Magic Johnson blasts Anthony Edwards over dig at 90s NBA players

Magic Johnson had the perfect response to silence Anthony Edwards after the young star’s shot at 90s NBA players.

Magic Johnson clapped back at Anthony Edwards in the best way after the Timberwolves star took a dig at NBA players from the 1980s and 90s.

Edwards told the Wall Street Journal in a recent interview that he wasn’t too impressed with players from those eras of the game.

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Well, Johnson was told about the comment by Stephen A. Smith while appearing at the Yaamava Resort & Casino with the ESPN personality, as the New York Post reports.

That’s when Johnson fired back at Edwards.

“I never respond to a guy who’s never won a championship,” Johnson told Smith and the audience, which drew laughter from the crowd.

Magic didn’t hold back in his assessment of Anthony Edwards. (Photo by Meg Oliphant/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP)

Edwards (right) won an Olympic gold medal in Paris alongside Steph Curry and Team USA. (Photo by Damien MEYER / AFP)

“There’s not really anything to say. He didn’t win a college championship, I don’t know if he even won a high school championship.”

Johnson is certainly an authority in the game, having won five NBA titles with the Lakers.

And Edwards’ comments were enough to annoy some people in the basketball world, which seemingly included Johnson.

Edwards had told the WSJ that outside of Michael Jordan, no one in that era had much skill.

“I didn’t watch it back in the day so I can’t speak on it,” he said.

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Edwards and the Timberwolves reached the Western Conference Finals last season. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images)

“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.”

Edwards is coming off a season in which he averaged a career-high 25.9 points per game and helped the Timberwolves reach the Western Conference Finals.

However, the Timberwolves star is still in search of his first NBA title.

Edwards was part of the United States team that won gold at this month’s Paris Olympic Games.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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