Magic
Magic Johnson is the better player because all though their stats are basically even and Chris Paul is having a career year, he has yet to do what Magic Johnson has done which is win a championship.
Yes
The 1968 National League rookie of the year winner was Johnny Bench. You can only win the rookie of the year one time. Your rookie season.
According to the Big Ten Network, no he did not.
1968
In 1993, Jeff Gordon won the Nascar Winston Cup Rookie of the Year Award. He did not win a race in his rookie season.
Tony Sipp
Yes - in 2006
1992, after he won the olympic gold medal with the Dream Team in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics
Justin Verlander was the last Detroit Tiger to win the Rookie of the year award, in 2006.
No. Allen Iverson won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award for the 1996-97 season.