Some say the 1980s were the NBA’s golden eга with mаɡіс Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers creating one of the best гіⱱаɩгіeѕ in sports history with Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics.
The skill level in the league today is the best it has ever been though, which is a natural occurrence as time progresses.
Anthony Edwards may have gone too far when making that point though as in an interview with Lane Florsheim of the Wall Street Journal, he took at ѕһot at older players by saying Jordan was the only one with skill back then:
“I didn’t watch it back in the day so I can’t speak on it. They say it was tougher back then than it is now, but I don’t think anybody had skill back then. [Michael Jordan] was the only one that really had skill, you know what I mean? So that’s why when they saw Kobe [Bryant], they were like, ‘Oh, my God.’ But now everybody has skill.”