1991-92 Hoops Magic Johnson USA Basketball Card #578
Unique card from 1992 Olympic Dream Team that featured several of the greatest basketball players ever on one team - Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, John Stockton, Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen ....
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Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). 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. 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.
Johnson's career achievements include three NBA MVP Awards, nine NBA Finals appearances, twelve All-Star games, and ten All-NBA First and Second Team nominations. He led the league in regular-season assists four times, and is the NBA's all-time leader in average assists per game, at 11.2.[3] Johnson was a member of the "Dream Team", the U.S. basketball team that won the Olympic gold medal in 1992. After leaving the NBA in 1992, Johnson formed the Magic Johnson All-Stars, a barnstorming team that travelled around the world playing exhibition games.[4]
Johnson was honored as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996, and enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002.[5] He was rated the greatest NBA point guard of all time by ESPN in 2007
Career information
High school Everett (Lansing, Michigan)
College Michigan State (1977–1979)
NBA draft 1979 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st overall
Selected by the Los Angeles Lakers
Playing career 1979–1991, 1996, 1999–2000
Position Point guard
Number 32
Career history
As player:
1979–1991, 1996 Los Angeles Lakers
1999–2000 Magic M7 Borås
2000 Magic Great Danes
As coach:
1994 Los Angeles Lakers
Career highlights and awards
As a player:
5× NBA champion (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988)
3× NBA Finals MVP (1980, 1982, 1987)
3× NBA Most Valuable Player (1987, 1989, 1990)
12× NBA All-Star (1980, 1982–1992)
2× NBA All-Star Game MVP (1990, 1992)
9× All-NBA First Team (1983–1991)
All-NBA Second Team (1982)
NBA All-Rookie Team (1980)
4× NBA assists leader (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987)
2× NBA steals leader (1981, 1982)
J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award (1992)
NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
No. 32 retired by Los Angeles Lakers
NCAA champion (1979)
NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player (1979)
Consensus first-team All-American (1979)
Second-team All-American – NABC (1978)
Third-team All-American – AP, UPI (1978)
No. 33 retired by Michigan State Spartans
Career NBA statistics
Points 17,707 (19.5 ppg)
Rebounds 6,559 (7.2 rpg)
Assists 10,141 (11.2 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Basketball Hall of Fame as player
College Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 2006
Medals[hide]
Men's basketball
Representing United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona Team competition
FIBA Americas Championship
Gold medal – first place 1992 Portland[2] Men's basketball