He definitely could of played @ least three more years @ a high level but The Bulls were starting to take over the league. Magic and Bird saved basketball and Jordan revolutionized it. Magic and Bird were the ultimate team players that made everyone better. When Jordan starting starting playing team basketball he started winning.
Earvin Magic Johnson is the NBA's greatest player ever...A Point Guard yes 6 foot 9 ...Every year in the NBA Finals...I am a Celtic fan but after years of sadness losing to Lakers....I became a Magic fan after probably his career was over....Malone doesn't want Magic your right....With his leaping fro and what a smile always....I could learn a lot from Mr. Earvin Magic Johnson !!!! Thank you for letting me experience the greatness and Magic and regrettably Showtime ......
Because of the time zones between California and Hawaii, when the Showtime Lakers were playing, I had to be up at 3am Hawaii time just to watch them do their thing. Small price to pay to witness some of the greatest orchestrated basketball the game has ever known.
GOAT. Could score whenever he wanted., but would rather see a teammate score.Greatest passer ever, bar none. Top rebounding guard ever. Played all three positions in a championship game, and won. Michael was the best selfish player ever; Magic was the best unselfish player. I could pick an all-time team and have nothing but Lakers, and Magic would be my #1 pick. You can start with Jordan. Magic's team will win..
Loved both Larry Bird and Magic when I was growing up. Miss Showtime Lakers vs the Celtics. That was basketball in the 80's. Magic Johnson was one of the best of all time!! Still a phenomenal human being!
SHOWTIME WAS THE THING THAT BROUGHT THE NBA TO WHERE IT IS TODAY! THATS WAS SPARKED IN TV NETWORKS TO GET THE GAMES ON EVERY PRIME TIME!! THANK YOU MJ!!
@@reginaldpeters5142 On the assumption that you are trying to say that he didn't need any defense, well, that's far from true. Strong defense is one of the most important aspects of basketball, and it was what made some of the greatest players who ever played -- Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, and of course Michael Jordan. They were defensive players FIRST, and offensive players second.
I was a magic fan for who knows how long...finding out he had went to MSU, only helped me...I grew up only an HR north of Lansing..so just thinking that if it ever could happen when magic visits Lansing...I always wanted to try to meet him. I still want to meet him!!!!Go green go white
Magic Johnson is the greatest point guard who ever lived these young guys are really good but we can't forget the brand of Showtime basketball that Magic Johnson orchestrated on the court like a grand wizard
@@paeng46 Bird copied some of his passing skills from Magic look at what Danny Ainge said at 26:29 in this video hell even Bird admitted that he copied from Magic Johnson.
Being from Oregon and being a Portland Trailblazer fan my whole life I never like the Lakers. But I always always with a big fan of Magic Johnson. And when he got diagnosed with HIV it broke my heart. I've been playing basketball since I was a little kid all the way had to give it up a few years ago after multiple ankle surgeries. The first basketball I ever got as a kid was a Magic Johnson basketball and I think that's when I became aware of Magic Johnson I became a fan of his and I'm still am
I love the first part of this when Magic had to have his Afro just so. I loved watching the ABA games where the players were flashier, more exiting, etc. However, the 3 point line was first started by the ABL in 1961. Double WOW.
It is a amazing that he is still alive. Still, he rose to win a Olympic gold medal with a dream team. His basketball story starts and ends like his High school banner describes,
Larry the legend, free Bird with his limited athletic ability he's the baddest player I've seen, very intelligent. Like his basketball acumen was so broad and ranging
Before an accidental transition to football in high school, I had pattern my game after Magic, under the rim mostly at a mere 6'. My diving for loose balls and taking charges was the Bird in me. I would never force a shot. Others glory meant winning. I'm glad he made it what it all became for him and his family. I had the pleasure to see the home he built for his mother in Lansing. It was fun watching the Show. Now he's directing it. He's directing his own Show too. Seeing the origin in this documentary brings back memories. Especially being a forgetful GenXer. I remember having to wear dem lil ass shorts 🙄. And Chuck's. Js
The first basketball I ever received as a kid was a Magic Johnson Basketball my mother bought me. I’m a Portland Trail Blazers kind of gal And have been for the last 33 years. I am not a Laker fan but the only later that I really cared about was Magic Johnson. I was really sad and really scared for him when he got HIV in the fall of 1991 when he announced he had it. In my opinion it’s a tossup between him and John Stockton who was the best point guard in NBA history.
You know, I had such a negative experience meeting Earvin "Magic" Johnson in 1987. The Los Angeles Lakers had just defeated The Boston Celtics for the NBA Championship. My wife worked at NBC Studios in Burbank CA and she called me at home saying that "Magic" Johnson was appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. She asked me if I could drive down immediately to meet him and I said "of course"!!! I raced down the freeway from Northridge to meet this man I most admired in the NBA! When "Magic" emerged walking to his car, I went up to him and put out my hand to shake his hand. I looked up at him, my God he was so tall! I'm 5' 7" tall, and he shook my hand as I said "Congratulations on the title! Magic!" and he said "Thank You" and stared blankly ahead not even smiling that famous wonderful smile and I felt so humiliated and hurt because "Magic" didn't even bother to look down at me. I never forgot that bad experience. It tarnished my image of "Magic" being that wonderful, kind and humble man with the wonderful infectious smile. I now refuse to meet famous people!!!
Sometimes we have to realize that these people we idolize are just as human as we are. I’m from Lansing and I’ve met Magic several times and we don’t seem to understand the schedule of someone of that stature. Please realize he did speak and shook your hand still. But the focus of a person can sometimes come off wrong..
Bo kochanie mam mozg zmeczony i wszystkie organa i organella czujki oczki wechy .i szszczeki wieloryba wielkiego co co jeszcze i kosci pogryzie wszystkie kosci jakie spotka i pitrzebuja pomocy ale wzajemnej a nie bujanej bo koniki bujane to tylko dla DZIECI
Jhen Dela Rosa To this day, I think it's funny how Magic decided to single out Isiah and accuse him of spreading a rumor that was unfounded or unproven. When in reality, MANY players around the league had something to say about his illness behind his back and did not want to be on the same court with him. Karl Malone was the only person to voice it openly. And Clyde Drexler said it 20 years later in a book.
you have theses people who are like how dare he comes back he should just stay retired because this thing freedom of choice to try why does it hurt them if he wants to try and see if he still has it cause think if george forman would have never came back he never would have became the oldest heavyweight champ of all time that is why they don't listen to the sports writer who do not have what he does and that is a heart of champion cause by how they bitch they would quick
freedom of choice also includes airing one's opinion on things. people are free to say he shouldn't have comeback and he was free to ignore them just as you are free to air yours.
Magic was a GREAT basketball player but even a BETTER human being. I bet if he was an AVERAGE man, Cookie would have LEFT him once she found out he had HIV. Money has KEPT her with Magic for damn near 30 years.
This "documentary" was extremely disappointing. The producers spent far too much time yacking it up about the disease that ended Magics career... They didn't even think to cover the 1988 season where the L.A. Lakers became the first NBA team in 19 seasons to win back to back championships. That final series against the Detroit Pistons was some of the best basketball I have ever seen in my life... But the producers decided it was far more important to keep talking up the HIV thing over actually celebrating the fact that Magic did a lot more on the court then they showed in this biography. For example... Magic's Lakers teams made 8 Championship Finals appearances in the 1980's and they WON 5 TIMES out of 8. The politics of ESPN sucks. Hitting people over the head at the outset of this production with the AIDS thing was classless then returning to the same subject in the end was doubly classless. HIV never defined Magic Johnson's basketball career... But judging by the way that ESPN manipulated his story in this presentation it sure looks like that's how ESPN is trying to make their viewers think about Magic in the end. ESPN is full of crap. The ESPN producers are full of crap. This Bio was crap. :-I
You could not be more wrong. ESPN as much a piece of garbage as they are, Magic Johnson (who between him and Bird) Brought the NBA Out of almost complete and total failure and destruction, was seen as a Basic infallible superstar, living legend and basketball God!. Everyone knew of Magic and what he stood for, or so it seemed. It wasn't done to vilify him, is was shown that as Great a Basketball Player that Magic is and was, his persona as a Nice guy came to be overshadowed not just by his lies and disguising behavior off the court but the very fear that he placed within the NBA and all of its players that now had to focus on if their lives could be in danger just by any physical contact in a game with Johnson. If you were alive and watching at this time, it was solid news for over 2 years, and it caused severe problems at the Olympics as well.... Johnson after the public found out about his real lifestyle and his NBA players were scared to death. And Johnson tried to just act like it was nothing at the time. It caused total chaos and turned off lots of people. He almost completely ruined any hopes of ending his career gracefully and happily. Thats why ESPN did what they did, they told the truth, nothing more
@@alcondragon --- The NBA players that complained about Magic playing against them were the players that were on teams that went head to head with The Lakers on the regular in the playoffs. He scared the crap out of them (basketball wise) and they took the opportunity to complain because they knew they couldn't beat him on the court. They couldn't beat him on the floor so they used HIV to get him out. They used the illness as an excuse even though it was clear (even back then) that for anyone to catch the disease they and Magic would have to be cut at the same time and then literally Magic would have to bleed into their cut. The disease is sexually transmitted... Catching it on the basketball court is next to impossible. The nature of the disease does not work the way NBA players were claiming and THEY knew it. Doctors knew it. Guys like Kevin McHale and Karl Malone complained a lot because they just wanted Magic off the court for good because Magic always beat them. The whole thing was scare tactics using a disease that the people were told was going to be a worldwide pandemic that would kill millions of people but that pandemic just never really panned out. (pun intended). My point was that Magic's career was not centered around HIV (which strangely he doesn't have anymore so in reality he probably never had it in the first place) Magic has even fathered children since the diagnosis and his wife and children are all fine and don't have the disease. Which would be impossible if he actually had HIV because it is a sexually transmitted disease. You cannot have HIV, and have sex with your wife and not give the disease to your wife... You cannot have HIV and have your healthy (HIV negative) wife give birth to children that are also HIV negative It was a set-up. If Magic was really sick he would have died already from an HIV related illness. If anybody thinks AZT cured him (or some horse pill cocktail) they can think again because all that crap ever does is break down the human immune system even further and that makes people die faster. What the vast majority of people are told is the truth and the actual truth are always two different things... Most especially in Hollywood, sport entertainment, and the TELL-LIE-VISION overall as a rule. They had to get rid of Magic if they were going to ride the Michael Jordan train deeper into the 1990's... Jordan never would have been Air Jordan with Magic Johnson in the league. So they told Magic he was sick with HIV because the league new he was Bi-sexual and had a habit of sleeping with male to female transgenders. So people in the league took steps to eliminate Magic altogether from the competition because his sexuality was his weakness... He had no weaknesses on the Basketball court. Because Magic probably would have played 20 seasons and kept dominating throughout... And the league didn't want the Lakers to dominate the 90's like they did in the 80's. League commissioner David Stern wanted Chicago (Murder incorporated) to finally cash in on Jordan after just less than a decade of nothing. Like I said... If Magic was really sick with HIV he'd of died somewhere around 2000, his wife would have got the disease when she was impregnated by him, and his children that were born after the diagnosis would have been born with HIV... None of that happened. It was a political hit job that was really meant to manipulate and scare the crap out of the masses and open the door for the Air Jordan show in the 1990's. Magic was the best basketball mind to ever play the game. Nobody understood the game better or ran a team on the floor like Magic did for 14 seasons. Magic is truly the greatest point guard/floor general/passer to ever play the game and freaking BS ESPN played politics and fear mongering to drill into peoples minds that Magic was sick... But oops.... Somebody forgot to tell Magic he was supposed to die from the disease they told him he had... But most likely he never had that disease or he would have died a very long time ago. :-I
@@deano.7533 that was mean. I'm a Jordan fan but I also like Magic. Ruining one's life to that extreme is just mean. I somehow believe it b/c it often happens in this world.
John stockton had the longevity and toughness, he also ran the pick and roll way better, he also had a better mid range and 3 pointer and stealing ability. Magic had the better court vision, passing ability. He could drive more effectively and could lay in shots with better control. Overall they are almost equal in their differences. I'd take magic 8/10. John is a fantastic franchise PG. You get 20 years of solid, dedicated work. So if you want a PG that lasts 8 or so more seasons take him
Zawsze co mysle to pusze a ja jestem for sure fals negatywba w 100 0procentach chociaz chodzidz nie moglam jak. Wirusek przenikal. Barerke oslonna. Szlam i padalakam jak podali dawke nie konska ale sloniowa. I to moi kokedzy znad miedzy i co wy nato bato tez mnie juz nie pyta bo rozwalone .....
Dwight Love magic made everyone else on his team better. He made the whole team a better team by how he played the game . He is the greatest team player and all around basketball player there is or has ever been. He could play any position on the court and play it well . He wasn’t just a one position player and he didn’t just play for himself he made everybody look good and gave everyone a piece of the spot light it was never just about magic . Best all around player ever .
Dick Enberg the PLAY BY PLAY MAN did a interview in the USA NEWSPAPER on the 30 yr anniversary of the game between MSU@ISU Enberg said that was MOST BORING GAME HE EVER WITNESSED!!!!!!!
Like you’ve never made a big mistake, and you’ll never have tons of (or any for that matter) women trying to fuck you either so you’d never have any idea how easy it is to make a mistake.
Its not a sense of anything lol being famous and a athlete many women will come at you and will sleep with you and throw themselves at you because you are famous.Nothing wrong with bedding many women he was just careless and didnt use protection when he should been ,especially when you have a wife and children
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To me magic always seemed like the nicest guy in the world. Always smiling.
Magic was very competitive it was shown in the mini series WINNING TIME
Behind that smile was a ruthless competitor who would slit your throat to win.
@@slydEvil35 Once he hit the court that smile disappeared faster than Jimmy Hoffa at a mob convention.
Magic coming in was the greatest thing for Kareem who hated attention.
He is truly the Goat he had at least 5 more years and 2 to 3 championship left in him.
He definitely could of played @ least three more years @ a high level but The Bulls were starting to take over the league. Magic and Bird saved basketball and Jordan revolutionized it. Magic and Bird were the ultimate team players that made everyone better. When Jordan starting starting playing team basketball he started winning.
Erving Johnson wasn't Jud Heathcote's first "Big" point guard. He had Michael Ray Richardson while coach of Montana.
My fav basketball player n one of my fav athletes.
Original 6 feet point 9 inch point guard in the NBA
Earvin Magic Johnson is the NBA's greatest player ever...A Point Guard yes 6 foot 9 ...Every year in the NBA Finals...I am a Celtic fan but after years of sadness losing to Lakers....I became a Magic fan after probably his career was over....Malone doesn't want Magic your right....With his leaping fro and what a smile always....I could learn a lot from Mr. Earvin Magic Johnson !!!! Thank you for letting me experience the greatness and Magic and regrettably Showtime ......
this is a terrific documentary, the best i've seen! :-)
This Is Just Awesome...One Love Fam...
Because of the time zones between California and Hawaii, when the Showtime Lakers were playing, I had to be up at 3am Hawaii time just to watch them do their thing. Small price to pay to witness some of the greatest orchestrated basketball the game has ever known.
GOAT. Could score whenever he wanted., but would rather see a teammate score.Greatest passer ever, bar none. Top rebounding guard ever. Played all three positions in a championship game, and won. Michael was the best selfish player ever; Magic was the best unselfish player. I could pick an all-time team and have nothing but Lakers, and Magic would be my #1 pick. You can start with Jordan. Magic's team will win..
Magic for President.
Loved both Larry Bird and Magic when I was growing up. Miss Showtime Lakers vs the Celtics. That was basketball in the 80's. Magic Johnson was one of the best of all time!! Still a phenomenal human being!
If I had the first pick all-time Magic would be my first, without hesitation
GOAT point guard
The GOAT
The BEST
People say Magic Johnson is 6’9” but he’s actually 6’8”. He’s an inch shorter than Larry Bird who is truly 6’9”.
Yes Larry Bird is 6 " 9 Magic Johnson 6 " 7 in half 6" 8 "
Magic Johnson is awesome
SHOWTIME WAS THE THING THAT BROUGHT THE NBA TO WHERE IT IS TODAY! THATS WAS SPARKED IN TV NETWORKS TO GET THE GAMES ON EVERY PRIME TIME!! THANK YOU MJ!!
Magic is a legend
True, But he didn't have much defense.
Sean Felder revolutionizes the point guard position eing 6 foot 9 inches made other big men want to handle the basketball
@@lwmson he didn't have to still greatest point guard ever !
@@reginaldpeters5142 On the assumption that you are trying to say that he didn't need any defense, well, that's far from true. Strong defense is one of the most important aspects of basketball, and it was what made some of the greatest players who ever played -- Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, and of course Michael Jordan. They were defensive players FIRST, and offensive players second.
@@lwmson still the greatest with out defense screw what u talking about
Every day he lit
I was a magic fan for who knows how long...finding out he had went to MSU, only helped me...I grew up only an HR north of Lansing..so just thinking that if it ever could happen when magic visits Lansing...I always wanted to try to meet him. I still want to meet him!!!!Go green go white
Magic was a great basketball player I wanted to play like Magic Johnson so much that I made up my nick name Da Mexican magicman
This brought back so many memories thank you for the video posting.... Lakers fan since 1971
I had a pair of MAGICS and BIRDS. 🥂💪💪
45 yrs later magic is still alive and looks even healthier than he did back then.....cookie stayed with dude....wow..👀👀
45 years ???? 29 years since 1991
@@bb-gc2tx maff
Magic Johnson is the greatest point guard who ever lived these young guys are really good but we can't forget the brand of Showtime basketball that Magic Johnson orchestrated on the court like a grand wizard
Amen. A true team player
No..Don't say the Grand Wizard.
I like Larry Bird passing skills better than Magic.
Original 6 feet 8 inches point guard
@@paeng46 Bird copied some of his passing skills from Magic look at what Danny Ainge said at 26:29 in this video hell even Bird admitted that he copied from Magic Johnson.
Original 6 feet 9 point guard of the NBA; change basketball forever
Magic 🎩Johnson :showtime fastbreak offense ; running rebel offense
Being from Oregon and being a Portland Trailblazer fan my whole life I never like the Lakers. But I always always with a big fan of Magic Johnson. And when he got diagnosed with HIV it broke my heart. I've been playing basketball since I was a little kid all the way had to give it up a few years ago after multiple ankle surgeries. The first basketball I ever got as a kid was a Magic Johnson basketball and I think that's when I became aware of Magic Johnson I became a fan of his and I'm still am
Magic vs Bird- as a Gen Xer that’s all I needed to become a sports fan.
Michigan ❤❤
One of my favourite player all time
Who is watching this during the quarantine 2020
One of my favourite player All Time,...👊👊👊👊👊👊❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝👍👍👍👍👍👍🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
I fell out laughing when Ted Koppel started to talk about him at 37:15.
Simply put magic is the best player ever
Totally agree
Original 6 feet 8 inches point guard
I once played in a fantasy basketball league where one team was named "magic johnson's magic johnson"
I love the first part of this when Magic had to have his Afro just so. I loved watching the ABA games where the players were flashier, more exiting, etc. However, the 3 point line was first started by the ABL in 1961. Double WOW.
It is a amazing that he is still alive. Still, he rose to win a Olympic gold medal with a dream team. His basketball story starts and ends like his High school banner describes,
Class A
Magic: "I wanted to be the best that he wanted to be the best"
Me: y'all were both the best!!!
Charles Barkley couldn't have said it better. 💪💪💪
My Chuck🥰🥰🥰
Period...One Love Fam...
Point God
Magic
Legend 👍!
Jordan+Magic+Bird=🐐🐐🐐
Khutisha Khutisha Add Isiah Thomas
Forever legends
Magic Bird Kobe
Russell+Bird+Magic+Jordan= 🐐🐐🐐🐐
Larry the legend, free Bird with his limited athletic ability he's the baddest player I've seen, very intelligent. Like his basketball acumen was so broad and ranging
Is he Magic🏀🏀💯💯
THE 🐐!
Before an accidental transition to football in high school, I had pattern my game after Magic, under the rim mostly at a mere 6'. My diving for loose balls and taking charges was the Bird in me. I would never force a shot. Others glory meant winning. I'm glad he made it what it all became for him and his family. I had the pleasure to see the home he built for his mother in Lansing. It was fun watching the Show. Now he's directing it. He's directing his own Show too. Seeing the origin in this documentary brings back memories. Especially being a forgetful GenXer. I remember having to wear dem lil ass shorts 🙄. And Chuck's. Js
Whatever dude
those are my lakers.. all star team of the 80s. but i do regret that sir charles never got a ring. he is an unsung hero of the nba.
Magic 🎩Johnson 5 nba championship/ Larry bird 🐦 3 nba basketball championships
Both dynasties
WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU MAGIC, PLEASE DON'T FORGET THAT! THIS IS A POLITICAL DISEASE AND IT'S SAD THAT YOU WAS A PERSON TO GET IT, LOVE YOU MAGIC!
Damn looks like EJ @6:16
It’s considered the Celtics-Lakers rivalry for a reason all they want to do is win
Andrew Rand
Greatest Rivalry in the history of the NBA
1980s r Boston Celtics vs l.a Lakers! Greatest basketball series ever nba ;; magic 🎩Johnson showtime fastbreak offense;; running rebel
Thanks doctor serbie
I feel like had it not been for his enforced retirement he would of won 8 titles
Ultimate team player!
The first basketball I ever received as a kid was a Magic Johnson Basketball my mother bought me. I’m a Portland Trail Blazers kind of gal And have been for the last 33 years. I am not a Laker fan but the only later that I really cared about was Magic Johnson. I was really sad and really scared for him when he got HIV in the fall of 1991 when he announced he had it. In my opinion it’s a tossup between him and John Stockton who was the best point guard in NBA history.
1:22 _Glory_ 🎼🥺
!
Ps Much Gratitude.
The best nickname in pro 🏀 ⚽️ 🏈 and backed it up b/c he made the comp disappear like a magician in his prime.
It’s easy to score 25 points in an all star game when no one wants to guard you.
6 woman at one time whos fantasy was that?
magic: both!....well that one was probably more mine
Rip dr buss
Why David Aldridge, look like carlton?!😂😂😂
Wow! He’s like Ronaldino
God had a bigger plan for Magic, thats why he is still alive.
Lol sup with the music? He's not dead yet.
It's too bad his Lakers were banged up in the 1991 finals against the Bulls. Go out on top, win 6.
They had to let the bulls take the torch
Judge not lest ye be judged
You know, I had such a negative experience meeting Earvin "Magic" Johnson in 1987. The Los Angeles Lakers had just defeated The Boston Celtics for the NBA Championship. My wife worked at NBC Studios in Burbank CA and she called me at home saying that "Magic" Johnson was appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. She asked me if I could drive down immediately to meet him and I said "of course"!!! I raced down the freeway from Northridge to meet this man I most admired in the NBA! When "Magic" emerged walking to his car, I went up to him and put out my hand to shake his hand. I looked up at him, my God he was so tall! I'm 5' 7" tall, and he shook my hand as I said "Congratulations on the title! Magic!" and he said "Thank You" and stared blankly ahead not even smiling that famous wonderful smile and I felt so humiliated and hurt because "Magic" didn't even bother to look down at me. I never forgot that bad experience. It tarnished my image of "Magic" being that wonderful, kind and humble man with the wonderful infectious smile. I now refuse to meet famous people!!!
Sometimes we have to realize that these people we idolize are just as human as we are. I’m from Lansing and I’ve met Magic several times and we don’t seem to understand the schedule of someone of that stature. Please realize he did speak and shook your hand still. But the focus of a person can sometimes come off wrong..
It's possible that he had something going on and it wasn't intended to be disrespectful towards you.
Did anybody like Lary Bird?
Magic 🎩 Johnson showtime fastbreak 5 nba basketball championships 1980s/ Larry 🐦bird 3 nba basketball championships 1980s
Magic Johnson is the only Laker I have respect for bc of his HIV diagnoses
Andrew Rand BC of his HIV and not his play. FFS
Well arent you fucking stupid 😂
Bo kochanie mam mozg zmeczony i wszystkie organa i organella czujki oczki wechy .i szszczeki wieloryba wielkiego co co jeszcze i kosci pogryzie wszystkie kosci jakie spotka i pitrzebuja pomocy ale wzajemnej a nie bujanej bo koniki bujane to tylko dla DZIECI
Karl malone doesnt want to play magic...thats why he doesnt have rings
Jhen Dela Rosa To this day, I think it's funny how Magic decided to single out Isiah and accuse him of spreading a rumor that was unfounded or unproven. When in reality, MANY players around the league had something to say about his illness behind his back and did not want to be on the same court with him. Karl Malone was the only person to voice it openly. And Clyde Drexler said it 20 years later in a book.
Holy shit, you are a truly demented individual.
He doesn't have a ring because of the other MJ ,Michael Jordan
Cookie and Magic look more like brother and sister rather than husband and wife.
joe jones That's what happens when you find your soul mate...you take on each other's physical characteristics.
Joe Jones please STFU
76ers head coach hated magic because he should’ve stayed in college😂😂😂 LOL he beat you in the finals i’m sure you would’ve beloved it if he did
you have theses people who are like how dare he comes back he should just stay retired because this thing freedom of choice to try why does it hurt them if he wants to try and see if he still has it cause think if george forman would have never came back he never would have became the oldest heavyweight champ of all time that is why they don't listen to the sports writer who do not have what he does and that is a heart of champion cause by how they bitch they would quick
freedom of choice also includes airing one's opinion on things. people are free to say he shouldn't have comeback and he was free to ignore them just as you are free to air yours.
I was just thinking that same thing while watching this. Like who are they to say what someone especially of Magic's caliber, should or shouldn't do
Magic was a GREAT basketball player but even a BETTER human being. I bet if he was an AVERAGE man, Cookie would have LEFT him once she found out he had HIV. Money has KEPT her with Magic for damn near 30 years.
True that
that woman @32:50 really pissed me off. obviously someone gave it to him.
She's just mad cause he didn't bang her she wanted him just all the others
why does Bob Costas have Gumby and Pokey lips ? Big question that needs an answer ?
Po powitrze ide na jatdu
So nice banged 2000 women 🤣
This "documentary" was extremely disappointing. The producers spent far too much time yacking it up about the disease that ended Magics career... They didn't even think to cover the 1988 season where the L.A. Lakers became the first NBA team in 19 seasons to win back to back championships. That final series against the Detroit Pistons was some of the best basketball I have ever seen in my life...
But the producers decided it was far more important to keep talking up the HIV thing over actually celebrating the fact that Magic did a lot more on the court then they showed in this biography. For example... Magic's Lakers teams made 8 Championship Finals appearances in the 1980's and they WON 5 TIMES out of 8. The politics of ESPN sucks. Hitting people over the head at the outset of this production with the AIDS thing was classless then returning to the same subject in the end was doubly classless.
HIV never defined Magic Johnson's basketball career... But judging by the way that ESPN manipulated his story in this presentation it sure looks like that's how ESPN is trying to make their viewers think about Magic in the end. ESPN is full of crap. The ESPN producers are full of crap. This Bio was crap. :-I
You could not be more wrong. ESPN as much a piece of garbage as they are, Magic Johnson (who between him and Bird) Brought the NBA Out of almost complete and total failure and destruction, was seen as a Basic infallible superstar, living legend and basketball God!. Everyone knew of Magic and what he stood for, or so it seemed. It wasn't done to vilify him, is was shown that as Great a Basketball Player that Magic is and was, his persona as a Nice guy came to be overshadowed not just by his lies and disguising behavior off the court but the very fear that he placed within the NBA and all of its players that now had to focus on if their lives could be in danger just by any physical contact in a game with Johnson. If you were alive and watching at this time, it was solid news for over 2 years, and it caused severe problems at the Olympics as well.... Johnson after the public found out about his real lifestyle and his NBA players were scared to death. And Johnson tried to just act like it was nothing at the time. It caused total chaos and turned off lots of people. He almost completely ruined any hopes of ending his career gracefully and happily. Thats why ESPN did what they did, they told the truth, nothing more
@@alcondragon --- The NBA players that complained about Magic playing against them were the players that were on teams that went head to head with The Lakers on the regular in the playoffs. He scared the crap out of them (basketball wise) and they took the opportunity to complain because they knew they couldn't beat him on the court. They couldn't beat him on the floor so they used HIV to get him out. They used the illness as an excuse even though it was clear (even back then) that for anyone to catch the disease they and Magic would have to be cut at the same time and then literally Magic would have to bleed into their cut. The disease is sexually transmitted... Catching it on the basketball court is next to impossible. The nature of the disease does not work the way NBA players were claiming and THEY knew it. Doctors knew it.
Guys like Kevin McHale and Karl Malone complained a lot because they just wanted Magic off the court for good because Magic always beat them. The whole thing was scare tactics using a disease that the people were told was going to be a worldwide pandemic that would kill millions of people but that pandemic just never really panned out. (pun intended). My point was that Magic's career was not centered around HIV (which strangely he doesn't have anymore so in reality he probably never had it in the first place) Magic has even fathered children since the diagnosis and his wife and children are all fine and don't have the disease. Which would be impossible if he actually had HIV because it is a sexually transmitted disease. You cannot have HIV, and have sex with your wife and not give the disease to your wife... You cannot have HIV and have your healthy (HIV negative) wife give birth to children that are also HIV negative
It was a set-up. If Magic was really sick he would have died already from an HIV related illness. If anybody thinks AZT cured him (or some horse pill cocktail) they can think again because all that crap ever does is break down the human immune system even further and that makes people die faster. What the vast majority of people are told is the truth and the actual truth are always two different things... Most especially in Hollywood, sport entertainment, and the TELL-LIE-VISION overall as a rule.
They had to get rid of Magic if they were going to ride the Michael Jordan train deeper into the 1990's... Jordan never would have been Air Jordan with Magic Johnson in the league. So they told Magic he was sick with HIV because the league new he was Bi-sexual and had a habit of sleeping with male to female transgenders. So people in the league took steps to eliminate Magic altogether from the competition because his sexuality was his weakness... He had no weaknesses on the Basketball court.
Because Magic probably would have played 20 seasons and kept dominating throughout... And the league didn't want the Lakers to dominate the 90's like they did in the 80's. League commissioner David Stern wanted Chicago (Murder incorporated) to finally cash in on Jordan after just less than a decade of nothing. Like I said... If Magic was really sick with HIV he'd of died somewhere around 2000, his wife would have got the disease when she was impregnated by him, and his children that were born after the diagnosis would have been born with HIV... None of that happened. It was a political hit job that was really meant to manipulate and scare the crap out of the masses and open the door for the Air Jordan show in the 1990's.
Magic was the best basketball mind to ever play the game. Nobody understood the game better or ran a team on the floor like Magic did for 14 seasons. Magic is truly the greatest point guard/floor general/passer to ever play the game and freaking BS ESPN played politics and fear mongering to drill into peoples minds that Magic was sick... But oops.... Somebody forgot to tell Magic he was supposed to die from the disease they told him he had... But most likely he never had that disease or he would have died a very long time ago. :-I
@@deano.7533 that was mean. I'm a Jordan fan but I also like Magic. Ruining one's life to that extreme is just mean. I somehow believe it b/c it often happens in this world.
John vs magic who's better
Shutup!
Wis Dom no you shut up
i'd take both . haha make magic 2 guard or sub one for the other .. different players ..
Magic no doubt !!!6 foot 8 or 9 Point Guard ..The greatest ever !!!
John stockton had the longevity and toughness, he also ran the pick and roll way better, he also had a better mid range and 3 pointer and stealing ability. Magic had the better court vision, passing ability. He could drive more effectively and could lay in shots with better control.
Overall they are almost equal in their differences. I'd take magic 8/10. John is a fantastic franchise PG. You get 20 years of solid, dedicated work. So if you want a PG that lasts 8 or so more seasons take him
Zawsze co mysle to pusze a ja jestem for sure fals negatywba w 100 0procentach chociaz chodzidz nie moglam jak. Wirusek przenikal. Barerke oslonna. Szlam i padalakam jak podali dawke nie konska ale sloniowa. I to moi kokedzy znad miedzy i co wy nato bato tez mnie juz nie pyta bo rozwalone .....
A ja z bykami czy z dzieciakami nie wuem one ☝
Magic johnsons career didnt take a hit lol his career was great and he did what he did
Soo sex is bad.
We all don't have sex.
Don't you notice that he outlived everybody with HIV
It just amazes me that anybody pays good money to see todays nba game. The nba died in the 90s
It died after the Bulls Dynasty.... 6x nba champions ,two three peats
Paid
6 women at one time huh? Not for me, I’m more of a six times with 1 woman kinda man
AND... Magic didn't travel every time down the court like Lebron does.
only when LeBron's shooting arm is tired...
t a LeBron is the better defender obviously
Dwight Love magic made everyone else on his team better. He made the whole team a better team by how he played the game . He is the greatest team player and all around basketball player there is or has ever been. He could play any position on the court and play it well . He wasn’t just a one position player and he didn’t just play for himself he made everybody look good and gave everyone a piece of the spot light it was never just about magic . Best all around player ever .
AJ Johnson As does LeBron
Dwight Love I don't know
Dick Enberg the PLAY BY PLAY MAN did a interview in the USA NEWSPAPER on the 30 yr anniversary of the game between MSU@ISU Enberg said that was MOST BORING GAME HE EVER WITNESSED!!!!!!!
Cookie had a boyfriend when she met Magic. Sound like bad woman to me. She clearly went for the fame and money.
Wis Dom He did not force her to leave her ex boyfriend.
Magic is more than just fame and money. He Magic.
He got the magic stick
@@jamaladams1225 😂😂😂
Ill let you in on a hint. He don’t have AIDS.
Point shaving scandal cover up.
That’s why Jordan retired to play baseball.
Was a good player and got AIDS so irresponsible in the end.
Like you’ve never made a big mistake, and you’ll never have tons of (or any for that matter) women trying to fuck you either so you’d never have any idea how easy it is to make a mistake.
Its not a sense of anything lol being famous and a athlete many women will come at you and will sleep with you and throw themselves at you because you are famous.Nothing wrong with bedding many women he was just careless and didnt use protection when he should been ,especially when you have a wife and children
Did he cheat on his wife?
Duh. Still a 🐐
Do bears shit in wood?
Yes magic was a lady's man. He cheated on cookie many times. She was aware of it and still stayed with him.