OT: Tom Brady and Magic Johnson - The impossible is possible
August 10th, 2015 at 10:11 PM ^
For whatever reason, Magic always seemed like a straight shooter. It is unfortunate that he had to curtail his NBA playing career.
August 10th, 2015 at 10:13 PM ^
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August 10th, 2015 at 11:05 PM ^
it's that Magic had to 'curtail' his NBA career; it was chasing after (and catching) tail that made him give it up.
August 10th, 2015 at 11:10 PM ^
And "straight shooter"
August 10th, 2015 at 10:21 PM ^
Yes, as it was an easy layup, but nevertheless it was nice to see him rebound from that setback and score big in the world of business.
August 10th, 2015 at 10:34 PM ^
And he scores points in my book as Magic has never ran a-foul of the law and over time he has never passed on the chance to assist others in the business world.
August 10th, 2015 at 10:59 PM ^
I pos'd you just to watch you go over 20000 points. It looked cool, like when your odometer goes over 100,000 miles.
August 10th, 2015 at 11:11 PM ^
Thanks and upvote! Hopefully I can return the favor at your 50k.
August 11th, 2015 at 6:51 AM ^
50K. That makes me feel old. I'd like to think I'm not a point over 29K.
I'm going to have a midlife crisis and start hanging out at RCMB.
August 11th, 2015 at 7:27 AM ^
Well how old does that make me feel?
August 11th, 2015 at 7:44 AM ^
You should be dead.
If you were bad, your soul goes to 11W. if you were good, it goes to the original MZone.
August 11th, 2015 at 1:17 AM ^
I pos'd you just to watch you go over 45955 points. Not that it looked cool or anything.
August 11th, 2015 at 7:29 AM ^
Well... there was the one time his personal flight attendant sued him because he wanted a younger attendant to "service" him on flights.
August 10th, 2015 at 11:26 PM ^
He still managed to play 12 1/2 seasons, which is a nice career if not quite as long as he'd have ideally liked.
August 10th, 2015 at 10:11 PM ^
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August 10th, 2015 at 10:17 PM ^
So he was in Patriots territory. Also, they're potentially GOATs at their position. There's a certain level of respect that goes beyond alumni status when you're in that level of greatness.
If this was Delvon Roe or someone else who hasn't done anything since graduation, then I would expect a trolling comment.
August 10th, 2015 at 11:05 PM ^
I'm sure Chris Webber would have said 3.5 years for shooting oneself was bullshit in Plaxico's case...this is a bit of a stretch.
I don't doubt that there is rivalrybetween the schools...but across sports...between two hall-of-famers...even if Magic felt differently,what else do you expect him to say? He's a Sparty fan but I also can't remember him every disparaging Michigan
August 10th, 2015 at 11:50 PM ^
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August 11th, 2015 at 12:26 AM ^
My dad used to say that Magic wanted to go to Michigan...however because he was from EL that there was a ton of pressure for him to stay home.
August 11th, 2015 at 8:07 AM ^
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August 11th, 2015 at 12:36 AM ^
August 11th, 2015 at 8:16 AM ^
We’re all competitors,” Johnson said, per The Providence Journal. “We don’t want to see New England without Tom Brady. If you’re a great football team and a great football player, you want to have them at their best. It’s like me saying, ‘Larry Bird, please, (NBA), disqualify him and make him sit down!’ No. I didn’t want that. I wanted Larry Bird, I wanted (Kevin) McHale, I wanted (Robert) Parish, I wanted (Dennis Johnson), I wanted (Scott) Wedman off the bench, I want (Cedric) Maxwell, I want M.L. Carr waving that damn towel around. I wanted everybody.
In addition, count Johnson in the camp with others who believe there was no appreciable effect on the game due to the underinflation of balls. He said that he believe players decide these games ultimately, not balls, videos, etc...
As a note to the OP, I can totally see Johnson feeling this way about it, Spartan or not. I don't really think there are that many fellow athletes that couldn't rise above rivalries on this issue.