Magic Johnson
Magic Johnson
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr.is an American retired professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Associationfor 13 seasons. After winning championships in high school and college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA draft by the Lakers. He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his rookie season, and won four more championships with the Lakers during the 1980s. Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth14 August 1959
CityLansing, MI
CountryUnited States of America
You always run a risk, but I think the positive outweighs the risks, ... Life itself is a risk. But I'm not worried about that. If I was concerned about that, I wouldn't be up here.
I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
I am and will always be a Laker for life.
I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.
Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.
To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.
And the road games would have been worse.
Probably impossible, almost, for the Lakers to make it with the road schedule they have.
Believe it or not, I was once just like you, ... I was sitting in a school just like this. I had dreams and goals just like you and never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be Magic Johnson.
The success we had back then or now doesn't mean we'll have that success five years from now, ... We don't have any competition. That's the main thing.
I thought it was going to be a team in January or February anyway because of all the new guys trying to learn the triangle. They're probably still on that timetable.