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Former Duke star and current Orlando Magic forward recently discussed the current crop of NBA stars and the rising young players poised to make their mark on the league in an interview with Rich Kleiman of Boardroom.

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I feel like I'm a basketball historian.

I've always studied the game in the 80s and 90s.

There wasn't that many NBA players that were known around the world when Michael Jordan came, you know, after Bird and Magic, like he kind of took it over and became just the face when LeBron and Kobe came, they kind of carried it.

Bron obviously kind of ran with it.

He's dealt with a lot of criticism and scrutiny and he's been nothing but tremendous and they always compared him to my.

with Jordan, you know, now whoever that next person is who they try to make that next person is only gonna be compared to LeBron, as good as the talent is in the league, like trying to measure a guy up to LeBron and Michael Jordan is like ridiculous almost whoever is looked at in that regard is gonna have to deal with the goods and the bad.

Certain guys want it, certain guys don't.

At the end of the day, I think it's always up to the fans or the kids.

I think it's an interesting point right now in the league.

where you know you got these kind of legends who've been here since the early 2000s.

They're still playing at a high level.

Steph just had 56 on us.

He's 36.

Secondary group Giannis, Yoic Che, and then there's like 23 and under group where it's like the Mead and Mobley, Cunningham, like it's just a bunch of us where we're all hungry to get to where those guys are at and start, you know, competing with those guys.

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