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00:08Welcome to another edition of Who's Number One, I'm Trey Wingo.
00:13Kids, today's topic is larceny.
00:15We're not talking stolen bases or the Winona Ryder variety.
00:18We're talking about one-sided transactions that make you ask,
00:22do you think these guys bought Enron stock at an all-time high?
00:25We're not counting cash transactions, which explains why the babe to the Yankees, not on this list.
00:32But for every trader who went momentarily brain-dead, there is a tradie toasting his outstanding insight.
00:39Here then, ESPN Classics ranking of the 20 greatest trade robberies of all time.
00:482020.
00:50To the backhand, tapped it on target and has it.
00:55Hatchik kind of gave a hint of what was to come when he was a member of the Blackhawks
01:01in the 1992 final, playing for Chicago against Pittsburgh.
01:07Ariel LeBuse sets up Larry Murphy, lets it go, blocked by Hatchik.
01:102020.
01:11Wow.
01:13In the summer of 1992, the Blackhawks traded little-known backup goalie Dominic Hatchik to the Sabres
01:20for Stéphane Beauregard and fourth-round pick Eric Dazé.
01:24Beauregard never played for Chicago, and Dazé was played by injury through 11 pedestrian seasons.
01:32The Blackhawk franchise over the years really has been a little bit cursed and really not
01:38a contender for a long time now.
01:42Hatchik, meanwhile, filled his portfolio.
01:44Six Vezina trophies, two MVP awards, a Stanley Cup title with Detroit, and an Olympic gold medal
01:50with the Czechs.
01:52This wasn't entirely Chicago's fault.
01:58After this came out, and, uh, yeah.
02:05So, he's a Hall of Famer now.
02:10It's bad now, but people forget, at the time, Chicago had a goaltender by the name of Ed Belfour,
02:16the Eagle, and Dominic Hatchik was the backup for Edie Belfour.
02:19Well, the expansion draft was coming, and the expansion draft rules said you had to leave
02:24a goaltender unprotected, and they weren't going to be able to protect Dominic Hatchik.
02:29So, instead of losing him for nothing, they made the trade to Buffalo, and, of course,
02:35Hatchik went on to be one of the great goaltenders of all time.
02:38That's a trade that, if you could certainly foresee what the payoff is going to be down the line,
02:44you certainly don't make it.
02:56The deal is Larry Boa for Yvonne DeJesus.
02:59Not too bad.
03:01A bouncing ball ahead of the right field.
03:03Brian Sandberg was a throw-in.
03:06Well, there it is, the 2,000th hit of his career.
03:0919.
03:11In 1982, the Phillies and Cubs swapped shortstops.
03:15Yvonne DeJesus to Philadelphia, Larry Boa to Chicago.
03:18As a throw-in, the Phillies sent along Ryan Sandberg, whose entire Major League career
03:23incredible, they just gave up a Hall of Famer for nothing.
03:29...games.
03:30Boa and DeJesus played without distinction for their new teams.
03:33Sandberg played his way into the Hall of Fame.
03:38Brian Sandberg, in the Phillies' farm system, was considered a decent prospect.
03:41The Phillies needed a shortstop in Yvonne DeJesus, and it seemed like it could move at a time,
03:45like a lot of these kind of trades do when you trade a prospect for a veteran guy,
03:49but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.
03:52Fans are saying, the media's saying, well, who's this Sandberg guy in this trade?
03:56Nobody knew who I was, except for Dallas Green, who had just came from the Phillies organization
04:02as manager, and now he was the new GM of the Cubs.
04:08Keep the center!
04:09Look out!
04:10Do you believe it?
04:11It's gone!
04:14In 15 star-spangled seasons with the Cubbies, Sandberg was a 10-time All-Star,
04:19amassing more than 1,000 RBI and nearly 2,400 hits, and winning nine goalbugs.
04:26He was an it-all MVP one year, too.
04:30Best offensive second baseman that I've seen, that I've played against.
04:34As it turns out, sure, a terrible trade, but at the time, I don't think people were saying that.
04:38This is an example of why teams don't want to part with even lesser-known prospects.
04:43You make a move like this, and you never know when it's going to look awful.
04:5118-18.
04:53I heard it on the radio, and the next thing I know, a phone call,
04:56and I said, how am I going to afford to play in Boston?
05:00Boston's last place.
05:02Esposito about to get the score!
05:04Number 500!
05:05Eight.
05:06Esposito was traded?
05:07They traded him from, what, the Blackhawks?
05:12In 1967, Boston traded Pitt Martin, Jack Norris, and Gilles Marat to Chicago for Fred Stanfield,
05:19Ken Hodge, and a player known as Esper, who specialized in taking root in front of the net.
05:25Phil Esposito teamed up with Bobby Orr to form a dynamic duo on skates.
05:31Who knew that that deal was going to turn out the way it did?
05:35Nobody knew that.
05:36That was one of the great trades that rounded out the team for Bobby Orr.
05:43Here comes Orr.
05:44Sir.
05:45This is the second time the Blackhawks blew a trade,
05:53and we've only gone three spots into this list.
05:58He goes behind a shot.
06:00Goal is Phil Esposito's story at 27th goal of the year.
06:04While playing with Orr, Esposito won two Stanley Cup rings,
06:07and twice was the league's MVP.
06:09When he retired in actual history in points and goals.
06:17There's one of those scenarios that just fit.
06:20Everything just kind of came together.
06:23Scores!
06:24A brilliant move by Phil Esposito!
06:27When you get two guys like that,
06:28it's just virtually impossible to stop them for a full game.
06:31Orr left them with an empty net!
06:33What the trade really did was make Boston.
06:36It made Boston a hell of a team.
06:4117.
06:4217.
06:4317.
06:44Sometimes you trade, you take a calculated risk.
06:47Sometimes you just make a mistake.
06:50Struck him out!
06:51Pedro Martinez is perfect through nine innings.
06:5617.
06:58In November of 1993, the Dodgers,
07:01concerned that Pedro Martinez was on the frail side,
07:04traded the young right-hander to Montreal
07:05for second baseman Delano DeShields.
07:07In three seasons with L.A., DeShields hit .241.
07:11Martinez, meanwhile, began to compile a Hall of Fame candidacy.
07:16The Dodgers weren't convinced that he could stand up
07:20to the rigors of a lot of innings at the Major League level.
07:24Good fastball there.
07:26Too small, too skinny.
07:27He won last.
07:28He can't pitch five innings as a starter.
07:32It took me seven years to miss a start.
07:34Under the tutelage of Felipe Alou,
07:37Pedro really blossomed into the pitcher
07:39that he could have become for the Dodgers.
07:42With the Expos, Martinez won his first Cy Young Award.
07:45After being traded to Boston, he won two more.
07:48Then he helped turn the Mets into contenders.
07:50For the three teams in his post-L.A. career,
07:53he's pitched more than 2,500 innings
07:55and fashioned an ERA under three.
07:59It wasn't as if we wanted to trade.
08:02And he won a World Series.
08:04Pedro, the question was, how do we fill a need?
08:08And we felt that we were acquiring one of the top young second basemen.
08:12Unfortunately, from the standpoint of the Dodgers,
08:15it didn't work out that way.
08:2016, 16, 16.
08:23Bagwell didn't look like he was going to be a great prospect.
08:26He hadn't hit with much power in the minor leagues.
08:28Larry Anderson was a very good relief pitcher at that point.
08:31Boston needed him for the pennant drive that year.
08:33And it didn't seem like they had given up that high of a price to get him.
08:37As it turned out, it was one of the worst trades in baseball history.
08:4116, 16.
08:43With a month remaining in the 1990 season,
08:46Boston, wanting a bullpen shore-up as it contended for the ALE's title,
08:50picked up aging reliever Larry Anderson from Houston.
08:53In return, the Astros got a third-base prospect named Jeff Bagwell,
08:58who was languishing behind the hitting machine that was Wade Boggs.
09:03The Red Sox never thought in terms of anything beyond Baggs playing third base.
09:07Well, how is he going to play third base?
09:09Boggs is at third base.
09:10So he's excess baggage.
09:18While Anderson wasn't re-signed by Boston after the 1990 season,
09:22Bagwell switched to first base in 91 by Houston and was the rookie of the year.
09:27Three years later, he was MVP.
09:30Nine times he hit more than 30 homers and scored more than 100 runs,
09:33and eight times he knocked in at least 100 runs and becoming the anchor of the Astros.
09:39Bagwell was not a guy in the very low minors.
09:42Bagwell was a guy they knew was going to be a fine, fine ball player.
09:46When you're trying to get to where you want to go right now,
09:49sometimes these deals are made.
09:51And when they do come back and bite you, boy, you know, people aren't going to forget.
09:57Average 100 runs, 100 RBIs, and 30 homeruns his entire career.
10:13The trade of Fergie Jenkins by the Phillies to the Cubs was all about youth for age.
10:18They call myself, Adolfo Phillips, and John Hernstein in,
10:21and they say there's a five-player deal with the Cubs.
10:24We'd like you to report to the Cubs in 24 hours.
10:29There's a good fastball strike call.
10:3115.
10:34Fergie Jenkins had pitched only 14 innings for the Phillies.
10:38Here's Larry Jackson and Bob Buell in April of 1966.
10:42Jackson and Buell won 47 games combined before retiring.
10:47Jenkins won 147 in his first eight seasons with the Cubs,
10:51six times being a 20-game winner.
10:55When I got traded to the Cubs, I had the opportunity to pitch a lot.
10:58I ended up making a pretty good career out of an opportunity,
11:01and so I took full advantage of it.
11:04I think that that was a big mistake, no question about it.
11:10Jenkins pitched himself into the Hall of Fame.
11:12He finished with 284 wins
11:15and became the seventh pitcher to compile at least 3,000 strikeouts.
11:22Hey!
11:24Struck him out!
11:27Unfortunately, trades are something that you can't foresee,
11:31or you can't foresee the potential of young bloke.
11:33You make your own luck a lot of times.
11:43First trade in history was Ernie Brollio for Lou Brock.
11:47There he goes!
11:48Permit me to read to you the comments of the brain trust of the Chicago Cubs
11:53when they dealt Lou Brock.
11:55I believe this deal puts us in a much better position
11:57to make a run for the flag.
11:59I think this is going to make us more respected.
12:04In June of 1964...
12:08The Cubs were not very much respected for the next 50 years.
12:18The Cardinals were immediately champions in a few years.
12:26Before, the Cubs traded Lou Brock,
12:29who was in his third season as their left fielder,
12:32to the Cards with two others for pitcher Ernie Brollio and two others.
12:36Over the next 103 games,
12:38Brock hit .348 with 33 steals.
12:41It was a taste of the brilliance that would take him to the Hall of Fame.
12:45When I got the call for the trade,
12:47I was shocked that the word trade came up.
12:49I was probably the fifth-hour filler on the team,
12:52Ernie Brollio.
12:54I was in the Major League Pitcher,
12:55but I actually had one of our 60 games in the last three years.
12:58Overall, I thought it was a good trade.
13:00We needed pitching.
13:01We were scoring runs.
13:02And Brollio, coming off the season that he had,
13:06I think it was good.
13:09In his career, Brock banged out over 3,000 hits,
13:12stole over 900 bases, including 118 in 1974,
13:16and helped the Cardinals win two World Series.
13:19Brollio?
13:20Well, he developed arm problems
13:21and went 7-19 in two-plus seasons with the Cubs
13:24before being released.
13:28If you look at the Cardinals' history,
13:30they always had a spirited ball club.
13:33There's one that didn't defeat itself.
13:36You had to beat it to have a guy in the leadoff slot
13:39who could do those things
13:40to raise the level of excitement.
13:41So in the next 17 years,
13:43that's what I did.
13:55I was in my hotel room the night before a game in Houston,
14:02and they showed two or three highlights,
14:03and then they said,
14:05here is the phenomenon from Mississippi Valley State,
14:09Jerry Rice.
14:10Tighten the throw, fly pattern,
14:12Jerry Rice, touchdown!
14:15The greatest young player I have seen.
14:1813.
14:1913.
14:21Jerry Rice's collegiate numbers look too good to be true,
14:24and the competition level at Mississippi Valley State
14:27scared away many pro talent assessors,
14:30but not Bill Walsh.
14:31During the 1985 draft,
14:34the San Francisco coach had his team trade its first-round pick,
14:37number 28 overall,
14:39and a second-round choice,
14:40and swapped third-rounders to move up to number 16.
14:43And with that pick,
14:44the 49ers stole away the most prolific receiver
14:47in NFL history.
14:50Talk about one of the greatest heists of all time
14:53of the 49ers unloading a draft pick to get Jerry Rice.
14:56If you are a pro football scout,
14:59you had to be able to know
15:01that Jerry Rice was this extraordinary football player.
15:07Somebody blew it on that.
15:09Jerry Rice, touchdown!
15:11In Rice's 16 seasons with the 49ers,
15:14he went to the Pro Bowl 12 times.
15:16After finishing his career with the Raiders and Seahawks,
15:19he retired as the only player
15:21to accumulate more than 200 touchdowns
15:23and 20,000 receiving yards.
15:28All alone, Jerry Rice, the ball,
15:31and Steve, and it's Jerry Rice!
15:33Look at his numbers in general.
15:35You gotta kind of giggle.
15:38He was the greatest player of all time at one point.
15:43And I don't care who he played in college,
15:46but he put up amazing numbers,
15:49especially for 11, 12, 13-game season.
15:53Stupid!
15:54There's nobody that's gonna get anywhere close to those records.
15:58You never know how the draft is gonna go.
16:00So, I was doubting myself just a little bit.
16:03Drafted by the 49ers,
16:05and it was like a dream come true.
16:0912!
16:1012!
16:11When you say lefty,
16:14and everyone in both leagues
16:16knows exactly who you're talking about
16:18when it's a pitcher,
16:19the pitcher must be pretty good.
16:2112!
16:23Cardinals owner, Augie Bush,
16:25locked in a contract dispute with Steve Carlton,
16:27unloaded his 20-game winner before the 1972 season,
16:31shipping him to Philadelphia for right-hander Rick Wise.
16:34Lefty promptly won 27 games
16:37with a 1.97 ERA for a last-place club,
16:40earning him the first of his four Cy Young Awards.
16:45At the time,
16:46both having contract disputes,
16:48I'll trade my problem for your problem,
16:50and that's what the Cardinals did,
16:52thinking that they were gonna get equity in the deal,
16:54but they got anything but that.
16:56Rick Wise tried to be a pretty good pitcher,
16:57but Carlton was a Hall of Fame pitcher,
17:00and it definitely was a trade
17:02that went in the Philadelphia Phillies' favor.
17:04Cardinals were competing.
17:05Who gets rid of a World Series winning pitcher
17:10for just some guy?
17:12Meeting at first or second,
17:14you know, they were a really good ball club.
17:15And when I got traded,
17:16I said, well, God, you know,
17:17the Phillies, they don't win anything.
17:20While Wise bounced around to three teams
17:22after a two-year stay with the Cards,
17:24Carlton and his lethal slider
17:26wound up with 329 wins,
17:28and he was one of only four pitchers
17:30with 4,000 strikeouts.
17:34Swing and a miss,
17:35the slider down and in,
17:36and he struck him out.
17:37As a broadcaster,
17:39every time he had the ball,
17:41you got a little bit of extra jump to your step
17:44as you went to the ballpark.
17:46He had one of the greatest work ethics
17:48I've ever seen.
17:49He's one of the strongest human beings
17:50I've ever been around.
17:51He was fabulous to work with.
17:53I think to this day,
17:55Cardinal fans are kind of wondering,
17:56why in the world did this all come about?
18:0111-11.
18:04Even though he hit .296 with 33 homers
18:07and 113 RBI in 1965,
18:10Frank Robinson was thought to be on the decline
18:19by Cincinnati GM Bill DeWitt.
18:21That December, he sent Robinson to Baltimore
18:24for pitchers Milt Pappas and Jack Baldshin
18:26and outfielder Dick Simpson.
18:29Robinson proceeded to carry the Orioles
18:31to a sweep in the World Series.
18:34Bill DeWitt, the owner of the Cincinnati Reds,
18:36was quoted as saying
18:38Frank Robinson was an old 30.
18:40He didn't say that.
18:41What he said is Frank Robinson is not a young 30,
18:43but Robinson was aged in good wood.
18:45He goes for Milt Pappas,
18:47and Pappas didn't have a bad time in Cincinnati.
18:51Unfortunately, he gained the designation
18:53as the principal guy traded for Frank Robinson.
18:55Frank Robinson, the Reds were wrong
18:57about what he had left to offer,
19:00and the Orioles needed that one extra guy.
19:05Mark speaks for itself in the late 60s
19:07and the early 70s while Frank was there.
19:09What an amazing deal by the Baltimore Orioles.
19:12Robinson on the right hand batter.
19:13Long down, the left finger,
19:15way back, way back.
19:16Kiss it, good back.
19:17One run.
19:17In his first season in Baltimore,
19:19Robinson hit .316 with 49 homers
19:21and 122 RBI.
19:23That was worth the triple crown,
19:25and in the process,
19:26he became the first player
19:27to be named MVP in both leagues.
19:30He would finish his Hall of Fame career
19:31with 586 home runs.
19:33A year after the disastrous trade had been made,
19:36DeWitt, who also owned the Reds,
19:38sold the team.
19:40Lessons learned,
19:41which is always a good exercise.
19:43The great players are few and far between,
19:45and if you have an opportunity to get one
19:47or if you have one,
19:48hang on to him.
19:51Tag, tag, tag.
19:54Christy Matthews,
19:55that's one of the all-time boneheaded trades
19:57of all time.
19:58It kind of gets lost because of the time element
20:00and how many years have gone by,
20:01but this is a guy who won 373 games
20:03and one of the immortals of all time
20:05and just shows that GMs today
20:07just don't make mistakes.
20:08They made them in the old days, too.
20:10Hmm.
20:11Tag.
20:12After the 1900 season,
20:14Cincinnati sent young right-hander
20:15Christy Matthewsson
20:17to the New York Giants
20:17for sore-armed Amos Ruzzi,
20:19who hadn't pitched in two years
20:21and would never win a game for the Reds.
20:25Well, he racked up 20 wins
20:26in his first year with the Giants.
20:31Matthewsson had the ability
20:32to learn a new pitch instantly.
20:36Show him how you throw it,
20:37and he would throw it.
20:39And he had such a fine gamesman's mind
20:42that the pitch would go right
20:43into his repertoire.
20:5516 or 17 years.
20:59Baffling hitters with this killer fadeaway,
21:02Matthewsson won at least 22 games
21:04for 12 straight seasons.
21:05In 1908, he won 37,
21:09which remains the National League
21:10single-season record.
21:13Between 1900 and 1920,
21:15he was the best pitcher in baseball.
21:16He made the Giants,
21:17New York Giants,
21:18the first super team in baseball.
21:20What's ironic is
21:21that Matthewsson returned
21:23to the Cincinnati Reds
21:25as a player-manager in 1916
21:26and won one game
21:28for the Cincinnati Reds,
21:29which was one more game
21:30than Amos Ruzzi
21:31ever won for them.
21:33Hmm.
21:43With the 13th pick
21:44in the 1996 NBA draft,
21:48the Charlotte Hornet.
21:49Kobe Bryant for Vlade Divac.
21:52A reminder,
21:53this came out in 2006.
21:55This was before Kobe went
21:57to three straight finals
22:01as a team leader.
22:03So what'd he eat even worse
22:05after this came out?
22:11Select Kobe Bryant
22:12from Lower Merion High School
22:15in Pennsylvania.
22:16Nine, nine.
22:19Conventional wisdom at the time
22:21was that the NBA
22:21was no place for a teenager
22:23who would get bounced
22:24more often than the ball.
22:27But when it came
22:28to Kobe Bryant,
22:29Jerry West,
22:30the Lakers' vice president
22:31of basketball operations,
22:32saw what others didn't.
22:34The Hornets
22:35were in need
22:36of a center
22:37and it seemed like
22:39the way to go
22:40was to get Vlade Divac
22:42from the Lakers
22:42for Kobe Bryant.
22:44As I was drafted,
22:45I'm on the phone
22:45with Dave Cowens
22:46and he's like,
22:47well,
22:48you don't have
22:48too much use for you
22:49here in Charlotte.
22:51So we're taking a trade
22:52and, you know,
22:53to Los Angeles
22:54I was, okay,
22:56all right.
22:57West called me
22:58right afterwards
22:59and said,
22:59Chick,
23:00I got a guy
23:01I gotta have.
23:02And I said,
23:03who was it?
23:03And he told me his name.
23:04I said,
23:04I never heard of him.
23:05He said,
23:06he's just coming
23:06out of high school.
23:07I said,
23:07you gotta be crazy.
23:08The thing
23:09that most impressed
23:10me about him
23:11was his ability
23:12to articulate
23:13the reasons
23:14why he wanted
23:15to play in the league.
23:16In the face
23:17of outrageous hype
23:18and severe expectations,
23:20Bryant made the transition
23:21almost immediately.
23:22His game,
23:23a combination
23:24of explosiveness
23:25and elegance
23:25that drew comparisons
23:26to Michael Jordan.
23:28Bryant won three rings
23:29while teamed
23:30with Shaquille O'Neal.
23:31And in 2006,
23:32he led the league
23:33in scoring
23:33and in one game
23:35rang up 81 points.
23:37I don't think
23:38there was a person
23:38when he was traded
23:40that didn't say,
23:41one day,
23:43you're gonna say
23:44Kobe Bryant's gonna be
23:44one of the top players
23:45to ever play the game.
23:46you give up Vlade Divac,
23:47who's a very good,
23:49serviceable center
23:50for one of the most
23:53dangerous offensive weapons
23:55in the game.
23:57That shows the genius
23:59of Jerry West.
24:04Eight, eight, eight, eight.
24:08Got him on a call,
24:09third strike.
24:10He was kind of
24:11the car keys reliever.
24:13When Eckersley
24:14comes to the mound,
24:15people start reaching
24:16for their car keys.
24:19As soon as he came
24:20in the game,
24:21the guys that wrote
24:21the newspapers
24:22just started doing
24:22the story right there.
24:29In 1986,
24:30Dennis Eckersley
24:30was a floundering
24:316-11 starter
24:32with a 4.57 ERA
24:34for the Cubs.
24:35The following spring,
24:37he was traded
24:37with a reserve infielder
24:39to Oakland
24:39for three minor leaguers,
24:40none of whom
24:41ever even made it
24:42to the majors.
24:45When they said,
24:47you're going to Oakland,
24:48I remember the last
24:49thing I said.
25:02History of baseball
25:03that they got
25:04these three guys
25:05for an eventual
25:06Hall of Famer
25:06and these three guys
25:07collectively were never
25:08able to play
25:09one day in the
25:10major leagues.
25:11He got him
25:12and the ball game
25:13is over.
25:14With Oakland,
25:15Eckersley evolved
25:16into the ninth inning
25:17only closer
25:18that has since
25:18become a universal
25:19tactic.
25:20In one five-year
25:21stretch,
25:22he averaged
25:2344 saves a season.
25:24On his way
25:25to the Hall of Fame,
25:25he was voted
25:26the AL MVP
25:27and Cy Young
25:28in 1992.
25:29He was so dominant
25:30because he had
25:31such great control.
25:32Almost looked like
25:33he just was looking
25:33through one eye.
25:34He closed the other eye.
25:35It looked like he was
25:36shooting a gun.
25:37For those years
25:38that he was at the top
25:39of his game
25:39as a closer,
25:40he was unhittable.
25:43If you took a lead
25:43into the ninth inning,
25:44Eckersley was going
25:45to bring it home.
25:47Basically two words
25:48explain them.
25:49Game over.
25:537-7-7-7.
25:56Big Wilt Chamberlain
25:59Wilt Chamberlain
26:00played his first
26:00three NBA seasons
26:01in his hometown
26:02of Philadelphia
26:03before the Warriors
26:04relocated to San Francisco
26:05in 1962.
26:07In January of 1965,
26:09the league's most
26:10dominant offensive force
26:12was traded back
26:13to Philadelphia,
26:14new home of the
26:14former Syracuse Nationals.
26:16The price for the stilt?
26:18Connie Durking,
26:19Paul Newman,
26:20Lee Schaefer,
26:21and Cash.
26:22They said there was
26:23a big trade involving
26:24Wilt Chamberlain
26:26and three guys
26:26named Joe.
26:29And myself
26:30and Lee Schaefer
26:31and Paul Newman
26:32were the three guys
26:34named Joe.
26:34What happened was
26:35he was out in San Francisco
26:37and the team
26:38was not doing very well.
26:39It was during
26:40last place
26:41and I think
26:42they must have decided
26:46if they traded Wilt.
26:47So are you happy
26:48or sad about it?
26:51Mixed, mixed emotions.
26:52Actually, I'll be like
26:54Tony Bennett
26:55leaving my heart
26:55here in San Francisco
26:56because I fell in love
26:57with the city.
26:58When the trade was made
26:59to bring him back
27:00to Philadelphia
27:01from San Francisco,
27:03I mean,
27:04the media just went crazy.
27:05I mean,
27:06he was like,
27:07for a couple of weeks,
27:08it was the number one
27:09front page story
27:10in the city.
27:11Ladies and gentlemen!
27:13Oh, man.
27:16Well, the Warriors,
27:17the only reason
27:18this isn't hired
27:19is because the Warriors
27:20ended up with
27:21Nate Thurman
27:22who was backing up Wilt
27:23and then they drafted
27:24Rick Berry.
27:25They got to the finals
27:27in 67.
27:28Who beats them?
27:31The Sixers
27:32with Wilt Chamberlain.
27:36And let's welcome back
27:40Wilt Chamberlain!
27:44Chamberlain averaged
27:4524 points
27:45and 24 boards
27:46in leading the 76ers
27:48to a then-record
27:4968-13 mark
27:50and the 1967 NBA title.
27:53He was traded
27:54to the Lakers
27:54a year later
27:55and helped them
27:56win the championship
27:57in 1972.
27:59Wilt's name
27:59is still splashed
28:00all over
28:01the NBA record book.
28:06Six, six, six.
28:12The Express
28:13has done it
28:14once again.
28:15People remember
28:15where they were
28:16when Kennedy was shot.
28:17People remember
28:18where they were
28:18when Neil Armstrong
28:19stepped on the moon.
28:20I remember that.
28:21I also remember
28:22when
28:23Ryan was traded.
28:25No, hit him!
28:26Nolan Ryan!
28:27I personally
28:29will never forgive
28:31the Mets
28:31for trading Nolan Ryan.
28:34Six.
28:36Nolan Ryan
28:37won it out of New York
28:38in December of 1971.
28:39The Mets
28:40granted a wish
28:41their fans
28:41would forever regret.
28:43The hard-throwing righty
28:45was shipped
28:45to the Angels
28:46with three forgettable
28:47players for infield.
28:49You know,
28:50the only reason
28:50this isn't higher
28:51is because
28:52the Mets
28:53really
28:55did eventually
28:56win a championship
28:57in 86
28:59and Nolan Ryan
29:00never won another one.
29:02So it's kind of
29:03what did they
29:04really lose?
29:07fielder Jim Fergosi
29:09who was traded away
29:10in 1973.
29:14You don't trade
29:15a young pitcher
29:17of that caliber
29:18no matter how many
29:18young pitchers you have.
29:19The day when he was
29:20traded from the Mets
29:21is rude
29:22and there are
29:22three organizations
29:23who feel like
29:24they were blessed
29:24to have him.
29:25A lot of people say
29:26well, you know,
29:27Nolan Ryan
29:27couldn't pitch in New York
29:29and he couldn't take
29:31the pressures of the city.
29:33Those things
29:33had nothing to do with it.
29:37Ryan remained a power pitcher
29:38well into his 40s.
29:40His flame ball
29:41and drop off
29:41the table curve
29:42produced more strikeouts
29:43than anyone in history.
29:45He won 295 games
29:47with the Angels,
29:48Astros and Rangers
29:49giving him a total
29:50of 324 wins
29:52and specialized in the
29:53no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
29:56That's 7.
29:58I think I only had
30:00one 20-game hitting streak
30:02in my life
30:03and he stopped mine.
30:04He did it!
30:05Oh, but Ryan
30:06has a no-hit,
30:07no-round game
30:08and they swarmed
30:09from the 26th!
30:132 is historic.
30:16He hit it 7 times.
30:19MLB record for strikeouts.
30:21Nobody's doing that
30:22because nobody pitches
30:259 innings anymore.
30:31This rope
30:323, 4, 5, 6, 7
30:36no-hitters
30:37is almost beyond belief.
30:465-5-5
30:47This may not be
30:48the worst trade
30:49of all time
30:51but if it's not
30:53in the top 3 of 4
30:54I don't know what is.
30:56Last up
30:57right at
30:58Bill Lambert's face.
31:01The Warriors
31:02had Robert Parrish
31:03who was a great player
31:04but he was an
31:05outside center
31:06a high post guy.
31:08They traded
31:09the third pick
31:10who turned out
31:11to be Kevin McHale
31:12and Robert Parrish
31:13to the Celtics
31:14for the number 1 pick
31:15who turned out
31:16to be Joe Barry
31:17Carroll
31:17because they wanted
31:18Joe Barry Carroll
31:20Joe barely cares.
31:22That big inside center.
31:24Basically what you're saying is
31:25we got Joe Barry Carroll
31:27you got
31:29two
31:30Hall of Fame
31:32big men
31:33Parrish
31:34and McHale
31:35that's wrong.
31:37That's just
31:37flat out wrong.
31:39After Celtics
31:40President
31:41Red Auerbach
31:41generated this
31:421980 deal
31:43Boston
31:44dominated the East
31:45in the 80s
31:45and won
31:46three NBA championships.
31:48McHale was a
31:48seven-time
31:49all-star
31:49Parrish
31:50a nine-time
31:51all-star
31:52and one of the
31:53greatest players
31:54in league history.
31:57I was happy
31:57about the trade
31:58when I
31:58came to the Celtics
32:01from the Golden State Warriors
32:02I had to tip my head
32:03to Red
32:03another smart move
32:05getting me here.
32:06Red Auerbach
32:07is a genius
32:09for those people
32:11who may not have
32:12caught his act
32:13in the 60s
32:15this was that
32:16perfect little thing
32:17to remind folks
32:18just how
32:19shrewd a businessman
32:20he is.
32:21It's the old cliche
32:22he's playing chess
32:23they're playing checkers.
32:30the Herschel Walker
32:32trade ranks
32:32as one of the most
32:33stunning in NFL history
32:34and it turned out
32:35it was a catastrophic
32:36trade.
32:38I gotta believe
32:39that Jimmy Johnson
32:39you know
32:40till this day
32:40is laughing somewhere.
32:42Four.
32:42Four.
32:44In October of 1989
32:46believing his team
32:47was only a running back
32:48away from a title
32:49Vikings GM Mike Lynn
32:51pried Herschel Walker
32:52away from the Cowboys.
32:54The cost
32:54was horrendous
32:55five players
32:57plus six draft picks
32:58Walker never did get
33:00Minnesota to the Super Bowl
33:01and Dallas
33:02they built a dynasty.
33:05How could this only be
33:06number four?
33:08The only thing
33:09Mike didn't understand
33:10was that Jimmy
33:10before he ever
33:11made the trade
33:12knew he was getting
33:14all the players
33:14and all the picks.
33:16The multiple picks
33:18gave us a mentality
33:19of risk taking
33:20that we would not
33:22have had
33:23had we had
33:24the normal picks
33:25to work with.
33:26It seemed like
33:26an okay idea
33:27at the time
33:27and then you look back
33:29and you're like
33:29oh my god
33:30what were they thinking
33:30that's the worst trade
33:31you know
33:32how could they do that?
33:34Walker played
33:3542 games for the Vikings
33:36and in his best
33:37of three seasons
33:38there managed
33:38only 825 rushing yards.
33:41What the Cowboys
33:42received became
33:42the foundation
33:43for three Super Bowl
33:44championship teams.
33:46To replace Walker
33:47they drafted
33:48some guy named
33:49Emmitt Smith
33:49who only became
33:50the greatest ground gainer
33:51in the history
33:52of the NFL.
33:53The fact that they got
33:54Kevin Smith
33:56and Emmitt Smith
33:57and Russell Maryland
33:58and Darren Woodson
33:59as an offshoot
34:00of those picks
34:00made this
34:01the team
34:02of the 90s.
34:03They made the
34:04Dallas Cowboys
34:05and the world champions
34:06by giving up
34:07basically a whole draft.
34:09Jimmy was a good
34:10football coach
34:11great personnel guy.
34:14I ended up
34:14with money
34:15they ended up
34:15with Super Bowl ring
34:16so you decide
34:17what do you want
34:17worse
34:18Super Bowl ring
34:19or money.
34:26Atlanta has selected
34:28Brett Favre
34:29quarterback
34:30Southern Mississippi
34:31That's Favre.
34:32They couldn't even
34:33get his name right
34:34because nobody
34:35knew who he was.
34:39Brett Favre
34:40was a nobody
34:41with a funny name.
34:42That year in Atlanta
34:44no one called my name
34:45no one cared
34:46you know
34:47guys would pass
34:48right by me
34:49you know
34:50three
34:52As a rookie
34:53with Atlanta
34:53in 1991
34:54Brett Favre
34:55played two games
34:56threw four passes
34:57completed none
34:58had two picked off.
35:00Coach Jerry Glanville
35:01couldn't wait
35:02to dump the young
35:02quarterback
35:03out of Southern Miss
35:04the Packers
35:05couldn't wait
35:05to pick him up
35:06a bargain
35:07in exchange
35:07for the 17th pick
35:09in the 92 draft.
35:13He was rotting
35:14on the bench
35:15over there
35:15in Atlanta
35:16and going
35:17nowhere fast
35:18and
35:19we traded
35:21a number one pick
35:22for this
35:23Brett Favre guy.
35:25No one knew
35:26including myself
35:26what was to come.
35:29Favre
35:29gunning it
35:30to the goal line
35:31and caught
35:32by Tremoran
35:33by Brooks
35:34caught by Mays
35:35touchdown.
35:37Favre became
35:38the only three-time
35:39MVP in league history
35:41the NFL record holder
35:42for career completions
35:44and has started
35:44more consecutive games
35:46than any quarterback
35:47ever.
35:48As for the Falcons
35:49they spent their pick
35:50on running back
35:50Tony Smith
35:51who played
35:52three generic seasons.
36:00Yeah,
36:03eventually the Falcons
36:04got to a Super Bowl
36:05with Chris Chandler.
36:08They could do that
36:09with Chris Chandler.
36:10Imagine what they
36:11could have done
36:11with Favre.
36:14Kind of one of those
36:15who look like Tarzan
36:16who play like Jane
36:17kind of guys
36:18who didn't like
36:18a whole lot of contact.
36:20He got in behind
36:21Pinton.
36:21He wasn't that talented.
36:23Kind of one of those.
36:24He got in behind
36:25Pinton
36:26but couldn't
36:27spring loose.
36:28I didn't know
36:29where Green Bay was
36:30but I knew it was up
36:31north and I knew
36:32it was cold
36:32but I knew
36:34about the history
36:35and tradition
36:36and I said
36:36hey,
36:37this is a great
36:37opportunity for me.
36:44Two,
36:45two,
36:45two.
36:48The newest Laker.
36:49Fred Favre ran
36:50for more yards
36:51than Tony Smith did
36:52and he's a quarterback.
36:54Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
36:57Hope I can live up
36:58to the build up.
36:59I think I can.
37:01I'd like to try
37:02and it's nice to be here.
37:04Kareem
37:04kind of redefined
37:06in Los Angeles
37:08how dominant
37:10you can be.
37:18In his first
37:19five NBA seasons,
37:20Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
37:21won three MVP awards
37:22and a championship
37:23but he won it
37:24out of Milwaukee anyway.
37:25A year later
37:26in 1975,
37:28Bucks GM
37:28Wayne Embry
37:29sent him to L.A.
37:30for Dave Myers,
37:31Elmore Smith,
37:32Brian Winters,
37:33and Junior Bridgman.
37:34Not Manhattan
37:35for a handful of beads
37:36but close.
37:42It was time for me to leave.
37:43I don't think
37:44that the Bucks
37:45had it together
37:45to put together
37:47another great team
37:48like they did
37:48and they kind of felt
37:50it was time to let me go
37:51so it worked out
37:53for everybody.
37:53We're going to lose him
37:54as a free agent
37:54so we had to do something.
37:56As a result,
37:57we had the best deal
37:57with the Lakers
37:58so we ended up
38:00dealing him to L.A.
38:02In 1979,
38:03the Lakers drafted
38:04Magic Johnson.
38:05The Lakers won
38:08five championships
38:09and the Bucks
38:12didn't go back
38:12to the finals
38:13for 45, 46 years.
38:18And the veteran center
38:19and the rookie point guard
38:21teamed to form Showtime.
38:23Abdul-Jabbar
38:23and his skyhook
38:24would score more points
38:25than anyone in NBA history
38:26and collect five more wins.
38:30That also launched
38:32a Laker dynasty
38:33and my God,
38:35you ended up having
38:36Kareem and Magic together.
38:38Swing left,
38:39right hand,
38:39well,
38:39putter,
38:40good!
38:40There's only one
38:41little Alcindra Kareem
38:42Abdul-Jabbar
38:43and so that trade
38:44at the time it happened
38:46I kind of questioned
38:47the players coming back
38:49in that deal.
38:50The Lakers certainly got
38:51a lot better in the deal.
39:04Bill Russell wore that Celtic green
39:07and helped that team
39:12dominate,
39:14dominate the league.
39:20You talk about highway robbery.
39:23When I was working
39:24for Time and Sports Illustrated,
39:26we constantly sent memos
39:28back to New York
39:28saying you should think
39:29of putting this guy
39:30from San Francisco
39:31on the cover.
39:32And they'd come back
39:33and say,
39:34yeah,
39:34but we got the box score
39:35last night,
39:35he got six points.
39:37And we'd say,
39:38yeah,
39:38but did you notice
39:39the other team
39:39only got 42?
39:43In 1956,
39:44the Celtics coach
39:45and GM,
39:45the wily red outback,
39:46believed he needed
39:47a defender
39:48and a rebounder
39:48to make his high-octane
39:49team complete.
39:50He wanted Bill Russell,
39:52whom the St. Louis Hawks
39:53took with the second pick
39:54of the draft.
39:55The price was steep.
39:57Six-time All-Star
39:57Ed McCauley
39:58and the rights
39:59to All-American Cliff Hagan.
40:00It turned out
40:01to be a steal.
40:07Historically,
40:07you go,
40:08what a terrible deal.
40:10But he gets
40:11Ed McCauley,
40:13he gets Cliff Hagan,
40:14and he gets
40:15the 58 NBA title.
40:18The trade-off
40:19doesn't look so good
40:20in the history books
40:20because St. Louis
40:22has a page.
40:23The Celtics
40:25have volumes
40:27and volumes
40:28and volumes.
40:29They have a dynasty.
40:31The Bucs selects
40:32once again
40:33the world's...
40:34At a certain point,
40:35it can't be number one
40:37because
40:40we saw
40:41a two through four.
40:43The Bucs
40:44had not won anything yet.
40:46The Falcons
40:47have never won anything.
40:48The Vikings
40:49have never won anything.
40:52The first two years,
40:53the Celtics
40:54won a championship,
40:56but then they
40:57lost to the Hawks.
41:00So,
41:00the trade really
41:01wasn't that bad
41:02in the first two years.
41:05Can't be number one
41:06if the team
41:07won the losing end
41:08with a championship
41:10right after.
41:20Russell was a five-time
41:21MVP
41:22and averaged
41:2222 boards a game.
41:24He was the ultimate
41:25team player
41:25snuffing shots
41:26and igniting
41:27fast breaks.
41:29Let's say you had
41:29a choice of knee rebounding
41:31or Russell rebounding
41:32and starting the fast break.
41:33I don't think
41:34there would be any doubt.
41:35I would even want Russell.
41:36Lays it up
41:37and blocked by Russell.
41:39He made shot blocking
41:41an art
41:41and proved
41:43that quickness
41:44and finesse
41:45and brains
41:47was a match
41:48for Brawn.
41:51His last two
41:51at San Francisco
41:52he won the NCAA
41:53title twice.
41:54He went to the Olympics
41:55and won the gold medal.
41:56Then he came to Boston
41:58and played 13 years
41:59in the NBA
41:59and they won 11 championships.
42:01So in 15 years
42:02at the top
42:03of the basketball world
42:04he had 13 championships
42:05and a gold medal.
42:07Jordan and nobody else
42:08has done that.
42:09He wins.
42:11He's a winner.
42:16So ESPN Classic
42:17has raided the robbers
42:18and the victims
42:19in the NBA.
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