Magic Johnson’s Turn to Criticize LeBron’s Decision

@Bryan, how is going to MIA the easy way out. Don’t they still have to play the games on the floor against teams that will be gunning for them every night. Nobody said that KG was taking the easy way out when he went to BOS or Shaq to LA. The heat still have to go out there and play hard every game for them to win anything. Basketball is not easy no matter how great the team is.

I will bet all my guap that the truth is really the PHILOSOPHER.

JTaylor, you take arguably the #1 player in the NBA, face of the CLE franchise, and leader in just about every statistical category there, then you take Chris Bosh, face of TOR, the anti-Vince Carter, and leader of just about every statistical catergory north of the border, and combine that with Dwyane Wade, Mr. Everything, in Miami. How is THAT not taking the easy way out? Yes basketball isn’t easy and games still have to be played, but if they win, it’s because they were supposed to based in those 3.

Lets stop talking bout greatness for a guy who only won two mvps, cause if thats the case steve nash should also be talked in this convo. Also scottie pippen is the greatest sidekick in basketball history, but by no means was he the d wade to jordans leborn. case in point where was the bulls when jordan left, what was portland like when he came to town. Dont get me wrong no way jordan has six rings with out scottie’s hall of fame talent, but jordan is jordan for a reason. when he had his bad 20 or so games in the season (just an exaggerating), yes, scottie along with paxton, kerr and grant mad having a off day easy. just like all these dope heads who say shaq won three rings dolo. Yes, shaq was the best player on that team (Hell, he was the most dominant player in the league for almost a decade), but noway with out kobe being just as talented, and d fish, robert horry, rick fox, he doesnt get one, thats the same reason he won one in MIA and kobe now with the new look lakers. The fact is stats get broken all the time, so the only thing to set you apart from the other all-stars is championship, so the heat can win the next six but because your not the man on your own squad surrounded by good talent, those stats will suffer. Not only that but the one who shoots the rock with three seconds left at the end of the game will be considered the greatest.

Im just sayin…

what was the lebron nuthuggers/kobe haters main of biatch towards kobe? he couldnt win w/out shaq and those 3 rings dont count.blahblahlbah.the same must be said towards lebron once he gets his ring.

THIS is the way the game evolves.

Now every team must find a way to beat the Heat. As a Raps fan, I was pro Heat until Bron… Now they are the villain. Hopefully great to watch, but Bosh and Wade (a good teaming) are now tainted by playing buddy to the King instead of rising to challenge him.

Jordan and Magic getting bashed for being ambassadors for the game and looking out for it is not fair. They speak of their time and although the “slights” are there and very real… they are the same slights that most fans agree with. We largely wanted the rivalry to develop that some suggest wasn’t there… We wanted their to be strong nemisis storylines between Wade, Kobe and LBJ.

In the end though, the only ones who mattered… Were not interested in that arc and went for the Juggernaut approach.

If Destiny’s Child doesn’t win a championship soon in Miami all hell will break loose

Some of the greatest players of all-time have voiced opinions about LeBron and pretty much respondeb by saying that ‘they would have never done it’ or ‘it was different back then’. I’m not sure this is bashing LeBron nor why some people now are bashing MJ and Magic. Both of these guys were great competitors with insight to how the league was back then and that’s how they answered the question. Barkely who never won a ring and was traded also ‘bashed’ LeBron so it does not appear that this argument that Magic and MJ shouldn’t comment because they were on stacked teams makes any sense. Bottom line IMO, MJ/Magic only spoke the truth about thier era and never said anything about rivalires either. What they said is they wanted to beat the best players out there, not join forces with them. All these comments about LeBron and Wade not being rivals have nothing to do with what Magic and MJ said. The way I see their comments is that LeBron is one of the best, Wade is one of the best and instead of trying to beat each other as competitors, they are joining forces. Magic didn’t say anything about any rivalry, just that he wanted to beat the other top player (Larry) in the league.

Anyone saying Jordan was drafted onto a good team ready to win must have been born in the 90′s. And saying he wanted Rodman on the team like he was a superstar is equally ridiculous. Rodman was a malcontent, constantly in trouble with the league, suicidal even (read his book), who famously kept things under control for the bulls to win. Kind of like Artest but more of a loose cannon.

To The Masses:
Times are in fact, different. Things have changed so dramatically over the course of years and decades. One cannot blame the greats for their collective thesis.
But, one has to understand and keep in mind is that today the AAU has a greater influence on basketball and its players from the bottom to the top.
This is why many, many players are friends, buddies, what have you, from childhood. Not saying that this is the case with James, Bosh, and Wade, but… Dwight Howard, Josh Smith… The list goes on and on.
In The Legends’ days, those variables weren’t as prominent.
Just my opinion.

Plus, many of the players today are form the same state, city, town, country, all of that.
Anyways,
JTaylor21:
I don’t do that. And if I did, I would use a different screen name.
No disrespect to The Truth, though.

Peter, you sir is a moron. rodman is the greatest rebounder in nba history even better than wilt and russel, he may not be a superstar but he was a star. Without him to guard kemp and malone twice the bulls MIGHT have lost to both teams. dude used to guard MJ back in his pistons days. @The Philosopher, i just had to make sure, my fault.

Great players bring other players to them, you don’t become DWade’s dog and go to Miami. You bring Dwade and Bosh to you. That “Chosen 1″ tattoo on LeBron’s back is a joke

What if this is just an inception?

true its a different time and as i said lebron competitive in a different way. he wants to win with his buddy’s o nan all-star team to play the all-star lakers and match them head on. In my opinion i think lebron was going to stay in cleveland until the boston lose when he realized that team measn so much. On top of that seeing kobe win game seven and not playing well, he was for sure going. I knew he was going to miami after game seven in my honest opinion. i just didnt think he would do it with bosh there.

Destiny’s Child, Ha.

It’s funny that it seems like the only celeb who seems to support LeBrons decision is Lil’ Wayne. Outside of that it seems that you get negative or at best luke-warm responses like ‘well he had the right to decide’. Maybe they LeBron can get Joakim Noah to say he would have done it to or good moove, at least Noah is the only player on record saying he doesn’t like the city of Cleveland.

Just to clarify, my previous comment was directed towards people with the mentality of not joining your rivals. Not necessarily towards either MJ. I believe Jordan is just stating what he would have done and not trying to slight the new school. But after Magic’s recent book, I’m always going to think that snake has something else on his mind.

Kundai, All I remeber Bosh saying about Cleveland is that he considered going there but thought if he went to Miami with Wade, that they would have the extra salary cap room to bring in Bron or another couple top free agents making them a better team than cleveland who would not have had any extra money. I also heard him say something like he decided to go to Miami to not interfere with LeBrons decision. Honestly I don’t buy either statement and think this has been planned for a while, but besides that, I never heard him say anything about the City. Seems like a lot of people are talking really negatively about Cleveland claiming players have said they don’t want to play there, but outside of Noah I haven’t heard it. Personally I’ve traveled a lot and spent pretty significant amounts of time in many NBA cities and I prefer Cleveland than Detorit, Indi, Portland, Sac, Salt Lake and several others. Yes I’d take Chi, Mia, NYC, LA over Cleveland but I was just trying to figure out what it is (if anything) players have said about Cleveland that makes it so ‘bad’.

also: I’ve mentioned in previous posts…you sign all three of those dudes, and you have to take the responsibility that comes with it. And the top guys in your league wanting to kick you a$$ when they roll into town is a big part of that responsibility. Magic, Michael and those guys dealt with that that their whole careers, and they were the alpha-dogs for their teams. I cannot believe people would be shocked or pi$$ed at them for not agreeing with Lebron’s choice. Crawford noted earlier that it’s the new NBA. Codgers like us, who loved watching the Lakers-Celts and Pistons-Bulls cannot stand watching these dudes team up instead of competing. Competition is not the name of the game anymore. It’s bull$hit like “global brands” and “taking my talents” and referring to oneself in the third-person. And you know what they all have in common? Self-interests. And that is what the majority of the league is about these days. Kevin McHale constantly says on NBA TV “let’s strap ‘em up and I’ll try to kick your butt and you’ll try to kick mine.” In Lebron and Wade’s world, it’s “let’s team up and try to kick everybody’s butt so we can expand our global brands.”

I’m sick of reading everywhere MJ criticized Lebron. He gave his opinion when he was asked about it. He was answering a question, if people took the time to watch the video (which I’m posting here) you’ll see how he answered he did it in a very respectful way and in no way he joined this LBJ bashing thin. Watch and shut up already!

http://hiphopwired.com/2010/07/19/michael-jordan-questions-lebron-james’-move-to-miami-video/

I am not the nupe,FIX THIS SIHT SLAM!! Im tarzan, and scoop said it best yesterday, find his story at the follower, he perfectly points out the hypocrisy of what jordan said

Myles: In the same article, Rose says that he did reach to Bosh, only texted Bron and didn’t talk to D-Wade at all (even though he’s been in Chicago all summer). That leads me to think that might be only about not having to share ballhandling duties. He’s 21, coming off his first ASG and wants to establish himself as a premier point guard on the same level as CP3, Nash and D-Will. A couple of stories mention that Bron’s team was surprised that Noah tried to reach and management tried to reach but Rose stayed out of it. Not a knock on Rose but by reaching out to Bosh and not Bron or Wade, he thought about himself and not the Bulls.

how is this bashing? im pretty sure all of these guys are being asked what they think about Bron and simply speaking on it. it’ll be different if they was walking out the house, standing in the middle of the street yelling their unwarranted opinions. plus any “bashing” coming Bron’s way was brought onto himself.