The story of Magic Johnson's life: his boyhood, his high school and college careers, his meteoric rise to basketball fame as a Laker, his glamorous life on the road, his hopes, fears, fulfilments and regrets, and his diagnosis as HIV positive.
Earvin Majic Johnson Books
He is an American retired professional basketball player. After winning championships in high school and college, he was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA draft. 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 announcing that he had contracted HIV, but returned to play in the 1992 All-Star Game, winning the All-Star MVP Award. After protests from his fellow players, he retired again for four years, but returned in 1996, at age 36, to play 32 games for the Lakers before retiring for the third and final time.
