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John Link is the best basketball player to ever come out of Padua High School in Cleveland, OH and one of the best players in the history of Case Western Reserve University's Men's Basketball Program as well.  He currently works for OhioBasketball.com, and wrote the following for us here at Stepien Rules on Wednesday.Speaking in upstate New York to a group at the University of Albany, Magic Johnson managed to ignite the discussion forums again about who is better than who in the NBA. Normally Kobe Bryant and Lebron James are the discussion, or at least 2 of 3 or 4 names that are debated. Using championship rings as his benchmark, Johnson cut Lebron out of the discussion. Period. If I am 1 of 30 other GM’s in the NBA, I reluctantly find his comments a little more than mildly laughable. I view Magic’s attack on James as flawed in that championships will always be a retroactive argument. His inability to win a ring thus far should not define him nor take away from his ability...
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