Tuesday, November 08, 2011

It's Magic

On 7 November 1991, Magic Johnson announced his retirement from basketball. He was 32, at which time, he'd already been MVP three times and won the NBA championship with the Lakers five times. I think I still have clippings of the Philippine Daily Inquirer's issue somewhere in the papers I've accumulated over the years.



Contrary to everyone's fears, he is still with us twenty years later. And, if such a thing is possible, he has actually managed to be a better person than he was a basketball player. (Skip to the 1:00 mark in the video below, for his press conference yesterday)



To this day, he remains my favorite Laker and basketball player of all time.  I'm so happy you are "managing" HIV, Magic, stay well.

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