But if you think about it, you will find that James and Jordan are not the same type of players. James's official position is that the defender-striker swings, and history will not lie. He can play 1 to 5 on both ends of the offense and defense. However, Michael Jordan's brilliance can only be measured by shooting guards.
According to historical records, it is not difficult to see that in the long history of NBA, the player who is most like James is Magic ervin johnson. But I found that people never seem to mention the magician's name when discussing who is the best in NBA history. Some people even think that the magician can't even touch James's taillight. Is that really the case?
Next is the moment when we witness history together.
Every time I mention Owen Johnson's name, I tremble. I have always thought that it is a blessing for basketball to have Owen Johnson in the world.
If you knew his childhood, you wouldn't be shocked by his great career. Basketball accompanied him through his whole childhood. He arrives at the basketball court at 7: 30 every morning on time. When he was just 1 1 years old, he had already practiced the technique of dribbling with both hands to the extreme.
It's hard to imagine that a teenager who just 15 can average 36 points 16 rebounds 16 assists. You wouldn't expect that ervin johnson, who is famous for his point guard, won the state championship with an average of 16.8 rebounds.
Ervin johnson's high school career and college career are exactly the same. He always seems so lonely. He is invincible, and everywhere he goes, he is full of fear. So he decided to give up his studies after two years in college and prepare for a breakthrough in the NBA.
I thought the world's most sacred basketball shrine would convince the magician, but later I found out that I was wrong.
This 20-year-old boy makes the NBA fidgety. 1980 with the deepening of the playoffs, the magician was pushed to the position of power forward, which made the Lakers' overall strength further. Magic is like a catalyst, which makes this Lakers team have no weaknesses.
In the finals, the Lakers met 76 people. After the first five games, the Lakers led the 76 ers 3-2. Unfortunately, at this time, Abdel-Gabbar, the inside core of the Lakers, suffered a serious ankle injury. As a last resort, the Lakers had to give up the G6 war strategically and concentrate all their energy on the deciding game. But the magician refused. He defines himself as a "big center".
Boy! Johnson is really something. He played center for the first time in the playoffs. He is not afraid at all. On the contrary, he played better than Qiao Ba. He scored 42 points 15 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals, and eliminated 76 people by himself. His last-minute hook became a classic. There is no doubt that at the age of 20, Johnson became the youngest NBA Finals MVP.
Because ervin johnson didn't know where he was playing, he defined himself as a tramp.
198 1-82 season, Owen Johnson returned to the peak after returning from injury. In the playoffs, the team reached the finals with an average of 17.4 points1.3 rebounds, 9.3 assists and 2.9 steals, and eliminated the Philadelphia 76 ers 4-2 again.
When this scene happened, I was completely lost in thought. If the basketball genius hadn't suffered a serious knee injury at 198 1, he might have led the Lakers to three consecutive championships and been elected as the finals FMVP trophy for three consecutive years.
In the next two years, the Lakers changed. Noam Nixon, the third core of the team, left the team. Besides, Jabbar is nearly 40 years old. At the same time, Owen Johnson has reached the bottleneck of his personal basketball career. He repeatedly made low-level mistakes in the playoffs in the past two years, which eventually led to the team missing the championship for two consecutive years.
After two defeats, the magician finally realized that he would use his personal ability to make up for the loss caused by Jabbar's aging, so he began to practice shooting hard during the offseason. Live up to expectations, the 1985 postseason magician is not only a passer, but also a key player of the Lakers. He won the championship by averaging 17.5 points, 7. 1 rebounds, 15.2 assists and 1.7 steals.
1986-87 season, magic completed its evolution again. He averaged 23.9 points, 6.3 rebounds 12.2 assists 1.7 assists in 80 regular games, leading the Lakers to an excellent record of 63 wins 17 losses.
After entering the playoffs, Elvin Johnson is even more unstoppable. At this time, he has practiced Jabbar's hook technique to perfection, giving the impression that it is a combination of magician and Jabbar. He wandered between 1~5 like a ghost. The random switching between scoring and assists made him unstoppable. The magician can send 12.2 assists and 46. 1% assists per game when the ball occupancy rate is as low as 23. 1%. There is also a record of 2 1.6 points, which is really a fucking thing (even James didn't do it).
This year, the magician also won the regular season MVP, finals MVP, assists king and other honors.
In the playoff of 1988, the Magic still dominated the league. In the end, with the performance of averaging 19.9 points, 5.4 rebounds 12.6 assists 1.4 steals, the Lakers became the first team to win the championship in a row after the 1968-69 season.
Three championships in four years, two championships in three years, five championships in ten years, and led the team to the finals nine times in his career. At the same time, there are 3FMVP+5 champions +3MVP+ 10 selected for the best team +4 assists +2 steals. Attention, everyone, I'm going to get down to business. All these achievements were accomplished by ervin johnson in his 12 career. Oh, my God! It's scary to think about it.
Bird once said: I have been competing with magicians all my career, which is very interesting. At that time, there were many excellent players, including Michael Jordan, but I never met a player as excellent and legendary as a magician.
I believe that fans who know history should know that larry bird is the player who has the most power to evaluate Jordan and Magic, because he has tied with Magic in the world in the 1980s. During this period, he swept Michael Jordan 3-0 for two consecutive years. So when Bird said that the magician was better than Jordan, we should seriously think about this problem.