DREXLER has BEEF with MAGIC

Funny that even in the declining year of his career (1991 was his last year before his comeback in 1996) Magic was still dominant, 19.4 PPG, 12.5 APG and 7 RPG. The numbers don’t lie, he retired at an All-NBA level. It would have been a travesty to exclude him from the Dream Team.

All these great players from the 80s/90s need to chill out, no need to bring up beef from way back when. It just seems petty now.

im really surprised clyde went this route. He makes a few valid points. Fact is guys all gave way to magic after he retired and came back for the dream team and the all-star game and didnt try and overshadow him becasue at that time, HIV was a certain death sentence. Magic couldnt gaurd his own shadow true, but he was still balling and him trying to tell guys what to do was just how he always was. He always was the man in the room who told everyone what to do that had nothing to do with sympathy.

I watched Magic play in an exhibition game in October 1992 when he briefly tried to make a comeback. He played great and totally controlled the game. He put up a great stat line. The only guy since then to remind me of him at that time (basically a point power forward) has been LeBron James this year in the Finals.

… The Olympic story I heard is that MJ obliterated Clyde in practice and he was never really the same after that.

If Magic was “done” in 1992 (or earlier) then why did he play well in 1995-1996 during his final comeback in a league where Clyde Drexler
was nowhere to be found.

I like Clyde Drexler, and he was probably just joking around here but it has been taken out of context. I still think he is a bit pissed about Magic getting the all-star game MVP but if Magic wasn’t on the team then the West might have lost. The East featured a couple of guys named Jordan and Pippen you know.

Oh, by the way, wasn’t Drexler one of the last two guys on the Dream Team? Are you telling me that The Glide had a better resume than Isiah Thomas? What, Jordan and Pip couldn’t have held down the two guard spot by themselves? Or was Drexler vastly superior to Dominique Wilkins? Drexler could throw down better? What about even Joe Dumars? A better defender and shooter than Clyde, and a guy that could play both backcourt spots?

I remember the Dream Team and first they had the original ten guys. Then they had to pick the last two, and if I am not mistaken there was some debate about having both of the last two guys being collegians. Laettner got one of the spots and Clyde got the other. I mean, come on. What if Shaq had gotten that last spot. He would have broken every backboard in Spain. He would have been a BEAST in practice and probably been the best center in games. But no, we got Drexler. A nice player
but he didn’t particularly stand out on the Dream Team. When I think of that team I think of Mike, Magic, Barkley, and the Mailman tearing it up. Stockton being injured for most of it. Bird having s creaky back but hitting some shots when he could play. Laettner not really playing at all. Pippen taking ten steps on a breakaway dunk. Clyde “the Glide” Drexler? Not so much.

clyde and leattner were the last two guys. I had posters and little figureines of the team as a kid, and none of them had drexler. He was a late addition when they went to 12 players. But thats not to knock him as a player. He was a great player and was probably more deserving then both pippen and mullin in my book at that time.

 Drexler belonged on the dream team Mullin did not, Bird probably not either because of back problems but got on because of lifetime achievement.

also magic wasnt the type to just go ride off into the sunset. Larry bird told a story from the 92 dream team where magic and jordan and bird were playing cards in their hotel room and magic was telling jordan that his time hasnt come yet and he still isnt the best and bird had to basically tell magic to stfu, jordan had passed both of them.

i’ve heard that story ll!! magic just kept running his mouth and bird was like "dude shut up…" and mj just was sittin there with a smirk on his face like "man this guy knows he’s wrong"