We’ve dominated sports and we’ve dominated entertainment, but our problem has been we’ve never been able to dominate money. We still don’t own our share of business, and it’s killing us. It’s killing our communities.
Earvin Johnson Jr. Quotes
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were – they still are – great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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Birth: | 14th August, 1959 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Basketball Player |
Magic Johnson is a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association for 13 seasons. After winning championships in high school and college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA Draft by the Lakers. 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.
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