Roughneck93
06-26-2012, 07:19 PM
20th anniversary is coming up. To help celebrate the occasion, Jack McCallum wrote the book "Dream Team", which goes on sale on July 10. The book pretty much chronicles the Dream Team's run through the 1992 Olympics. Interviews were given by all 12 members of the team, here's a snippet from Clyde Drexler on Magic Johnson...
“Magic was always…” And Drexler goes into a decent Magic impression: “‘Come on, Clyde, come on, Clyde, get with me, get with me,’ and making all that noise. And, really, he couldn’t play much by that time. He couldn’t guard his shadow.”
“But you have to have to understand what was going on then. Everybody kept waiting for Magic to die. Every time he’d run up the court everybody would feel sorry for the guy, and he’d get all that benefit of the doubt. Magic came across like, ‘All this is my stuff.’ Really? Get outta here, dude. He was on the declining end of his career.”
Drexler had played exquisitely in the 1992 All-Star Game in Orlando, although the MVP award eventually went to Magic, who had been added by Commissioner Stern as a special thirteenth player to the Western Conference roster. “If we all knew Magic was going to live this long, I would’ve gotten the MVP of that game, and Magic probably wouldn’t have made the Olympic team.”
Should be a great read, looking forward to it's release.
http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterockets/2012/06/in-dream-team-book-drexler-says-he-thought-magic-was-going-to-die/
(http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterockets/2012/06/in-dream-team-book-drexler-says-he-thought-magic-was-going-to-die/)
“Magic was always…” And Drexler goes into a decent Magic impression: “‘Come on, Clyde, come on, Clyde, get with me, get with me,’ and making all that noise. And, really, he couldn’t play much by that time. He couldn’t guard his shadow.”
“But you have to have to understand what was going on then. Everybody kept waiting for Magic to die. Every time he’d run up the court everybody would feel sorry for the guy, and he’d get all that benefit of the doubt. Magic came across like, ‘All this is my stuff.’ Really? Get outta here, dude. He was on the declining end of his career.”
Drexler had played exquisitely in the 1992 All-Star Game in Orlando, although the MVP award eventually went to Magic, who had been added by Commissioner Stern as a special thirteenth player to the Western Conference roster. “If we all knew Magic was going to live this long, I would’ve gotten the MVP of that game, and Magic probably wouldn’t have made the Olympic team.”
Should be a great read, looking forward to it's release.
http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterockets/2012/06/in-dream-team-book-drexler-says-he-thought-magic-was-going-to-die/
(http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterockets/2012/06/in-dream-team-book-drexler-says-he-thought-magic-was-going-to-die/)