Return on an investment

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

I got this idea from the NBA Finals thread where Alfdogg posted winners of the NBA Lottery and who they selected. Basically it goes like this: How long did it take for a team to win a championship after making a deal for a certain player.

 

The Spurs drafted David Robinson in 1987. They won their first title with him during the 98-99 lockout season. 11 years.

 

The Bulls drafted Michael Jordan in 1984 and won their first title during the 90-91 season. Six years.

 

The Rockets drafted Hakeem Olajuwon in 1984 and they won their first title with him during the 93-94 season. NIne years.

 

The Bulls signed Rodman and won a championship that same year.

 

You can also do the same thing for players who got traded to another team, but their original team used that trade to add players who directly or indirectly contributed to a championship. For example, The Lakers drafted Vlade Divac in 1989 and traded him to get Kobe Bryant in 1996. The Lakers won the championship in 2000 with Kobe as a started. Drafting Divac paid off 11 years later. I'm just going with basketball right now because that's where I got the idea from, but post more of these if you can think of them.

[OldSchoolWrestling 0]

The Spurs drafted David Robinson in 1987. They won their first title with him during the 98-99 lockout season. 11 years.

I'd have to argue that Tim Duncan was the person who put them over the top and gave them the title. 1 year

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

I'm not saying that it was all about David Robinson, I'm just saying after picking him in 87, the peices didn't fall together until 11 years later.

[Guest Choken One]

Didn't Magic Johnson win the NBA title with the Lakers in his rookie season?

 

Or was that Larry and the Celtics?

 

either way...they won titles rather quickly thanks to them.

 

Didn't Johnson and Schilling win in their first season with the D-Backs?

[OldSchoolWrestling 0]

Shaq signed with LA in 96 and won his first title in 2000.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

Bird was actually drafted in 1978, joined the Celtics in 1979 and won the title in 1981. NBA is a little harder to do because most of the winners are repeat winners.

 

Here's one: The Cowboys got Herschel Walker in 1988 and then traded him for picks that would eventually build the core of their Super Bowl teams from 1993, 1994 and 1996.

[Guest Anglesault]

Winfield signed bewteen 80 and 81. Return on the Investment? None.

[Brett Favre 0]

Jeter won a title with the Yankees his rookie year.

 

My favorite player in the whole wideworld was traded to the Yankees in 1993 and the Yankees won that title in 1996.

 

Yanks traded for Clemens for the 1998 season and they had 114 wins that year along with the title.

 

Don't talk to me about the Knicks. I'm hoping the Stephon Marbury trade makes this list soon. I know they've won in '70 and '73, but i'm really not old enough to comment.

 

The Jets....Lets go Pennington/Ellis/Abraham in the 2000 draft, followed by Santana Moss in the 2001 draft..hopefully that makes the list soon as well.

[Guest Anglesault]

Yanks traded for Clemens for the 1998 season and they had 114 wins that year along with the title.

Clemens was 99. Still won it all, but not the huge 114 win year

Edited May 28, 2004 by Anglesault

[Brett Favre 0]

 

Yanks traded for Clemens for the 1998 season and they had 114 wins that year along with the title.

Clemens was 99. Still won it all, but not the huge 114 win year

true, Bush, Lloyd and Wells were still in the '98 team.

[Bored 0]

November of 1988, the A's sign Billy Beane and win the World Series in '89.

[Guest Anglesault]

What was Beane's position back then?

[Bored 0]

Bench warmer.

 

As for a real position he was an outfielder.

 

Beane fun fact: He bunted in his final MLB at bat on October 1st, 1989 in the 10th inning of an A's 4-3 win over the Royals. I was that game to boot.

[Guest Anglesault]

Oh, he was still active back then? I figured he had a real low level office type job.

 

Cashman was with the Yankees doing something or other alot earlier then when he became a big name within the organization.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Jagr, Ron Francis and Ulf Sammulesun's (sp) first two seasons with the Pens resulted in Stanley Cup wins...

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Beane was actually a first round draft pick. Beane's career stats....

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/beanebi01.shtml

[KingPK 0]

Tom Brady was drafted in 2000 and a year later he's thrust into the starting job. He isn't doing a bad job at it, as I recall. Not the way the Patriots actually wanted him to start his career, I'd wager, but it worked out nicely.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Green Bay traded for Favre in 92, won the Super Bowl in 96. 4 years. Better than Marino who was drafted in 1983 by the Dolphins, played his entire career with them (something I'd love to see a lot more this day and age) and never won a championship. Closest he came was a year later.