clyde drexler's had enough...disses magic johnson

[Trill Clinton]

"Magic was always..." And Drexler goes into a decent Magic impression: "'Come on, Clyde, come on, Clyde, get with me, get with me,' and making all that noise.

And, really, he couldn't play much by that time. He couldn't guard his shadow.""But you have to have to understand what was going on then. Everybody kept waiting for Magic to die. Every time he'd run up the court everybody would feel sorry for the guy, and he'd get all that benefit of the doubt. Magic came across like, 'All this is my stuff.' Really? Get outta here, dude. He was on the declining end of his career."

Drexler had played exquisitely in the 1992 All-Star Game in Orlando, although the MVP award eventually went to Magic, who had been added by Commissioner Stern as a special thirteenth player to the Western Conference roster. "If we all knew Magic was going to live this long, I would've gotten the MVP of that game, and Magic probably wouldn't have made the Olympic team."
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/clyde-drexler-dream-team-era-magic-johnson-everybody-194908503--nba.html

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[djohn2oo8]

smh clyde

[lefty]

Drexeler got robbed in that ASG

Magic played well too, but Clyde was fucking awesome

[LkrFan]

"If we knew Magic were going to live this long I would have won 1992 All Star Game MVP..."
--Clyde The Glide

:rollin

[Stalin]

:lol drexler still butthurt because magic's AIDS cost him an allstar mvp

[ElNono]

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[Trill Clinton]

That "everybody kept waitin' for Magic to die" line is some ether for yo ass.

[LkrFan]

:lol drexler still butthurt because magic's AIDS cost him an allstar mvp

Past his prime Magic also denied Portland a 1991 Finals bid. The Blazers were stacked that year too...but they made it the next year and got the beat down so it's a moot point. :king

[ElNono]

Drexeler got robbed in that ASG

Magic played well too, but Clyde was fucking awesome

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[LkrFan]

That "everybody kept waitin' for Magic to die" line is some ether for yo ass.

:lmao

[mavs>spurs]

:lol is he really crying about an all star game mvp? sounds like an accolade only kobe bryant would take pride in..that and scoring titles.

[OKC Thunderstorm]

Yep his bitchass complained ... and then he apologized and said he was misquoted.

[baseline bum]

Damn, and I thought LeBron was the player most butthurt about All-Star MVPs.

jDL6goanErU

[LkrFan]

:lol is he really crying about an all star game mvp? sounds like an accolade only kobe bryant would take pride in..that and scoring titles.

WTF does Kobe have to do with this thread? :lol

#OBSESSED :downspin:

[mavs>spurs]

WTF does Kobe have to do with this thread?

it sounds like something he'd do, pretty self explanatory

[dbreiden83080]

"Everybody kept waiting for Magic to die. Every time he'd run up the court everybody would feel sorry for the guy, and he'd get all that benefit of the doubt. Magic came across like, 'All this is my stuff.' Really? Get outta here, dude. He was on the declining end of his career."



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[DPG21920]

Terrible announcer, terrible statements

[Koolaid_Man]

it sounds like something he'd do, pretty self explanatory

I've been waiting for you to die for like 1000 years

[dunkman]

All-star MVP is nothing worth writing home about tbh. I'm surprised by Drexler's comments since he had a very solid HOF career. Went to finals once, an championship with Hakeem, multiple all-star and all-nba teams, shouldn't be class-less like that.

[ViceCity86]

Magic and Drexler like most successful athletes are sociopaths.Magic should just tell the truth on how he really caught HIV.Drexler is Isiah Thomas 2.0

[redzero]

"Sociopath" is stretching it.

[Kai]

JJ1MTsLHjTk

[weebo]

Much of what Drexler said is true tho. Magic, Larry Bird, and Laettner had no business being on the original "Dream Team."
Also, everyone was feeling sorry for magic for sticking it in some dirty homo's ass because everyone thought he would be dead by the end of spring.
Along comes the All-Star game and Almighty Stern creates a spot just for him. He wins the mvp not out of merit but on sympathy alone.
If I were glide I would be pissed too

[DJ Mbenga]

the guy who wrote the passage is saying drexlers words would really benefit from context.

[HeatChamps]

The only legend more annoying than Johnson is Drexler.

[pass1st]

:lol Clyde being butthurt because he didn't get a meaningless award, Magic was fantastic in the AS game and it could have gone either way.

[Venti Quattro]

:lol Drexler
:lol Jordan comparisons
:lol destroyed by Jordan
:lol can't beat an old and HIV-positive Magic

[scanry]

the guy who wrote the passage is saying drexlers words would really benefit from context.

Jack Mccallum is probably the best writer in all of sports. His articles on SI are the goods. Him and Johnny Ludden are the only writers who have never twisted or misquoted players for their articles and books. I am actually surprised Mccallum has gone this far with Drexler for his book.

Another book i would strongly recommend reading is Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan by David Halberstam.

[LkrFan]

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:lol

[TheMACHINE]

it sounds like something he'd do, pretty self explanatory

That's Kobe....but include championships to the scoring title and asg mvp

[Latarian Milton]

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didn't remember i ever grinned like that tbh :lol

[Venti Quattro]

didn't remember i ever grinned like that tbh :lol

Because Koreans don't grin like that, Rogue.

[scanry]

Because Koreans don't grin like that, Rogue.

Man what's up with Latariain Milton these days. He sure got famous for cussing his grandma. :lol

[lefty]

HOUSTON -- Clyde Drexler (http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/3686/clyde-drexler) denied Wednesday making negative statements attributed to him about Magic Johnson in an upcoming book about the Dream Team.
In Jack McCallum's book, "Dream Team," Drexler said Johnson only earned a spot on the Olympic team and the MVP award in the 1992 All-Star game out of pity resulting from his HIV diagnosis the previous year.

“ http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0627/nba_g_clyde-drexler_mb_65.jpg Magic and I have a friendship that goes back more than 28 years and I would never say such hurtful things. I have reached out to Magic to assure him that I did not say those things and to apologize to him and his family for even having to respond to something as baseless as this.
” -- Clyde Drexler "He couldn't play much by that time. He couldn't guard his shadow," Drexler is quoted as saying in the book. "But you have to understand what was going on then. Everybody kept waiting for Magic to die. Every time he'd run up the court everybody would feel sorry for the guy, and he'd get all that benefit of the doubt."
Drexler said in a phone interview that the quotes attributed to him were "totally ludicrous" and he has "no idea" where McCallum got them. In a statement released through the Houston Rockets (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/clubhouse?team=hou), Drexler says he would've never said those things and that Johnson is one of his closest long-time friends.
"Magic and I have a friendship that goes back more than 28 years and I would never say such hurtful things," Drexler's statement said. "I have reached out to Magic to assure him that I did not say those things and to apologize to him and his family for even having to respond to something as baseless as this."
McCallum's book is due out on July 10.
On his website, McCallum said the excerpt is accurate. Deadspin.com ran the excerpt on Tuesday, and McCallum said the site mischaracterized the context. Drexler was referring to the opinion of many people in the league, McCallum said, and not specifically members of the 1992 Olympic team.
Drexler, now an analyst for the Rockets' locally televised games, said in the statement that he was one of Johnson's biggest supporters in the wake of the diagnosis that led to his retirement in November 1991.
"I take great exception to having such comments attributed to me," Drexler said.
"I have nothing but love and respect for Magic Johnson and all that he has accomplished in basketball and in life. I always took pride in being a great teammate throughout my career and I would never have made the statements that were reported in Jack McCallum's book."
McCallum interviewed Drexler at his home and got the sense that Drexler felt snubbed when he wasn't one of the first 10 players named to the much-celebrated team. He was added to the team later, along with Duke's Christian Laettner (http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/453/christian-laettner).
McCallum said he didn't feel comfortable writing about what Drexler said, but he stands by the quote.
"Now, is there an element of truth to it? I can't say for sure," McCallum wrote. "What's clear, though, is that it was extremely impolitic of Drexler to say it. And let me emphasize again that he wasn't talking about the Dream Teamers, but more the league in general."
One key element excluded from the Deadspin excerpt, McCallum said, was that Drexler "stood tallest of all the Dream Teamers in welcoming Magic back to the league" in 1996.

Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press