The League: Magic Speaks About Lebron & Jordan Comparison
Stephen A Smith Radio Interview With Magic Johnson:
Magic
I think Lebron is just the best all-around player we have in the game today.Stephen A Smith
Be careful about saying that Magic Johnson becuase when you say something like that Lebron James we’ll automatically think that, we’ll compare your quotes to that of Scottie Pippen who had the audacity to say that he was better than Michael Jordan I mean be careful Magic.Magic
I’m not going to be as crazy or as stupid as Scottie Pippen, I mean I love Scottie Pippen and Scottie has a right to his “opinion”. But Stephen A, Lebron James is not even close and let me say that one more time not even close to Michael Jordan, and so I think that it’s great that we want to compare him to Mr. Air Jordan but until you start winning championships and all of that and dominate the way Michael dominated and then, just look at this 6 titles and he was the MVP in every single finals that’s just amazing and I won’t even talk about all the other things that he did.
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Stephen A Smith
I guess what I would ask, somebody like a Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Michael Jordan all of you guys have been on the record as saying that’s something you guys wouldn’t have done looking at it now do you knock him for making the descison to go to south beach.Magic
I stand behind what I said earlier you know I wouldn’t have done it but at the same time this is the new wave of things you know, I would have preferred him to stay in Cleveland and lead that incredible city and franchise to a championship and what’s he did that then he could have left. Like me I was from Michigan he was from Ohio, I had the chance to be the #1 pick in 1978 I flew down to Kansas City they wanted to draft me #1 they said hey, Joe Alkerson was the GM then, we’ll take you if we don’t take you we will take Phil Ford. I said ok I’m going back to school, the reason I went back was becasue I wanted to lead Michigan State to it’s first national championship, once we did that the next year I left becuase I accomplished my goal we had never won anything in basketball at Michigan State before that. So now when I go home Stephen A everybody love Magic, and it was going to be the same for Lebron, now it was his descison you know but I would have preferred him to lead them to the championship.