Slideshow: theGrio’s top 10 controversial sports trades

SLIDESHOW - theGrio wanted to take a look back at past trades that left sports fans cheering for joy or face palming their heads disgust...

Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

While Deron Williams’s trade to the New Jersey Nets is dominating headlines in the sporting world, just two days ago, all eyes were on Carmelo Anthony, as fans waited to see he where he would land before the trade deadline. Now with ‘Melo and Ama’re Stoudemire, the New York Knicks are proclaiming they are “back”. With this blockbuster trade finally completed, we at theGrio wanted to take a look back at past trades that left sports fans cheering for joy or face palming their heads disgust. Here are theGrio’s most controversial sport trades.

SHARE THIS ARTICLE