It's 1980 in the NBA

**laram0** · #1 (**permalink**) -18-07-2007

Who would you take to build your team around?

Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

*thoey* · #2 (**permalink**) -18-07-2007

No question. Magic Johnson

*ramsanddodgers* · #3 (**permalink**) -19-07-2007

Earvin "Magic" Johnson.

He looked like he was having fun, could play any position, made his team-mates better...

One might think the players who followed after his AIDS-forced retirement would be less promiscuous, but then again they are all invincible. Just ask them....

*RamFan_Til_I_Die* · #4 (**permalink**) -19-07-2007

Tough call. Magic was great at scoring and dishing the assists, Bird was great at scoring and rebounding. I think the thing that tips it to Magic's favour would be the excitement factor. He was like a Harlem Globetrotter with skills. You never knew what he was going to do when the ball was in his hands. Two things are important when starting a franchise, winning and drawing a crowd. Magic would do both.

*LaRamsFanLongTime* · #5 (**permalink**) -19-07-2007

Majic Johnson, and using what we know now I would buy him a huge box of prophalactics