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[QUOTE="Day2, post: 3984273, member: 5348"]
While the Clippers trading for Elton Brand and Andre Miller over the course of two offseasons made a lot of sense on paper, those moves sacrificed a core of young players that remains to this day the most fun team to watch during my 20+ years as a fan. The issue with that group wasn't personnel, it was Alvin Gentry.

Odom, Miles, Richardson, Maggette, Dooling...they had enough talent to be a playoff team, they just needed more time to develop and a better head coach. Given that opportunity, I think they would have made the postseason ahead of the Brand-led squad that made it in 2006.

The Brand extension shocked the basketball world and proved Sterling was finally serious about spending money (not that he had much choice with the minimum team salary requirement), but it cost the Clippers Odom, after they had already given up Miles for Miller.

Don't get me started on Miller. Everyone thought he was a perfect fit because LA was his hometown. He had zero interest in being a Clipper, though, and that's how he played. I was ecstatic when he left...until I realized he was teaming up with Melo.

So yeah, acquiring Brand and Miller was aggravating, because it meant we wouldn't be able to see more plays like this:

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