Who was worth the least to their team: Jordan Magic or Bird?

@GZA ARIZA

C'mon, you can't be serious ....you're gonna say Bird + Carr/Henderson = 61 wins???

Hell, they gave up two HOFers (McAdoo and JoJo White) in place of those players. Not to mention, Dave Cowens was on his last legs as well. AND, they had to deal with a new head coach.

Why can't people face the facts? Bird took a bunch of SCRUBS in college and led them to an undefeated season and the national championship game!!!

Then, he joined a Celtic team that was in the basement the year before and led them to the best record in the league! The fact is that while Bird makes his teams better - Jordan just cares about padding his scoring stats.

Heck, Jordan had the league's leading rebounder in 87 and couldn't even break .500

And for you idiots that like to point out that Bird had better players around him, look at what they did when Bird went down with a double heel injury and missed the whole season in 88-89 .....they were a .500 team and got swept in the first round of the playoffs. And that team had Parish, McHale, DJ, and Ainge. And Bird was replaced by an all-star caliber player in Reggie Lewis!

Compare that with Mike Jordan's Bulls. He retires right before the start of the new season (so the Bulls don't have time to find a quality replacement), and Chicago only drops 2 games ....LOL

This is one of the easier questions on here .....

Bird > Jordan

Magic > Jordan

Even the BLIND SHEEP (like The Greatest) can see this ......

Hope this helps

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@GZA ......I know he was a cancer. I was merely pointing out that the Celtics had everything stacked against them that year (players coming and going), and Bird was STILL able to lead them to the best record in the league.

There's a huge difference between Bird and Jordan, and this just proves it, despite Jordan fanatics denial. Bird makes teams better - Jordan makes his own stats better.

I love Larry Bird and think he is one of the best players to ever play in the NBA, but people don't realize that his rookie season when he turned a 29 win team into 61 win team is a bit misguided. Celtics were in a rebuilding mode and there was also tumoil with the owner and Red. There were several key moves along with getting bird that turned around the celitcs bird's rookie season. That same year Red traded for M.L. Carr - a solid defender, pg gerald henderson. Those moves along with bird as the leader is why they won the 61 games. Bird did not take the exact same team that won 29 games to 61 games. Players like Carr and Henderson came at the same time as well.

Carr lead the league in steals bird's rookie year.

@Hoopfan...Mcadoo was a cancer on that team. It was good move to get rid of him. It's a team game. I'm not denying bird was the best player on that team and the majority of the reason they won 61 games, but not the sole reason. Wins are done by teams, say all you want that this team did this when a player went out, but there are many other factors. It's a team sport.

Your incorrect approximately one element in1988 the pistons became no longer one hundred% healthful isah thomas had a leg or ankle harm.. so one hundred% healthful we on no account comprehend who would have gained those 2 sequence.. and the 1988 sequence went 7 video games however the 89 sequence the pistons swept the lakers.

Jordan meant the least in the regular season, because his All-Star teammates could pick up his slack, but they needed his leadership and instinct to win championships. You could argue that he meant the least, but he was also the reason they won in the playoffs, if that makes sense

@ The greatest.

If Larry Bird got drafted to a championship potential team then why did the team go 29-53 the year before he was drafted? The poster of this question proved that Larry Bird meant the most to his team, followed by Magic then Jordan.

jordan meant the most to his team. pippen was the only other great player. so stop dissing jordan. he is the goat whetehr u laker fan boys like it or not

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YOU DO KNOW THAT WHEN JORDAN WAS DRAFTED TO THE BULLS THAT HE WAS THE ONLY GOOD PLAYER ON THE TEAM. HIS TEAMMATES WERE NOT GOOD AT ALL.

BOTH BIRD AND MAGIC GOT DRAFTED TO TEAMS THAT WERE ALREADY CLOSE TO CHAMPIONSHIP POTENTIAL TEAMS. SO ITS NOT FAIR TO COMPARE JORDANS ROOKIE YR TO THEIRS IDIOT

Bird. Michael set the best regular season title in NBA history at 72-10. he also won more championships with Bird. And overall, Michael was just the better player.

I am not going to answer because I will get those f*cking thumbs downs....but I like Bird the best out of all of them