Magic Johnson sits down with the official basketball of the NBA to talk about his favorite shot and moment of his storied career. Visit www.nba.com for more highlights.
Magic Johnson sits down with the official basketball of the NBA to talk about his favorite shot and moment of his storied career. Visit www.nba.com for more highlights.
Magic Johnson’s thoughts on Trading Some Key Laker players – “Now is the time to trade sone key Laker players” – May 7, 2011
Magic Johnson & Charles Barkley’s skills were on full display in this contest at the old Spectrum, where they both put up a mind boggling 30 & 20+! Boxscore: www.basketball-reference.com
Magic Johnson began his rookie season with the Los Angeles Lakers by leaping into the arms of team captain Kareem Abdul-Jabbar following a last-second victory over the Clippers on opening night. The Lakers’ center had to tell the exuberant rookie to calm down, there were still 81 games to go–and that was only the regular season. By the time the playoffs came, Abdul-Jabbar and the rest of the Lakers had caught Johnson’s enthusiasm, and they rode it to a Finals date against Julius Erving and the Philadelphia 76ers. The teams split the first four games before Abdul-Jabbar suffered a sprained ankle in Game 5, which the Lakers somehow managed to win anyway 108-103. Abdul-Jabbar limped his way to 14 points down the stretch. Game 6 looked like it would be a different story. When the team gathered at the airport for the flight to Philadelphia, Abdul-Jabbar stayed home. Not to worry, said Johnson, who boarded the plane and planted himself into Abdul-Jabbar’s customary front-row seat. He winked to coach Paul Westhead and then playfully announced to his teammates: “Never fear, EJ is here!” Johnson’s confidence lifted his team’s spirits, and then he backed it up with one of the most remarkable games in NBA Playoff history. He began by jumping the opening tap in Abdul-Jabbar’s place, then went on to play every position on the floor at one time or another, from his customary point guard role to Abdul-Jabbar’s pivot spot. Johnson scored 42 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and handed out 7 …
Learn of two fantastic players that set the NBA seasons of the 1980’s into motion and fuelled one of the greatest rivalries in NBA history: Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson and Larry Bird. (This is Part 1 of 3)
During halftime of the 1993 Finals between the Bulls and the Suns, Bob Costas talks to Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas about the Bulls’ and Michael Jordan’s place in history.
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Thebest sports talk show in the world: www.blogtalkradio.com Keep in mind that this was during the 1993 NBA finals BEFORE Jordan had led the Bulls to even 3 championships. ALL-TIME SCORING RECORDS: 1st Place: MJ, 24 scoring records 2nd Place: Wilt, 18 scoring records 3rd Place: Moot – Highest career scoring average: MJ 30.12 – Highest career playoff scoring average: MJ 33.4 – Highest career Finals scoring average: MJ 33.6 (min. 15 games) – Highest single season playoff average: MJ 43.7 – Highest single Finals series average: MJ 41.0 – Most Total Points Playoffs: MJ 5987 – Most seasons leading league in scoring: MJ 10 – Most seasons leading league in total points: MJ 11 – Most consecutive seasons leading in scoring: MJ, Wilt tied at 7 – Most 50 point games playoffs: MJ 8 – Most 40 point games playoffs: MJ 38 – Most 30 point games: MJ 563 – Most 30 point games playoffs: MJ 109 – Most consecutive 50 point games playoffs: MJ 2 – Most consecutive 45 point games playoffs: MJ 3 – Most consecutive 40 point games finals: MJ 4 – Most consecutive 30 point games finals: MJ 9 – Most consecutive 20 point games playoffs: MJ 60 – Most consecutive 20 point games finals: MJ 35 – Most consecutive double figures scoring: MJ 866 – Highest scoring game playoffs: MJ 63 – Most points in one half finals: MJ 35 – Oldest to score 50: MJ 51 at age 38 – Oldest to score 40: MJ 43 at age 40 Jordan won 10 scoring titles, 6 he won while making over 50% of his shots, Jordan led the league in steals …
This was the day after the 1991 NBA Finals. Magic has always been a class act.
Michigan State, coached by Jud Heathcote, won the national title with a 75-64 victory in the final game over Indiana State, coached by Bill Hodges. Magic Johnson of Michigan State was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. The final game marked the beginning of the rivalry between future Hall of Famers Johnson and Larry Bird. To this day, it remains the highest-rated game in the history of televised college basketball. Both Magic and Bird would enter the NBA in the fall of 1979, and the rivalry between them and their teams (respectively, the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics) was a major factor in the league’s renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s. The game also led to the “modern era” of college basketball, as it introduced a nationwide audience to a sport that was once relegated to second-class status in the sports world. This was the first tournament in which all teams were seeded by the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee. The top six seeds in each regional received byes to the second round, while seeds 7-10 played in the first round.