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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar weighs in on Warriors vs. Showtime Lakers

CLEVELAND -- Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy became the latest Showtime Los Angeles Lakers to give the edge to their own team over the Warriors.

"The physicality that we played (with), it would be pretty easy to beat them," Worthy told SiriusXM."I think the Showtime teams had guys on that team who could defend on the perimeter," Abdul-Jabbar said on The Dan Patrick Show. "Guys don't go to college now. They don't learn how to play defense out away from the basket."They would be a great team in any era, but if they played in ours .