Magic Johnson to Anthony Edwards: 'You might want to talk trash when you've won something'

Earvin "Magic" Johnson was a guest Thursday night on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," and the host asked the former Los Angeles Lakers great about remarks Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards made recently regarding current NBA talent compared to the talent from Magic's era.

"They say it was tougher back then than it is now, but I don't think anybody had skill back then," Edwards told the Wall Street Journal . [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."

"Thanks a lot, Anthony," Johnson told Kimmel. "I think he should've asked somebody, maybe his father or his grandfather about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dr. J., Isiah Thomas, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Clyde Drexler, all these guys, Dominique Wilkins. We had some of the most dominant players that's ever played. … Also, too, you might want to talk trash when you've won something. You know, if this came from some of the guys who just won on the Celtic team, OK, you might want to look at it. But you haven't won anything. If I'm Anthony Edwards, I'm concerned about the Dallas Mavericks , about OKC, about Boston, about all these great teams. … Concentrate, because you got beat by the Mavericks. You didn't make it to the championship. So I'm concentrating on that instead of what happened in a time you wasn't born."

The Timberwolves lost in the Western Conference finals. Middletown native Micah Nori , who earned his master's degree from Miami University, took over as Minnesota's head coach when Chris Finch injured his knee on the sideline.

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