Sep
29
Nearly eleven months after he shocked the world with the announcement that he was HIV-positive and would retire from the game of basketball, Earvin “Magic” Johnson announced that he would make a comeback with the Los Angeles Lakers and to the league that he and Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics saved in the eighties.
Following his shocking and awakening retirement in November 1991, Johnson was voted to the 1992 NBA All- Star Game and won the game’s MVP Honors. He would also play with the 1992 Dream Team, the greatest talent of basketball players ever assembled, in the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, winning a gold medal and thus giving him a championship in high school, college, the pros and the Olympics.
After playing in some preseason games prior to the start of the 1992-1993 NBA season, Johnson’s comeback attempt would officially end in November of that year when the “Magic Man” cited personal reasons at a time in which some players were still skeptical and worried about being on the court with him.
Posted by Chris Maynard, chris@hoops4thesoul.com
