NBA Trade: 11 shocking NBA trades that almost happened

9. Michael Jordan - Los Angeles Clippers

Jordan if he had joined the Clippers

Any trade involving Michael Jordan can be considered one of the biggest of all time. This one though was particularly eye-opening.

The L.A. Clippers were always considered a bit of a bad joke for most of their franchise history. This could've all changed in 1987.

The now disgraced Donald Sterling apparently was so eager to sign the twenty-four-year-old Jordan that he offered a staggering five players and any number of draft picks chosen by the Bulls to bring him to L.A.

Although Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf wasn't too impressed by the offer, the General Manager of the Bulls at the time Jerry Krause pondered the options that he would receive if he were to accept the trade.

Fortunately for the city of Chicago, Reinsdorf wasn't convinced and the trade never materialized

I think it's safe to say they made the right choice but it also makes you wonder what could have been if the trade had actually gone through.

The Clippers would have ended up with the greatest player of all time, quite possibly won multiples titles and maybe even freed themselves from being the lesser of the two teams based out of Los Angeles for the coming decades.