Magic Johnson got SWEPT (0-4) in the NBA Finals TWICE.

[bdreason]

And neither team that SWEPT him had a top 10 GOAT player.


Look, I'm not a LeBron fan, and I hope the Spurs win... but it's time to stop the overreaction and have some historical perspective.

[DMAVS41]

And neither team that SWEPT him had a top 10 GOAT player.


Look, I'm not a LeBron fan, and I hope the Spurs win... but it's time to stop the overreaction and have some historical perspective.

He also won 5 titles and made the finals 9 times.

Lebron only has 1 title...and if he loses...it would be 1 title out of 4 trips to the finals.

So this holds a bit more weight.

[WeGetRing2012]

And neither team that SWEPT him had a top 10 GOAT player.


Look, I'm not a LeBron fan, and I hope the Spurs win... but it's time to stop the overreaction and have some historical perspective.

And he won FMVP as a rookie

[WeGetRing2012]

And neither team that SWEPT him had a top 10 GOAT player.


Look, I'm not a LeBron fan, and I hope the Spurs win... but it's time to stop the overreaction and have some historical perspective.

And when he got swept in 91 it was the end of a dynasty after he already had 5 rings.

[bleedinpurpleTwo]

And neither team that SWEPT him had a top 10 GOAT player.


Look, I'm not a LeBron fan, and I hope the Spurs win... but it's time to stop the overreaction and have some historical perspective.

You might want to take a closer look at the circumstances involved.
just sayin'

[Rubio2Gasol]

Magic Johnson is also very overrated these days.

[bdreason]

You might want to take a closer look at the circumstances involved.
just sayin'

oh you mean like Magic playing with arguably the greatest player in the history of the game? Sorry, I forgot to mention that part.

[Midnite89]

And when he got swept in 91 it was the end of a dynasty after he already had 5 rings.

They got backdoor swept by Bulls ending in 4-1 but not swept. I believe the swept came from the 1983 Phillies (fo-fi-fo) and 1989 Pistons(Pistons revenge).

[tpols]

He also won 5 titles and made the finals 9 times.

Lebron only has 1 title...and if he loses...it would be 1 title out of 4 trips to the finals.

So this holds a bit more weight.

Lebron has shrunk..but its worth noting one of those times they were heavily out matched. And if lebron got to play on stacked laker teams with an aging all time great big man(whose still good enough to make a big impact but past his prime so he won't get much credit) he could've done a lot of the same things as magic.

Its kind of ridiculous that Bron and Kobe get penalized for playing with and losing with good teams sometimes but past greats all who played on super super stacked teams and lost too get a free pass.

Russell had tons of hof talent in a smaller league.
Wilt played with Jerry west Elgin Baylor etc
Kareem played with Oscar magic worthy and won one ring in a decade of his pure prime.
Magic had stacked laker team his whole career lost in the finals 4 times.
Bird had absolutely stacked Celtics teams

Just because you have a good team doesn't mean you have to win it every single year.. if we harped on their losses like we do current players we could nitpick the shot out of them and make them look bad too

[jlip]

I get what you're saying OP, and actually agree with the premise, but The Lakers got swept in '83 by the Sixers who had a prime Moses Malone who is at worst, a top 14, maybe top 10, player of all time and Dr. J who had just won the MVP two seasons earlier. Also the '89 sweep was not Magic's fault at all considering the fact that he got injured in the 2nd half of game two and couldn't finish out the series due to that injury. He only played five minutes in game 3 and couldn't continue. He missed all of game 4. Magic barely played half the series.

[Rubio2Gasol]

Top ten GOAT player is so ridiculous too - prime Malone ffs, prime Isiah, WTF am I reading.

[Nash]

Lebron is already a champion. This is nothing close to last year when he had nothing.

[Magic 32]

And neither team that SWEPT him had a top 10 GOAT player.


Look, I'm not a LeBron fan, and I hope the Spurs win... but it's time to stop the overreaction and have some historical perspective.

I only remember one legitimate sweep.

The other one was because of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV12WZoE__c&t=5m57s

[KG215]

Lebron has shrunk..but its worth noting one of those times they were heavily out matched. And if lebron got to play on stacked laker teams with an aging all time great big man(whose still good enough to make a big impact but past his prime so he won't get much credit) he could've done a lot of the same things as magic.

Its kind of ridiculous that Bron and Kobe get penalized for playing with and losing with good teams sometimes but past greats all who played on super super stacked teams and lost too get a free pass.

Russell had tons of hof talent in a smaller league.
Wilt played with Jerry west Elgin Baylor etc
Kareem played with Oscar magic worthy and won one ring in a decade of his pure prime.
Magic had stacked laker team his whole career lost in the finals 4 times.
Bird had absolutely stacked Celtics teams

Just because you have a good team doesn't mean you have to win it every single year.. if we harped on their losses like we do current players we could nitpick the shot out of them and make them look bad too

My problem with the ones I know a little about is this...weren't Magic and Bird losing to equally stacked teams in the Finals most of the time? I understand they had stacked teams, but the teams they were losing to were pretty talented/stacked in their own right.

[Magic 32]

Lebron is already a champion. This is nothing close to last year when he had nothing.

1-4 is bad. Very bad.