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
The only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.
I'm gonna love my son until the end.
I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
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ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man; I am a vegetable man, anyway.
People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.