No. 3 1968 Sixers trade Wilt Chamberlain to Lakers for Jerry Chambers, Archie Clark, and Darrall Imhoff
How this trade ever got approved is one of the league’s great wonders. You don’t just trade Chamberlain, especially after he just delivered an NBA title in 1967. He averaged a dominant 27.6 points and 23.9 rebounds for the Sixers and he was an All-Star for the entirety of his career in Philadelphia. He went on to have similar success with the Lakers.
Meanwhile, Chambers did not even suit up for the Sixers due to fulfilling a service to the military and while Clark and Imhoff were solid, they just weren’t Chamberlain. It’s a shame that that deal happened or else Philadelphia could have had a really dominant run in the East.