Magic Johnson 1991 Playoffs: Series Highlights vs. Golden State Warriors 

Bird had a better basketball IQ

OSDCrusher LoL.. sure he did.

@@OSDCrusher I'm a Celtics fan but even I gotta call bullshit on your comment. Bird had a great Bball IQ but Magic's court vision was unlike anything I have ever seen in this game. To this day there has been no one as good at the PG position.

@@dociebiemowie915 he only had good court vision because he was 6'9

OSDCrusher Dude stop trolling. Seriously. You’re not making a shred of sense, instead you are proving my point for me. His court vision was great because he was 6’9”? So as long as you are at least 6’9” you have court vision like that? Where are all the other 6’9” players who run the point and have court vision like this? Think about it I’ll wait.

You never will.

Probably because Pippen was possibly (and in my opinion is) the greatest defensive swingman in NBA history and the Bulls were one of the greatest defensive teams in NBA history. Magic averaged 19 points, 8 boards, and 12 assists against the Bulls, so it's not like he had a bad series. In fact other than Vlade he was the only bright spot. But the Lakers were a veteran team that was beat up by the time they got to the finals while the Bulls were young, healthy, athletic, and hungry. Worthy got hurt (sprained ankle) in the conference finals against the Blazers and although he tried his best wasn't himself in the finals. With Pippen on Magic, he normally would have been able to take advantage of the mismatches that created to score over Jordan or Paxson, but he couldn't. He looked stiff and slow, especially as the series moved to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Byron Scott had an absolutely terrible series by his standards, and like Worthy couldn't even play in the deciding game 5 after hurting his shoulder. With Worthy and Scott not playing well, the Bulls focused their defense on forcing Magic to work hard to even get the offense set up because they really weren't scared of any of the other Laker players offensively. Starting in game 2, the Bulls put Pippen on Johnson and basically dared any of the other Lakers to beat them. Nobody else was able to step up and the Bulls basically kept up the same game plan for the rest of the series. Honestly it's impressive that Magic was able to put up the numbers he did with the pressure they put on him.

and yet they still made the Finals

true but they were dominated by a young Bulls team in the final

Magic Johnson 31 years old James Worthy 30 years old So try again you acting like they 40 years old Jordan won 3 titles ages 33, 34, 35 years old in 1996, 1997, 1998

It's crazy that he played in 9 nba finals

Bulls 3-1 before Worthy and Scott so called hurt Byron Scott has a history of being so called hurt when he knows the Lakers arent gonna win series Everyone has and excuse when they lose instead of just taking it like a man Bulls was gonna beat Lakers in 1991 any way you slice it Bulls better then Lakers 1991 Jordan the best player in series and Lakers had nobody to stop him Jordan or Pippen defense could slow Magic down

@@sdawg4834 Its BS and a excuse lol the Lakers couldn't beat Bulls in 1991 Bulls 3-1 series lead before Byron Scott and James Worthy so called hurt Byron Scott history of faking injuries when he knew Lakers had no shot to win series lol

@@johnnyjust6623 that's a lie sir. If you go look at he last game of the Portland series worthy was limping badly and shouldn't have played. Byron Scott did not have a history of being hurt. As a matter of fact the only time he really got hurt was the 89 finals. They could have won with everyone healthy. Stop it.

@@johnnyjust6623 magic was basically playing 2 against one.

Ever hear of Kareem Abdul Jabbar? Larry Bird?

Joe Johnson, Kyrie irving, Michael Jordan, Shaq, Kobe, Melo

Kareem and Hakeem were SCARY in iso. The Skyhook and the left block turnaround were pretty much unstoppable. You had to hope they missed. Elvin Hayes high post turnaround. AD rocker J. MJ turnaround right block and dotted line. JW running lefty hook. Magic baby hook. Dr. J baseline drive. Reggie Miller and Rip Hamilton curl and jumpers off the screen. Karl pick and pop. Charles jump stop and power through in the lane. So many!