Winning the championship and getting the champion sign, how did the Lakers do it in 82?

NBA champions are talented young people, and many times, when a champion is selected by the fish belly team, he can turn over and become a hero, and even complete the transformation to the dynasty. So in order to balance the strength of the league, teams with poor records every year have a better chance of getting a high signing. And those teams that compete for the championship can often only choose the low pick**.

However, in the history of the NBA, there is also such a team, they not only led the team to win the championship that season, but also got the top pick, which directly started the prelude to a dynasty.

This team is the Lakers, Abdul-Jabbar was the first person in the league in the 70s, and after he joined the Lakers, Goodrich, the Lakers' original number one star, chose to join the Jazz. The Jazz acquired Goodrich and sent away a future draft pick. It is worth mentioning that in 79, the Jazz were at the bottom of the league, and the inconspicuous draft pick that year also turned into the top pick, and later the Lakers selected the Magic.

Abdul-Jabbar + Magician, two historical-level supergiants have joined forces, and their strength is naturally undoubted. In the first season of cooperation, they led the Lakers to the top of the list, and the playoffs were also devastating, winning the championship that year in one fell swoop. Abdul-Jabbar averaged 32+12+3 per game and Magic averaged 18+10+9 per game, and both played flawlessly.

Among them, Magic G6 single-core led the team to win the game and became the youngest FMVP in history.

It is worth mentioning that the Lakers also completed a trade with the Cavaliers that year. At that time, the Cavaliers were a weak team in the East, with a 37-45 record in the regular season, unable to enter the playoffs, but they were not a fish belly team. The Cavaliers actively sought a change and eventually made a deal with the Lakers, in which the Cavaliers acquired Don Ford and a 1980 first-round pick, as well as their own 1982 first-round pick.

This was originally just an inconspicuous trade, a higher draft pick in exchange for a role player + a lower draft pick, such a deal is staged in the NBA almost every year. But nothing happened to be written, the Cavaliers' 81-82 season was poor, and the draft pick was not protected, and in the end this draft pick became the top pick.

In the 1982 Finals, Abdul-Jabbar and Magic were in full swing, and they teamed up to win the championship again and help the Lakers reach the top. That is, after winning the championship, the Lakers held the top pick, and then they used this pick to select James Worthy, another powerful small forward. In the end, the 3-champion combination of Abdul-Jabbar + Magic + Worthy opened the Showtime era and led the Lakers to become the league's hegemon.

The championship team has won the top pick, and this is the only time in history.

Under normal circumstances, the "fish belly" team with a poor performance in the past season has a good chance of winning the NBA's "top pick" in the following year, and those who can be elected as the "top pick" are usually talented young players with first-class ball skills. However, in 1982, there was a team like the Lakers, who not only won the championship that season, but also got the first pick the following year, and directly started a dynasty. That's because the Lakers and the Cavaliers made a trade that year, and the Cavaliers got the Lakers' Don Ford and a 1980 first-round pick, and they sent the 1982 first-round pick to the Lakers, and this pick was not protected, and then due to the Cavaliers' poor record in the '81-82 season, the draft pick became the top pick.

Therefore, after the Lakers won the championship, they used this champion to select James Worthy, an excellent player, which directly opened the famous showtime era in the history of the Lakers.

The Lakers sent Goodridge to a future draft pick from the Jazz and ended up being the No. 1 pick.

Generally speaking, winning the top pick is the patent of a bad team, and the championship team rarely has a chance to get the top pick. But it can be obtained by trading, purchasing. In '82, the Lakers did exactly that, and they got the No. 1 pick.

The only one in history to win the championship and get the top pick, how did the Lakers do it in '82?

We all know that the champion lottery is a panacea for a team to come back from the dead, and many fish belly players have achieved the revival of the team through the champion pick, including the Rockets who chose Olajuwon and achieved their team's 2nd consecutive championship, and the Cavaliers put a bad season and won the champion pick, and chose the little emperor James to help the team become a strong team.

One of the teams won the championship and got the No. 1 pick, what's going on? Let's take a look at this matter.

This pick happened between the Lakers in the West and the Cavaliers in the East, the Cavaliers at that time were a weak team, a belly team, no strength, the whole season was 37-45, and did not reach the top eight positions in the East, so the Cavaliers in the offseason hoped that the team could change, hoping to strengthen the team through trades, so they made a trade with the Lakers, a strong team in the West, and the Cavaliers sent a first-round pick in 1982. The Cavaliers got the Lakers' player Don Ford and the first-round pick, this deal is still relatively safe for both sides, the sky is unpredictable, and the deal itself is a whole deal, but because the Cavaliers' record is too bad, the Cavaliers began to mess up and rebuild, so the Cavaliers got the top pick on the draft, but this pick has been traded to the Lakers, and the Lakers have become the biggest winners.

And in the finals that year, Gutter Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson killed all sides, defeated the team in the East, won the championship, and in the subsequent lottery meeting, the Lakers used this top pick traded from the Cavaliers to select James Worthy, so that the Lakers formed the Big Three, the Lakers relied on this trio, became a dynasty team, and the Lakers also started a purple and gold dynasty era of their own.

And this championship team also got the champion at the same time, which is the only time in history, which is a more sensational thing in the history of the Lakers.

But there are many similar draft events like this, such as the Spurs selected Duncan and became the top pick, which started the Spurs dynasty, when the Spurs only had a super center Robinson who was about to retire, and the Spurs became a fish belly team because of their overall strength, so the Spurs won the first pick that season, so they chose Duncan, Duncan's arrival liberated the center Robinson, and the two of them formed a twin tower to help the Spurs win the championship. And Duncan also became a cornerstone player for the Spurs, starting the era of the Spurs.

And Kobe Bryant is the same, Kobe Bryant was the player selected by the Hornets at the 13th pick, but the Hornets traded him to the Lakers in the West in exchange for center Divac and draft picks, and Kobe's arrival made the Lakers look at the hope of revival, and the Lakers relied on the combination of him and O'Neal to achieve a triple championship of the Lakers dynasty.

In a 1979 trade with the Cavaliers, the Lakers sent Don Ford Plus and a '80 first-round pick, and got the Cavaliers' Butch Lee and '82 first-round pick. As a result, the Cavaliers had a poor record in the 1981-1981 season, and finally won the first pick, and since the trade was completed, the Lakers got the first pick from the Cavaliers.

The Lakers and Cavaliers closed a trade that year. The Cavaliers got Don Ford and a 1980 first-round pick from the Lakers, along with sending his own 1982 first-round pick. And this 1982 draft pick ended up being the top pick.

The Lakers sent Goodridge in '70 to get a future draft pick from the Jazz, and in '79 the Jazz were at the bottom of the league and the future draft pick became the No. 1 pick.

In the 1981-1982 season, the Lakers lifted the championship trophy under the leadership of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilkes, and Johnson, but they also selected James Worthy with the top pick in the '82 draft, which further improved the Lakers' championship lineup. However, the Lakers' No. 1 pick was not obtained through the lottery, but their previous trade.

The Lakers and Cavaliers made a deal in the '79-80 season, when the Lakers traded Don Ford and a 1980 first-round pick for the Cavaliers' Butch Lee and an '82 first-round pick, and then that pick became the No. 1 pick, which is why the Lakers can still have the No. 1 pick after winning the championship.

In the NBA, the strongest teams compete for the championship trophy, and the bottom teams compete for the top pick, which is basically a regular occurrence every season. However, in 1982, there was a very incredible scene in the NBA league, the Lakers, who successfully won the NBA championship in the 81-82 season, they actually held the NBA champion pick this year, so what is going on, how did the Lakers management get this NBA champion pick that year?

In 1979, when the Cavaliers wanted to strengthen the team's roster, the Cavaliers chose the Lakers as their trade partner, and the two teams finally traded players and first-round picks. Among them, the Lakers sent their 1980 first-round pick and successfully obtained the Cavaliers' 1982 first-round pick, which also helped the Lakers successfully obtain the NBA No. 1 pick in the future.

In fact, when the trade was just completed, the Cavaliers' team was okay, not the worst team in the NBA league. However, after that, the Cavaliers made a series of player trades, which also led to a rapid decline in the team's record statistics. By the time of the 81-82 season, the Cavaliers had completely become an NBA fish belly team, and this season the Cavaliers only won 15 regular season games, ranking first in the league.

It is worth mentioning that the Lakers are the first in the Western Conference record list this season, and the records of the two teams are simply worlds apart.

Although the Cavaliers had the lowest record, their lottery luck was still quite good, and the NBA No. 1 pick that year was selected by the two bottom teams in the Eastern and Western Divisions through the "coin toss", and the Cavaliers defeated the Clippers, who were the bottom of the West, in the "coin toss", and got the first pick in the first round of the NBA that year. Of course, it's a pity that this first-round pick no longer belongs to the Cavaliers, and the Lakers have become the ultimate big winners. And in the 1982 NBA Draft, the Lakers, who had just won the championship, used the top pick to select James Worthy, a later Hall of Fame superstar, who helped the Lakers win the NBA championship 3 times in his career!

The Jazz and the Lakers made a trade, the Lakers traded Goodrich, the Lakers got Abdul-Jabbar and a future draft pick, and finally the future pick, because the Jazz became the top pick, and then the Magic was drafted.

Because in the previous trade, the Lakers had already traded from the Cavaliers to get a first-round pick that year, and it just so happened that this first-round pick was the first-round pick.

The Cavaliers sent their 1982 first-round pick to the Lakers in 1979, and the Cavaliers were last in the league in '82 and were drawn to the Lakers.

After Abdul-Jabbar joined the Lakers, Goodrich, the Lakers' original number one star, was traded to the Jazz. At the same time that the Jazz got Goodrich, they sent a future draft pick, and in '79, the Jazz were at the bottom of the league, and that draft pick that year became the top pick, and later the Lakers selected the Magic.

First of all, all teams must have, to train, control diet and body shape, control their own body fat rate, followed by team cooperation, the use of tactics, and then individual ability.

In 1982, when the Lakers had just won the championship in the 1981-82 season, but because the protection of draft picks at that time was not so comprehensive, the Lakers actually got the top pick again. This is also the only miracle in NBA history where an NBA champion has picked a top pick. In the end, the Lakers selected James Worthy, the North Carolina star and Jordan's grandest.

And Worthy is also an important part of the Lakers Showtime era.

At the end of each season's regular season, there will definitely be teams that finish first in the league, and there will definitely be teams that fall to the bottom. The good news for them is that in next season's draft, the team that finishes last has a greater probability of getting a high draft pick next season, which also provides a good guarantee for the team's future rebuild. So in the history of the NBA, has there ever been a team that has won the championship this season and the top pick for next season?

You may not believe it, but there has been a time in NBA history where the Lakers won a championship in 1982 under the leadership of Magic and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It's also worth mentioning that in 1979, the Lakers made a trade with the Cavaliers, who sent Don Ford plus an 80-year first-round pick in exchange for the Cavaliers' Butch Lee and an '82 first-round pick.

However, this deal did not significantly improve the strength of the Cavaliers, and in the 1981-81 season, they only achieved a poor record of 15 wins and 67 losses, and won the first pick in the final draw, but because they traded the first-round pick to the Lakers before, the Lakers also got the first pick in the hands of the Cavaliers, and in the next draft, they selected James Worthy, who also quickly became the third giant of the team under the cultivation of the Lakers. Therefore, the Lakers at that time also ushered in their glory days.

Therefore, the Lakers have become the only team in NBA history to win both a championship and a top pick, which is not only a consideration of the team's strength, but also a competition of luck between management.