he is better. NBA is a stats league now
magic would easily average 25-15-12 playing today with the way the rules are.


He wouldn't have no 15 assists because this isn't 1984 and you don't get to run 35 fast breaks a game and then dump the ball to KAJ to bail you out if you don't have anything else.
And how would a guy who couldn't shoot the three until the 1990s score 25ppg?
The 80s weren't a stat league?? Fukkin KiKi Vandewegh averaging 25ppg on 50%? Adrian Dantly averaging 30ppg on 55%?? STFU nikka
Kiki and Adrian are NOTHING when you got Kelly Tripucka averaging 27-5-4 on 48% shooting in his 2nd season.
Kelly Tripucka averaged well more than Magic right in the middle of Magic's prime, and you're gonna tell me that NOW is the stat's league?
magic was the better leader, better rebounder, better shooter (Especially from the line) and was decent at the set 3. Playing today magic would take the 3 ball more seriously and most importantly he was the best decision maker in basketball. He wasn't making assist passes like bron magic would make the pass that would setup the pass to the assist. You can tell when lebron just wants to pad his stats magic just wanted to win
I love the guys who prop up the old heads by giving them new skills they didn't have. Magic's a better shooter cause he "would have had" a three.
And talking about Magic's real skill being the hockey assists as if that doesn't take great coaching and teammates to even happen.
And what makes him the "best decision maker in basketball"? Do you not remember the "Tragic Johnson" series? And as far as best leader, that was just two years after he had thrown his teammates under the bus, called them jealous of his celebrity, and the team fell apart in the 1st round the season after they won the title. Magic's 1981 collapse was far, far worse than any series Lebron has ever had in his life.
As far as 1984, the first play on this highlight has to be the single worst 15 second final play by a "GOAT decision maker" that I've ever seen:
Ya'all try to talk about the 1980s when you watch those basic plays against basic defenses, slowest decision-making ever and it's still bad, and all those ugly turnovers.
And ya'all talk about teams leaving Lebron open when there were like 5 plays there where magic had an open jumper with the game tied in the final minute and just kept dribbling around trying to find someone else to shoot it.