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76ers Head Coach Brett Brown Watched Film Of Lakers Legend Magic Johnson With Ben Simmons

NBA players are like snowflakes in that no two are exactly the same. It’s why pre-draft comparisons that tout players such as Ben Simmons as the next LeBron James or Magic Johnson are almost always overzealous displays of hyperbole.

The reasons those comparisons are made is less because those players are guaranteed to become as good as that next great, though. They’re usually just shorthand to give fans an idea of what that players’s game resembles.

That’s because there are similarities between stars of various generations, and players of one time period can always learn a thing or two from those that came before.