go well. Top tier tricks, bro. Masai Jee was a trick. He was going for anything, bro. Anything you tell him? Yeah, bro, like, he's going for it. Easiest lick. It wasn't terrible in the moment to take a bet on the guy you believe in and like trust it. The money had to go to someone. That shit did not age well.

Looking back, it was a huge mistake. It had to get his ass out of there immediately. Golden State Warriors. What stopped him from reinvigorating their championship window after 2022? Violence. It could be violence. It could be the NBA draft. Steve Kerr and how he worked out.

Anthony Edwards, too, and shit. That's probably the biggest mistake is taking. You had an opportunity to have the number two overall pick. You could have had a star, but you took James Wise. Yeah, that's probably it. Yeah, it has to be the Wiseman pick. And the coming up pick to a lesser extent, there's also plenty of good players

that could have went there with that pick. But at least he's a playable player. The Wiseman thing, like, it is truly such a once-in-a-generation opportunity to have a championship team and you take a number two overall pick to supplement it. Like, many teams would beg for that opportunity.

And to squander it on absolutely nothing, you didn't even get mid with that pick. You got absolutely nothing. You waved Wiseman at one point, didn't you? No, no, no. They won't wait. They train him away for almost nothing. They traded him for like four first,

four second round picks. So they can go get GP2. Yeah. That's a grievous. Essentially trade in for GP2. Yeah. Yeah. Tough shit.

Yeah, that's the, that's the worst one in the history. It's really not close, honestly. In the last of 10 years, it's not close. Yeah. And that's the last one. Tough. Tough.

Sad stuff. This was all a fun way to laugh in Equal Harrison.