Post by eric on Feb 6, 2017 10:44:10 GMT -6
I thought it would be fun to look at championship teams and see what the highest draft pick that they drafted was. I was able to do this for 3006-present because tmbsl.com doesn't have player pages before that. This is also probably a good place to draw a line because teams before that would be heavily influenced by the creation draft, but it doesn't really matter because the information isn't there regardless. The data is also corrupted for 3011 and 3031 so I was only able to find the highest pick for those teams. I didn't count draftees that had left the team and come back - this only happened five times anyway and never in an interesting way. I also counted a player as drafted if they played their first year with the team.
Okay!
So of these 38 champions,
38 had at least one player they drafted,
10 had their own 1.1,
11 had 1.2 or 1.3,
10 had 1.4-1.7,
5 had 1.17-1.21,
2 had 2.7-2.28
The overwhelming majority (31) had not only a lotto pick but a top half of the lotto pick.
There's an odd clump at 1.17-1.21. I have no idea why that is.
And then the 3014 Mavericks had 2.7 and the 3043 Knicks had 2.28.
On average, 40% (198 of 491) of a championship team was drafted.
The max was 73% of the 3025 Grizzlies with 8 firsts (including 4 lottos) and 3 seconds.
The min was 8% of the 3043 Knicks with 0 firsts and 1 second.
In the past 10 years we've had a lot of champions with 1.1: Blazers (Baylor), Nets (Wilkins), Celtics (Bird), and Bullets (Kyrie and Jesus).
But in the 28 years before that there were only three: Blazers (Curry), 76ers (Robinson), and Celtics (Drexler).
Here's a full list of the top pick players for each team:
And here's a graphical representation of where everyone's top pick is:
Okay!
So of these 38 champions,
38 had at least one player they drafted,
10 had their own 1.1,
11 had 1.2 or 1.3,
10 had 1.4-1.7,
5 had 1.17-1.21,
2 had 2.7-2.28
The overwhelming majority (31) had not only a lotto pick but a top half of the lotto pick.
There's an odd clump at 1.17-1.21. I have no idea why that is.
And then the 3014 Mavericks had 2.7 and the 3043 Knicks had 2.28.
On average, 40% (198 of 491) of a championship team was drafted.
The max was 73% of the 3025 Grizzlies with 8 firsts (including 4 lottos) and 3 seconds.
The min was 8% of the 3043 Knicks with 0 firsts and 1 second.
In the past 10 years we've had a lot of champions with 1.1: Blazers (Baylor), Nets (Wilkins), Celtics (Bird), and Bullets (Kyrie and Jesus).
But in the 28 years before that there were only three: Blazers (Curry), 76ers (Robinson), and Celtics (Drexler).
Here's a full list of the top pick players for each team:
year pick team player
3043 57 Knicks Brendan Podoloff
3042 1 Trailbl Elgin Baylor
3041 1 Nets Dominique Wilkins
3040 1 Celtics Larry Bird
3039 1 Celtics Larry Bird
3038 1 Celtics Larry Bird
3037 1 Celtics Larry Bird
3036 4 Bucks Borat Sagdiyev
3035 19 Kings Brandon Knight / Brendan Haywood
3034 1 Bullets Jesus Shuttlesworth / Kyrie Irving
3033 6 76ers Sidney Deane
3032 3 Celtics Joel Embiid
3031 2 Clipper Steve Francis
3030 2 Spurs Len Bias
3029 4 Lakers Kevin Love
3028 18 Nets DJ Augustin
3027 2 76ers Jimmy Chitwood
3026 21 Suns Anthony Jones
3025 5 Grizzli Bryant Reeves / Tyrus Thomas
3024 1 Trailbl Stephen Curry
3023 6 Thunder Maurice Stokes
3022 4 Clipper Sandor Clegane / Willie Nauls
3021 6 Thunder Maurice Stokes
3020 7 Thunder Thabo Sefolosha
3019 17 Thunder Burt Spice
3018 17 Thunder Burt Spice
3017 3 Clipper Dutch Burch
3016 6 Raptors Danny Ferry
3015 1 76ers David Robinson
3014 36 Maveric Donnell Harvey
3013 2 Rockets Wilt Chamberlain
3012 1 Celtics Clyde Drexler
3011 2 Rockets Wilt Chamberlain
3010 2 Rockets Wilt Chamberlain
3009 2 Grizzli Marques Johnson
3008 4 Magic Greg Monroe
3007 3 Cavalie Hakeem Olajuwon
3006 2 Kings Charles BarkleyAnd here's a graphical representation of where everyone's top pick is:
