re: Michael Jordan laughed at Kobe's comments

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Wasn't Bird's back pretty well shot by then? I was always under the impression that Bird was on that team more as a victory lap type deal than he was an integral piece?

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And btw, not that I think 12 would win by any means, but its things like that make it even harder to compare.

We see the names, and automatically think the prime version of those players, or at least I think most people do. Its much easier to see Kobe's current game v. his prime game because we're in that time, than it is to really think about what Bird or Magic's game was like in 92 v. their "highlight" packages.