{"id":457868,"date":"2025-09-01T19:41:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=457868"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:41:34","slug":"magic-johnson-michael-jordan-is-the-goat-then-lebron-and-kareem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/magic-johnson-michael-jordan-is-the-goat-then-lebron-and-kareem\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Johnson: \u201cMichael Jordan is the GOAT, then LeBron and Kareem\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1033\" data-end=\"1227\">At a Los Angeles event, <strong data-start=\"1057\" data-end=\"1074\">Magic Johnson<\/strong> reaffirmed his pick for the greatest ever: <strong data-start=\"1118\" data-end=\"1136\">Michael Jordan<\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019ve never seen anyone do what he could do, physically gifted and so smart,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1229\" data-end=\"1384\">Johnson ranked <strong data-start=\"1244\" data-end=\"1260\">LeBron James<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1265\" data-end=\"1288\">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/strong> right after Jordan, also naming <strong data-start=\"1321\" data-end=\"1337\">Bill Russell<\/strong> as undeniable with his 11 NBA championships.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1386\" data-end=\"1597\">He recalled Jordan\u2019s iconic 1991 Finals layup against the Lakers, calling it \u201cthe greatest shot I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d and also mentioned <strong data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1529\">Dr. J\u2019s<\/strong> famous play in the 1980 Finals as another timeless NBA highlight.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1599\" data-end=\"1660\"><em data-start=\"1599\" data-end=\"1623\">Source: Fadeaway World<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Los Angeles event, Magic Johnson reaffirmed his pick for the greatest ever: Michael Jordan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":322760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-457868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/Magic-Johnson-scaled.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457868"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=457868"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=457868"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=457868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}