New York: Random House, Johnson, Roy S. Magic's Touch. Reading, Mass. Toggle navigation. Early years Earvin Johnson Jr. Successful businesses Johnson enjoyed all-star success as a businessman. For More Information Blatt, Howard. User Contributions: 1. Living in new york was great until after he retired people went out to the street and churches praying. I'm doing a report on Magic Johnson I think he is amazing and shouldn't of let the disese affect his amazing basketball skills!
I will forever love Magic and his wife Cookie, they are the epitome of what a married couple should be. Magic if by any chance you and Cookie actually read these comments, please know that you and your family are always in my prayers. May God continue to bless you and your family. I have had the dream of meeting the two of you forever. Pacers Fan. Magic should have played with the Pacers!
Pacers are 3rd seed in the East NBA Playoff race and host the Cavaliers tonight I'm going of course what Pacers fan would want to miss this rivalry game. Shonte' Cox-Flowers. Magic Johnson is a man of many versatile talents. He will always be first known as the NBA player who was skilled on the courts and who came out to share his story about living with HIV.
Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: Name:. Just how great a basketball player was Johnson? So great, perhaps, that future generations of hoop fans may wish they had entered the world years earlier — just so they could have seen Magic play in person instead of watching him only on highlight reels.
Still, Earvin Johnson was even more than a revolutionary player, who, at 6-foot-9, was the tallest point guard in NBA history when he entered the league. His sublime talent elicited wonder and admiration from even the most casual basketball fan. Whether it was a behind-the-back pass to a streaking James Worthy, a half-court swish at the buzzer or a smile that illuminated an arena, everyone who saw Johnson play took with them an indelible memory of what they had witnessed.
From the moment he stepped onto the court, people pondered: How could a man so big do so many things with the ball and with his body? It was Magic. Johnson accomplished virtually everything a player could dream of during his year NBA career, all of which was spent with the Los Angeles Lakers.
He was a member of five championship teams. He won a gold medal with the original Dream Team at the Olympics in Barcelona. Unfortunately for the Big O, nobody had thought of the term triple-double back in the s. Johnson did all of this while maintaining a childlike enthusiasm born of a pure love of sport and competition. Beyond all the money, success and fame, Johnson was just happy to be playing basketball. He dazzled fans and dumbfounded opponents with no-look passes off the fastbreak, pinpoint alley-oops from halfcourt, spinning feeds and overhand bullets under the basket through triple teams.
When defenders expected him to pass, he shot. When they expected him to shoot, he passed. Born on August 14, , Earvin Johnson Jr. His father worked in a General Motors plant; his mother was a school custodian.
Young Earvin passed the time by singing on street corners with his buddies and, of course, by playing basketball. Then I slept with my basketball. He was given the nickname by a sports writer who had just seen the year-old prepster notch 36 points, 16 rebounds and 16 assists. As a senior, Johnson led Everett to a record and the state title while averaging Johnson wanted to attend college close to home, so he enrolled at Michigan State in East Lansing.
But, as he remembers the period shortly after the diagnosis, he thinks of those he relied on. There was, of course, his wife, Cookie — the love of his life, whom he had met at college and had recently married. The late actor Elizabeth Glaser, who herself contracted HIV after receiving a contaminated blood transfusion, encouraged his public advocacy. It was sobering, says Johnson, to see Dr Fauci out front and centre again, during the Covid pandemic.
I felt bad for him. He was put in a bad situation. For Johnson, seeing Fauci speak about a new epidemic while reflecting on the HIV crisis of the s has been sobering — the racial disparities in American healthcare are stark. Johnson, who was vaccinated in public in April to help combat hesitancy over the jab, feels history repeating itself with a sense of personal sadness.
We have a long way to go. J ohnson grew up in the midwestern city of Lansing, the state capital of Michigan. As a boy, he practised basketball relentlessly, encouraged by his father, who worked grinding shifts at a local General Motors plant. He taught him the art of aggressive, fast-paced basketball, and how to read the game.
He dreamed of the NBA from a young age. That same year, he was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame. After selling his stake in the Lakers in , Johnson joined an ownership group that purchased the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team in Johnson formally returned to the Lakers in early as president of basketball operations. He made a splash in July by signing megastar free agent LeBron James , but abruptly resigned his post at the end of the NBA season.
Johnson's son Earvin III was born in Johnson and his wife, Cookie, also have a daughter named Elisa, whom they adopted in We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Jack Johnson, nicknamed "the Galveston Giant," was the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion. Robert L. Shawn Johnson is a former American gymnast who won a gold medal for the balance beam at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
In , she was the winning contestant on 'Dancing with the Stars. One of NASA's human 'computers,' Katherine Johnson performed the complex calculations that enabled humans to successfully achieve space flight. Her story is depicted in the movie 'Hidden Figures. Lyndon B. Johnson was elected vice president of the United States in and became the 36th president in , following the assassination of John F. Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president and was the first president of the United States to be impeached.
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