Maybe you're right. But I know Jordan would destroy in this current era, you're just being a schmuck if you try to suggest otherwise. And Bird was very much a superstar playing alongside the likes of him...
I mainly just meant in terms of his outside shooting, and everybody shoots threes like it's nothing these days. And then there's Stefan Curry, who is no more, and probably quite a bit less athletic or physically gifted than your average guard from the 80s, and he is one of the transcendent stars of this generation, and in a way he's not much more than a shorter version of his dad, a random name from the 80s NBA if there ever was one. He's just more confident and shoots way more often.
So it's a completely hypothetical exercise to make even the slightest serious contemplation about how someone from thirty years ago would play today. But in the case of MJ it's sufficiently laughable to suggest that he would be nothing more than some average player today, though that's where the logic inevitably goes from your typical.... we'll just call them douchebag fans like yourself, who I guess think you're all smart because you're so unsentimental about it. Even though your logic train on this subject, or whatever, is so simplistic and shallow, even though it may be correct. Thankfully it's utterly hypothetical, and no one will ever know, not even at all, just how well Larry Bird would fare if he played today......