Re: Let's revisit Magic Johnson's 1995-1996 season with the Lakers...
[QUOTE=bwink23]TROLLING MUCH???[/QUOTE]
Your probably like 21 and never seen a full Magic Johnson game. You just know him because he's popular.
Re: Let's revisit Magic Johnson's 1995-1996 season with the Lakers...
[QUOTE=NugzHeat3]It's amazing how he just returns and puts up a sick statline in like 25 minutes or so. A classic moment too when he put that ball fake on Sprewell and the Forum erupted.
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Alright, so in 1996, I was in 6th grade. That means when Johnson announced his retirement in 1991, I was heading into just 2nd grade. Subsequently, I never [i]really[/i] got to watch him play prior to his comeback. Only highlights. And even then, seeing the same highlights over and over became a little numbing (always the right hand, ball-on-a-platter, no-look shovel pass).
But that night, January 30, 1996 (the day my brother was born), when Magic Johnson checked in and just moments after entering, pulled off that ball-fake on Latrell Sprewell, I felt I was instantly made aware of the magic I'd missed throughout Johnson's early career. That one ball fake was enough to illustrate how he operated on a different level from anyone else who'd ever played the game. By that I mean, I realized it is quite different to watch a great player play and experience the beauty unfolding, as opposed to watching highlights where you know what's coming. That play might not even be in Magic's all-time top 20, but I'd never seen anything like it to that point.
That electric Sprewell fake: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeqkGwnHqrQ[/url]
Re: Let's revisit Magic Johnson's 1995-1996 season with the Lakers...
[QUOTE=TAZORAC]Your probably like 21 and never seen a full Magic Johnson game. You just know him because he's popular.[/QUOTE]
Magic couldn't shoot? Is that why he was a career 85% from the charity stripe?
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Re: Let's revisit Magic Johnson's 1995-1996 season with the Lakers...
Magic in my book flat balled for that Lakers team. And the best player on the team. He came off the bench and did great though. And he was doing it at 36 or 37 years old. What's scary is that Magic came damn close to being able to play with Shaq AND Kobe! Both arrived that very next year!
Re: Let's revisit Magic Johnson's 1995-1996 season with the Lakers...
I only watched Prime Magic Johnson ion NBA greatest games, and some of the Showtime Lakers games on youtube. He was a great baller. Magic in last great season led the Lakers in the 1991 NBA Finals.