Who’s the Greatest?—Bird, Magic, or MJ, 1988

[This is a long (but interesting) post, so I’ll keep this intro brief. Street & Smith’s 1988 Pro Basketball Yearbook asked the not-so-simple question: Who is the NBA’s greatest current NBA player? 

To answer this question, the magazine assembled some stellar writers to argue the case for each of the three candidates. The Boston Globe’s Bob Ryan starts th…