Between Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan who is/was the worse executive?

[STATUTORY]

I gotta give the edge to Magic, dude didn't even bother showing up for work and held a press conference to announce quitting like it was the WWE

[SouBeachTalents]

Magic was only there for 2 years. Jordan's been an executive going on 2 decades, been with Charlotte for nearly 15 years and has literally achieved nothing. Hasn't even won a single playoff series in the weak East

But to your point, Jordan has obviously at least stuck with things, didn't quit like a clown like Magic did

[Dray n Klay]

Basically, every part of Jordan

[tontoz]

Jordan has been pretty bad but he never had a debacle like this year with the Lakers.

Jordan plays things closer to the vest, but he's made some big mistakes in the draft. Morrison (that was a prettty weak draft) and MKG over Beal are the most obvious screwups.

[ImKobe]

Magic actually made some good moves, but he didn't have as much power over the FO that MJ does... Magic is just a face, Jordan's an owner. Magic didn't have the kind of power people thought he did.

[Vino24]

If Jordan hired Pippen as the GM of the Bobcats do you think they would start winning chips? I do

[STATUTORY]

Magic was only there for 2 years. Jordan's been an executive going on 2 decades, been with Charlotte for nearly 15 years and has literally achieved nothing. Hasn't even won a single playoff series in the weak East

But to your point, Jordan has obviously at least stuck with things, didn't quit like a clown like Magic did

lets open up the conversation, who's been a bigger failure in their post playing career?

Magic has a much greater string of failures compared to Jordan

[SouBeachTalents]

lets open up the conversation, who's been a bigger failure in their post playing career?

Magic has a much greater string of failures compared to Jordan
They've both seemed to make bank and do very well in business ventures off the court. Outside of his experience as an NBA exec, Jordan's seemed to do very well in anything he's done outside of basketball; while Magic had his embarrassingly dreadful talk show, supported Hillary for president twice, and for the homophobes of the board, produced a flamboyantly gay son

[LukeWalton]

y'all forgetting Isiah Thomas

[jstern]

I have to defend Magic here. Things just turned really toxic for him. The environment became so toxic that he just suddenly quit while being asked for sound bites after a game. Almost fully crying.

Jordan never had to deal with such an environment.

[RoseCity07]

Having a sh*tty team for 15 years is just special. They really thought Kemba Walker was some type of franchise player lol. They had a 6th man of the year type player running the team like he's Steve Francis.

[SpaceJam2]

[QUOTE=Dray n Klay]Basically, every part of Jordan

[superduper]

LeGM 2019

[Bawkish]

Most HOFer turned executives were definitely worst kind of GMs

Jerry West & Larry Bird were the only exceptions

[Real Cavs Fan]

HIV + and a gay son or murdering your own father? They both lose.

[1987_Lakers]

Jordan was an absolute train-wreck as a GM, but he was smart enough to step down as GM once he realized he didn't know how to form a team, since then the Hornets haven't been bad, just below average.

Magic is the answer to the question, the fact that he gave up in such a short amount of time is just inexcusable, dude just flat out quit when things got tough.

[And1AllDay]

HIV + and a gay son or murdering your own father? They both lose.

:eek:

[1987_Lakers]

Most HOFer turned executives were definitely worst kind of GMs

Jerry West & Larry Bird were the only exceptions

Jerry West is a legendary GM, Bird also formed one of the best teams in the league for a brief moment, but Bird trading Leonard for Hill will forever haunt him.

[Duncan21formvp]

Magic inherited the winniest franchise in NBA history. Jordan basically got one guy who made the allstar team in the entire time.

[RRR3]

Having a sh*tty team for 15 years is just special. They really thought Kemba Walker was some type of franchise player lol. They had a 6th man of the year type player running the team like he's Steve Francis.
Kemba is the same level of player as Francis was lol.

[Shaquille O'Neal]

HIV + and a gay son or murdering your own father? They both lose.



Not this shit again. He murdered his own father? This has been discussed ad nauseam on here - the consensus only complete fuktards would even suggest such a stupid comment.


The 2 teenage kids that killed Jordan's Dad made calls on the Lexus car phone to their buddies and shot of video of themselves walking around with Jordan's jewelry including an all-star ring from '85.

Mob guys don't do this, if you're implying some mobsters put a hit out on him, followed him to a road side rest, made phone calls on the Lexus phone, dragged his body over to a swamp. Then decided that was enough to account for the "gambling debt" Michael owed, and didn't kill anyone else in the family.
That's some retarded conclusion.:facepalm

[Phoenix]

Neither one of them should be striving for the others executive career, let's put it that way. Jordan's been failing for ages and Magic doesn't stick out anything long enough. He more or less crashes quickly and spectacularly and then onto the next thing dropped into his lap because 'he's Magic'.