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Magic Johnson: The Engine of Showtime: The Definitive Story of the Revolutionary Point Guard and How Visionary Playmaking Saved the NBA
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Series: The Basketball Legends Series (Collector's Edition)
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He could make other people feel what he felt. That was the whole of it. Before the five championships, before the Forum filled with movie stars, before the fast break became the most beautiful thing in American sport, a boy in Lansing had already learned the secret he would spend a lifetime proving to larger and larger rooms: the fastest way to win is to give the ball away.
Earvin Magic Johnson turned a divided high school, a jaded veteran superstar, and finally an entire city into believers. His rivalry with Larry Bird pulled a dying league back from the edge and made professional basketball appointment television. And on a November afternoon in 1991, standing before a frightened nation to announce that a virus had found him, he performed the same act one last time, and the largest and hardest room of his life came around.
The Engine of Showtime traces the arc from a cracked Michigan driveway to the five titles, the announcement, and the business empire that followed. The genius was never the shot or the size. It was contagion, the rare ability to move belief from one person into a whole arena, and finally into a country that did not want to hear what he had to tell it.
This is an independent, unauthorized work. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Earvin Johnson or any organization named in it.
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