In terms of drafting, I don’t think so. It was unprecedented, and hasn’t been done since (and likely won’t be for a LONG time). Lightning in a bottle.

Damn the Sonics must have been a crazy dynasty with that drafting

The cavs had the number 1 pick 3 out of 4 years and they got Kyrie and…………………..

Roy, Aldridge, Oden in another universe

2009-2012 the warriors took Steph, Klay, Dray and Harrison Barnes

1984-1987 the bulls took MJ, Pippen, Horace Grant, Charles Oakley

OKC still has the best stretch, but I doubt any others compare with the Bulls and Warriors 4 year runs in terms of championship equity delivered to the team they were drafted by.

The Mavs in ‘18 drafted two all-NBA PGs that they decided they were better off without.

Wemby, Harper and castle is a pretty nice run.

Diffferent sport, but the penguins drafted

2003- Marc Andre fleury
2004- evgeni malkin
2005- Sydney Crosby (bonus for Kris letang in the second round here)

All 4 of these guys are hall of famers, Crosby top 5 oat, malkin top 15ish.

They had more top 4 picks in 3 years than the Knicks have had in the last 40 years.

Probably not, but while it’s too early to tell Wemby-Castle-Harper could easily enter the conversation. 

Wemby is already there. Harper looks like a locked in future star. Castle’s stock is probably “lowest” of the three and he put up 17-7-5 with very promising defense in his second year. 

Shaq and Penny would be the comp, historically speaking

Should’ve been Ben Simmons, Embiid and Fultz

In the NHL the penguins did something similar in 2003, 2004, 2005. 2 MVP’s and the goalie won the goalie award.

McGrady 97
Vince 98
Two HOFs

Lakers drafting Magic & Worthy within two years of each other is probably the only other similar example, though Worthy obviously never won MVP.

I mean drafting that high in the lottery consecutive years sure did help, although Westbrook wasn’t too high on other teams radars

Process Sixers had a chance since they had a bunch of top three picks in a row. Ended withe jahil Okafor, Embiid, Ben Simmons and Fultz

Not an exact 1-to1, but: in 1979 the Celtics draft Larry Bird. In 1980, they traded the Nos. 1 and 13 picks in the draft for Robert Parish and No. 3, which they used to draft Kevin McHale. In 2 drafts they got an entire Big 3 that won 3 titles

The Bucks have drafted the most MVPs: Kareem, Dr J, Dirk, and Giannis. (Dr J and Dirk were both traded on draft day.) If you say “Milwaukie,” it’s five MVPs because Bob Pettit was drafted by the Milwaukie Hawks, who later moved to St. Louis and then Atlanta.

The Warriors drafted ⁴⁄₅ of the starting lineup of their 73 win team themselves over the course of four years, that’s not three-MVPs insane but pretty damn good.

Not in basketball. The closest I can think of is the As with b2b2b ROTY with Mcguire, Canseco and Weiss. I think the Dodgers also had a run, but I hate them so not going to look it up

The Spurs and the Wolves both pulled off b2b ROTY, and Harper was definitely the playoff ROTY and the wolves followed up with Ant a few years later.

You just saw it with San Antonio, potentially (Wemby, Castle, Harper).

It’s not in the same league, but the warriors drafting Curry, Klay, and Dray in ³⁄₄ years is pretty impressive. Top 12 player ever, top 4 shooter ever, and top 5 defensive player ever.

Bro I don’t know if there’s been 3 MVPs drafted back to back to back since then

Let alone the same team

The Spurs drafting Wemby, Castle, and Harper in consecutive years

I think the only thing that comes close is the Magic drafting Shaq and Penny, and the Warriors drafting Curry, Klay, and Draymond from 2009-2012. I think we’ll be talking about the Spurs drafts from 2023-2025 in the future like this. The Mavericks also did well drafting Luka and Brunson in the same draft.

The Trail Blazers deserve an honorable mention for their drafting in 2006 and 2007, and the Grizzlies from 2018-2020.

Luka and Brunson to the same team in the same draft gotta be close?

The Celtics drafted Tom Heinsohn (territorial), Bill Russell (draft day trade) and K.C. Jones (2d round) in the same day in 1956. One year later, they drafted Sam Jones.

That’s 4 of their HoF players drafted in two years.

They also drafted Satch Sanders in 1960 and Havlicek in 1962 (two more HoF).

A few decades later, they drafted Cedric Maxwell (Finals MVP) in 1977 and Bird in 1978, and then acquired during the 1980 draft day Kevin McHale (3rd pick) and Robert Parish in a trade for the first pick (which became Joe Barry Carroll for the Warriors).

That’s how you build dynasties.

Best individual draft stretch ever, but didn’t build a better team in that stretch compared to the bulls and warriors.

Jim Jackson was having a great career before being derailed by injuries.
Jamal Mashburn
Jason Kidd
Three in a row!

if it happens again it’s probably be the Thunder again given all the draft picks Pretti’s sitting on. could also squint see the Spurs getting this given how much potential their young roster has, but the only one that’s really screaming future league MVP as of now is Wemby

tbh that is insane and fr probably never happens again with how the draft lottery works now

Brown & Tatum is the only thing that comes close.

Roy, Aldridge, & Oden is a big what-if too.

Castle and Harper probably won’t win mvps but the Wemby-castle-Harper back to back to back is 3 potentially elite 2 way players (one of which is practically guarenteed to win an mvp eventually)

Penguins drafted 3 straight hall of famers at 1, 2, and 1. Fleury, Malkin, Crosby.

Not entirely the same, but the Seattle Mariners had A-Rod, Ken Griffey Jr., and Randy Johnson on the same team.

Red Auerbach was the owner of the NBA for like 30 years

Not exactly the same but iirc the cavs got the number one pick in the draft 3 out of 4 years. Meanwhile my kings are approaching 40 years without a number 1 overall pick. 

Pain.

There is a chance we may look back at “Wemby, castle, harper” picks by the spurs as just as good

Dubs are pretty close – really hit on the 2009, 2011, and 2012 drafts, with 2010 being a stinker

2009 01.07: Curry, S (Davidson)

2010 01.06: Udoh, E. (Baylor)

• no clue who this guy is, and I went to college in Texas…

2011: 01.11: Thompson, K (Wazzu)

2012: 01.07: Barnes, H (UNC)

2012: 01.30: Ezeli, F (Vandy)

2012: 02.35: Green, D (Michigan State)

he later dafted two all stars in the same draft

Steelers 1974 draft class

Weirdly enough when the Seattle gets a new Sonics team they will acquire all the original Sonics history back and would retroactively make OKC drafting 3 straight MVPs a non real story anymore haha

Seattle would be the team that drafted 2 back to back MVPs and OKC would only be credited with drafting 1 mvp.

Between 2010 and 2020 they won all but two of the scoring titles (and all but one for total points in season). On top of that you had two of them lead the league in assists all but two times between 2017 and 2023 (and one of the times they missed it was because they were playing on the same team again). Also incredible that Harden left in 2012, and yet both Russ and KD got to play with him again while they were still All-NBA level talents. 

Penguins got to draft Malkin and Crosby in back to back years.

Joel, Nerlens, Jah, Markelle.

I mean Westbrook’s probably third best in this list. I can’t think of a team ever where their third best pick (in three years) is Westbrook level. 

If you told me a team drafted a MVP for 3 straights years, I’d assume they won a title or two.

funnily enough, when the expansion happens and Seattle takes back their history, officially this streak would end too.

Maybe not MVP winners, but here’s some other notable combos:

• Celts, 1957-58: Tom Heinsohn, KC Jones, Sam Jones
• Celts, 1969-72: Jo Jo White, Dave Cowens, [nobody of note in 1971], Paul Westphal
• Celts, 1996-98: Antoine Walker, Chauncey Billups, Paul Pierce
• Bulls, 2006-08: LaMarcus Aldridge, Joakim Noah, Derrick Rose
• Bullets, 1965-68: Jerry Sloan, Jack Marin, Earl Monroe, Wes Unseld
• Blazers, 1983-86: Clyde Drexler, SAM BOWIE LOL, Terry Porter, Arvydas Sabonis, Drazen Petrovic
• Sonics, 1987-90: Scottie Pippen, [1988], Shawn Kemp, Gary Payton
• Nuggets, 2013-17: Rudy Goober, Nikola Jokic, [2015], Jamal Murray, Donovan Mitchell
• Jazz, 1982-85: Dominique Wilkins, Mark Eaton, [1983], John Stockton, Karl Malone
• Warriors, 1985-89: Chris Mullin, [1986], Sarunas Marciulionis, Mitch Richmond, Tim Hardaway Sr.
• Warriors: 2009-12: you know exactly which three guys they drafted in those four years [nothing much happened in 2010]
• TWolves, 2009: two point guards that weren’t Steph curry immediately before the Warriors took Steph Curry
• Grizzles, 2006-08: Kyle Lowry, Mike Conley, Kevin Love
• Rockets, 1968-70: Elvin Hayes, [1969], Rudy Tomjanovic, Calvin Murphy
• Rockets, 1983-85: Ralph Sampson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris for some reason

(Some of those guys were immediately traded, but that’s neither here nor there)

The Red Sox drafted 2 MVPs in the same year. 1989 Mo Vaughn and Jeff Bagwell.

Have you seen this year’s HOF class? Everyone is gonna make the HOF

Not exactly the same, but the Mavs drafted Dirk and traded for Nash in the same draft. 2 future MVPs.