Lakers’ LeBron James Gets High Praise At Point Guard Position From Magic Johnson

LeBron James has been compared to many NBA point guard stars, including Magic Johnson.

Johnson measured at 6-foot-9, Johnson and won five NBA titles and was named an All-Star 12 times. He changed the point guard position with his skills. LeBron has an excellent passing ability, but Magic Johnson has noticed a lot of similarities between him and LeBron. 

“Now he’s really truly playing the point guard. He was point-forward before,” Johnson said. “I think we do play similar and we have similar ways in terms of coming down and making our teammates better. We won championships the same way. Our games are much alike, especially now that the ball is in his hands most of the time now as a real, true point guard.”

LeBron is averaging 25.7 points, 7.9 rebounds and 10.6 assists per contest.

What about Scottie Pippen?

In the 1993-94 season, Pippen was averaging 22.0 points, 8.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game during Michael Jordan’s first retirement. He led the Chicago Bulls to a 55-27 record.

Pippen had a great time that season. “There was something there to give me the confidence just to talk ****,” Pippen said last season. “Just having that confidence in myself instilled more confidence. It didn’t put any pressure on me. Our team bonded so well without Michael, as far as how players responded. We felt like our offense was made for the Knicks. We knew we could beat the Knicks without Michael.”

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LeBron James and Magic Johnson are similar in term of point guard skills

And Jason Kidd?

Kidd is a ten-time NBA All Star and triple double force. He won an NBA championship at the end of his basketball career as a player of the Dallas Mavericks. He was co-Rookie of the Year in 1995 along with Hall of Fame inductee Grant Hill. Kidd averaged 12.6 points, 6.3 rebounds and 8.7 assists per game with his team.

His son, TJ Kidd talked about LeBron, Johnson and Pippen.

“That’s a good question,” he said of the similarities between LeBron and Johnson. “First of all, LeBron has my dad beaten athletically. We’ll start with that because my dad isn’t going to dunk on anybody, but he’ll throw it to somebody who will! [laughs]… I think really my dad was more focused on getting everybody the ball and making his teammates better and LeBron also does that too and he’ll give you 25 or 30, where my dad really didn’t care for that. But I would say that LeBron favors more of Magic. But all three are all-time greats.”