Athletes that are Best Remembered with One Franchise, but Won a Title with Another
You think about an athlete who is attached to one franchise forever (ex. Joe Montana 49ers, Michael Jordan Bulls). But those athletes also played with another team. Then, there are those athletes who have been associated with one franchise for long but yet didn't win a title until they moved to a different team. These are the athletes who you will remember much of their careers having highlights with one franchise, but have a ring elsewhere.
Justin Brooks Verlander is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. After 13 seasons played as a Detroit Tiger, Verlander was traded to the Houston Astros, where he would win his first title in 2017.
Bourque spent 20 seasons with the Boston Bruins before winning his first Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche.
A devastating defensive end, Reggie White made a name for himself as a Philadelphia Eagle. But then, he signed a free agency deal with the Green Bay Packers in 1992. Four years later, he's a Super Bowl champion with the Pack.
Oscar Palmer Robertson, nicknamed "The Big O", is an American retired National Basketball Association player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks. Oscar Robertson spent the first decade of his career with the Cincinnati Royals. But the problem was the Celtics were always in the way of his championship hopes. So in 1971, Robertson would be traded to the Milwaukee Bucks and would win his NBA title.
Clyde Austin "The Glide" Drexler is an American retired professional basketball player. During his career, he was a ten-time All-Star, and named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Drafted and playing 12 seasons with the Portland Trailblazers, which included two trips to the NBA Finals, Drexler's third trip to the finals finally got him a ring. The only difference? He was a Houston Rocket by then.
Gary Dwayne Payton Sr. is an American retired professional basketball player. He started at the point guard position. He is best known for his 13-year tenure with the Seattle SuperSonics, and holds Seattle franchise records in points, assists, and steals. Payton is without a retired jersey because the Seattle Supersonics are no longer in existence. But even so, his one NBA title happened down in Miami.
Having spent a majority of his career with the Los Angeles Kings, Robitaille would win his first Stanley Cup in 2002 as a member of the Detroit Red Wings.
Ironically, Gilmour won a Stanley Cup as a member of the Calgary Flames to begin his career. But then, he spent the prime of his career with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Jason Frederick Kidd is an American basketball coach and former player. He was the head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. Although Kidd would have two stints with the Dallas Mavericks, which included an NBA title in 2011, his best days as a player came when he was with the New Jersey Nets.
A career Red Sox, Boggs made the big transition to their hated rival New York Yankees, where he would finally win a World Series title in 1996.