Magic Johnson, Magic Show

Former president Lakers, Magic Johnson (66 years of this August 14) It was perfectly managed to retire as businessmen, but these are the images of an extraordinary player, Lord of Showtime, which will remain engraved in our heads forever.

The three titles of the best NBA players came to the rosary of King of the Blind, forging for the rest of her life on Lakers and occupies a special place in the hearts of basketball fans worldwide. Especially because he won the disease she considered was fatal.

It was 7. November 1991: Magic Johnson announces him to influence AIDS And decides to end the career on the spot. Earvin promises to fight fiercely against the disease because he has always worked on a basketball court.

Six years earlier, American actor Rock Hudson was one of the first Hollywood celebrities who succumbed to the virus. And if the research progresses, it has not made progress that we know today. Hence the mixing caused news across the planet. It is even more than we do not discuss the basketball star because the league produces ten every year. Pillar versions of the Lakers Showtime account, Magic fascinated all sport lovers during the 80s.

The King of Show

Earvin Johnson He has always been a fighter, as he testified his five NBA titles (1980, 82, 85, 87, 88), his three titles of the best players in the league and his nine quotes in the first team of All-NBA. The prestigious list was opened in 1979. year with the Spartans of Michigan State. During the NCAA final against IndianaThe magic has the one who will become his lifetime rival: Larry Bird. However, all his life players, however, the magic will have the impression of running after Larry Legend. A few weeks before he got his first MVP award from the regular season, he said in “Los Angeles Times”: “Larry bird already has three, none. It’s good now …”

We have 1987. years. Leder Lakers had to wait eight years to win the most individual differences. Two others will follow in 1989. and 1990. years, two seasons in which Magic will miss the NBA title with Lakers. In 1989, Los Angeles flowed “bad boys” Detroit (0-4). The magic ended the injured year. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ends his career. In 1990. year, Lakers were dried by Phoenix (4-1) in the conference half-final. A year later, the rule of Michael Jordan begins with 4-1 success in the final. Magic in turn erased.

Chief of dreams

Fortunately, Barcelon’s Olympic gold will come to a small heart bald, like MVP Trophy Match Orlando All-Star in the same year (1992), responsible for emotion for the reasons we mentioned above (other such way we mentioned). Continuation is a failed experience at the edge of the Prosecutor as well as the match from coach in 1994. years in order to replace the Randy Pfund and return as a player in the 1995-96 season. year, after more than four years of interruption. We will never find the most famous smile in the NBA. The magician of the ball, the King of the Version Pat Riley, Prince Hollywood madly glamorous, the one who found in Larry the bird of his perfect antibodies.

“It’s necessary without stopping to chase your dreams, He explained the magic after the last return on the field. It’s mine to be my boss, a businessman achieved. So long as I couldn’t get there, I won’t live completely happy. »»

Happiness, Magic Johnson gave all the fans of basketball player thirteen seasons compiling more than 17,000 points, 6,500 jumps and more than 10,000 passes, whose art has become a real expert. For magic, no help was impossible. He found his teammates with his eyes closed. At stages of a counterattack, Johnson had fun to turn his head in the direction opposite the match to serve a blind ideally set partner (“does not look aisle”). On the other hand, Earvin was never a really shooter. Its best average point: 23.9 in 1986-87. The nickname “Magic” gave him a written presswithstanding when he was still on Licee d’Evett, in Lansing County near Detroit.

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The only Rookie in history has selected MVP finals

The claims in the 1980s, Abdul-Jabbar, worthy and the other Mcadoo was literally filled with couples. The showtime was really born in Los Angeles when Jerry BUS, the owner, brought seven new players in 1979, including Magic Johnson. Jack McKinney, at the same time set up for the coach, was led by a team in just 14 games. A victim of a cycling accident at the end of the year, Pereo is the worst. Paul Westhead took over the bench and led Lakers to the first of her five titles in the 80s.

Overlyism, Rookie Johnson enthusiasm laid the foundations of this first coronation. The first personal title is connected to the MVP trophy in the final against Philadelphia. A slice of history. Magic occupies the area of Abdul-JabbaraInjured in the ankle, at the point of revulsion 6 and compiles 42 points, 15 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 intercepts. Win 123-107. During this meeting, Johnson played almost all positions! His performance in this series remains one of the most amazing “in the history of the league. It is the only Rookie to conquer the title of the MVP final title.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar always mentions this anecdote: “That Season, We Played Our First Match Against The Clippers of San Diego. We Won Thanks to a Buzzer Shot From Me. Through Came To Type The Five With The Players Who Were Marked. At The End, It Was As If We Had Won The Nba Title … I Had Taken It Apart In The Locker Room to Explain to Him That There Were Still 81 Matches And That He Had To Calm Down. He Was Young, He Didn’t Know What a Nba Season Was. »»

Abdul-Jabbar ignored that he was dealing with the winner in his soul, Genius Playmaker, emerging.

Magic Johnson is looking for his coach’s head

The legend that will grow with a knife duels against Boston Larry Bird 80s. Saga decade. The one that will enable the NBA to be established as the main sports league and increase its popularity around the world. Magic-Bird, Los Angeles-Boston, it is a modern Greek tragedy. Endless rivalry. Magic will know the pleasures of the whistle in his room, the forum of Inglewood … After the injury and early elimination in 1. Roll of players (1-2 against Houston and Malone), magical returns to the steel mind. Swollen with a block. No doubt too. He no longer accepts the offensive Paul Vesthead systems, whose head is claiming – no word play – one evening defeat in Juta. He even threatens to leave the franchise if he doesn’t get the case. “Caprice star” for some. But Caprica Ekauca. A few days later, the assistant coach Pat Riley took the reins. Magic is a forum called the forum during the presentation of the player against Seattle. He will pay his blood blossom at high prices: he was neither selected nor for the match all-star as a starter …

“There was Michael and then the rest, it’s like to tell us”

Johnson will know everything quickly. Success. Glory. Money, with a $ 25 million contract. Whistles will not last long of this Storm year, will offer a new title in Los Angeles (4-2 against 76eri). The magic game is great as confusing. Very large for leader (2.05 m), Johnson compensates for his lack of speed with perfect basis. Above all, they understand what they remained incompetent. The blind passages are all stabs. Improved so many cheeks, the defense remains powerless.

Of course, Magic Johnson Comits Bourdes, especially during the finals in 1984. years against Boston (during Matches 2, 4 and 7), but his aura will remain intact. Especially since the next season, he revenge on those Celticians. In 1987, it is a great year for gender in Lansing, Michigan (MVP leagues, NBA name, MVP finals), which was never so much of the scorers. Kings paid the price for their anger, one evening madness where 46 points would be, his record of his career. Magic will win the last NBA title in 1988. in the famous return back against Detroit. But the pistons are ready to rule in return. Like Chicago, where Michael Jordan, grow in shadows, is expecting his time. The plants will, therefore, be held in 1991. years, in five games. 9. Earvin Johnson finals in twelve seasons! In front of Prodiga Jordan, magic will always be very humble. “He was Michael, and then the rest, that’s to say.” »

However, however, most NBA players and a million fans around the world set up magic above Gotha. Player 12 times with an all-star who had magic in his hands and whose MVP Trophy of Conference Final The west is named.

Champion NBA : 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988.

MVP: 1987, 1989, 1990

MVP DES FINALS : 1980, 1982. et 1987.

Festive person : 11 times, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992.

The All-NBA team first : 9 times, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990. and 1991

La Dream Team 1992

How to read statistics? MJ = game is; Min = minutes; Snapshots = successful shots / tempted recordings; 3PTS = 3 points / 3 points attempt; LF = successfully free throws / tempted free throws; Off = offensive leap; Def = Defensive Jump; Tot = total jumps; PD = helps; FTE: Personal errors; Int = interception; Bp = lost bullets; CT: against; PTS = points.