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[newscaster 1] Over the next hour,
we'll unveil the ten players

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who will represent America
in the 1992 Olympics.

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There's been much speculation
about who will play and who won't.

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I was already thinking about
what my next move was going to be

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when Commissioner Stern called me
and said,

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"Hey, Earvin.
We want you to play in the Olympics."

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[newscaster 2]
If you're going to put together a team,

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you should start with a great team leader.

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And who better than a player who has led
his team to five NBA championships?

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Magic Johnson.

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[Magic] I got so excited,
so we talked about that.

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And then he said,
"But we're having one problem."

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And I said, "What is that?"

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"Larry and Michael."

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Yeah, I called Larry, and I said,
"Listen, LB. This is our last hurrah.

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We gotta play, man. You gotta play."

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[Bird]
I told him I probably wouldn't do it.

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I'm just trying
to get through this season.

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I don't know if I can make it.

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[Magic] He said,
"Earvin, my back," and "I don't know."

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I said, "All you have to do
is go stand in the corner

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or stand at the top of the key.

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You don't have to do nothing else.
I'm gonna get you the ball.

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You just shoot it and make it."

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[chuckles]
"You can still do that, can't you?"

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"Oh, I can do that
with my eyes closed, yeah."

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I gotta do it.

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Whether I can play or not,
I gotta be on that team.

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[Magic] Finally, he said yes.

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And then the hard one was Michael.

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[audience member] Michael, I was wondering
if you made a definite decision

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on whether you will or will not play
in those Olympics?

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Uh, I would love to do it,
but I think it w-would take so much away

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from what I have to do
for the Chicago Bulls.

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So right now,
I-- I don't think I'm gonna participate.

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Well, I said, "Listen, man.

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It's been on my bucket list
to play with you and Larry.

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And we're going to have fun
being with each other

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'cause we've never really hung out
like that."

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I had to work on him some,
but finally he said yes.

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[Bay] The Dream Team.

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A basketball machine with names like
Magic and Michael and Ewing and Bird.

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The NBA's best.

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It was electric because that star power.

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The world went crazy.

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[crowd cheering]

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He brought Showtime to Barcelona.

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[crowd cheering]

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Magic! Magic!

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[Magic] I never wanted them
to think like they had to carry me,

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the other nine guys.

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And so, the practices was probably
the best basketball I've ever played

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in-- in my life.

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He's like the baby-faced assassin.

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That was like a dogfight every single day.

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He wanted to prove that he was back.

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I wanted to prove to him
that there's new kids on the block.

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We spent a lot of time together,
and I think it bonded all of us together.

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I was in Barcelona playing cards
with Magic, Charles Barkley and MJ.

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It was just like a bunch
of brothers talking shit.

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'Cause Michael is probably
the greatest shit-talker of all time,

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and Magic was not having any of it.

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[Magic] Here's these two competitive guys
who didn't want to lose.

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We were gonna play.

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We're gonna play hard,
and I was coming in there to win.

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A dream team for America.
A nightmare for its opposition.

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[crowd cheering]

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[Magic] If we can maintain
this level of intensity,

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then we feel that we have
a-- a great chance to win.

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There's no doubt Magic added
that little special sauce

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to the '92 Olympic team.

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[commentator] They have, as expected,
won the gold here in Barcelona.

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I needed the Dream Team
to validate into my own mind that,

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"Hey, Earvin, you're gonna be okay.

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You're gonna be here for a long time.

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You can still play. Your body is okay."

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Because by then
I had adjusted to the medicine.

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He was giving confidence
to tens of millions of people

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who had a similar diagnosis,

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who would see Magic out there playing
at an incredibly high level.

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And so during that time,
that-- that period,

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Magic had begun a discussion with David
about his desire to return to the league.

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When you leave sports,
it's really not about the games.

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It's about you're one of the guys.

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And I needed to be one of the guys
one more time.

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[Brokaw] It was less than a year ago

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it seemed that we'd seen the last
of Magic Johnson on the basketball floor.

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The Lakers star was retiring
because of the virus that causes AIDS.

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But then Magic on the Dream Team,
an Olympic gold medal

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and now Magic back in the NBA.

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[Magic] I didn't go out
the way I wanted to go out,

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and that's not the perfect ending.

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John Wayne always rode out
the way he wanna ride out.

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That's John Wayne's way.

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[sighs] Finally.

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This is a great day for me.

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Been working extremely hard
to, uh, come back,

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and, uh, I'm just happy to be back, um…

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So, that's all I have to say. [laughs]

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For selfish reasons, I wanted him to play.

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You know, we had a chance
of winning it again with Magic.

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We can get back to the Finals.

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To come out again leading the Lakers
out like old times. [chuckles]

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Right now it's sending chills up my spine,
right now just talking about it.

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[Rosen] But it was controversial
when Earvin came back.

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There was players all over the league
that didn't feel comfortable.

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Karl Malone came out publicly.

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If I get in a collision with a guy--
It don't have to be Magic.

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It could be Joe Schmo.

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But the fact of the matter is,
if you got the AIDS virus,

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it'll be hard for me to play as hard
as I'm capable of playing.

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And if people can't respect
my decision, that's tough.

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For such a prominent player
to make those remarks

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were really difficult to get past.

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[Magic] Man, I just played with Karl.

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We did the All-Star Game,
now we did the Dream Team,

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and now you've got an issue playing
against me during the regular season?

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It was sort of like he stabbed me
in the back.

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Now you have this huge distraction.

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We go to North Carolina
to play a preseason game,

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and unfortunately,
he gets this fingernail scratch.

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There's a time-out.

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And when he comes to the bench,

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I look up and all eyes
and cameras are upon me.

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[Scott]
I could see the look on players' face

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where they wasn't comfortable.

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You could see guys' whole demeanor change.

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The nonverbal communication
that's going on in that particular moment,

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and you're like,
"Why is everyone staring?"

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I remember hearing the reporters saying,
"Oh, my God. Oh, my God."

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You know, "Magic got scratched."
You know, "He's bleeding."

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Um, "What are they gonna do?"

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[Vitti]
I have the gloves in my back pocket.

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We have a protocol. I wrote the protocol.

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There's no way
that I could put these gloves on.

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Putting the gloves on would be
the epitome of a mixed message

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'cause we're telling you,
you can't get it from him.

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So if you can't get it,
then why are you putting the gloves on?

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[Magic]
You could see the fear upon people face,

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and it just keep on
drawing attention to it.

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So, it's just too much.

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It's gonna happen all year long.

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Magic Johnson's comeback
is over before it began.

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The basketball superstar said today
that he is retiring for good

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because of the controversy
over his decision to play

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while infected with the AIDS virus.

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There had been so much bad press.

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The joy was gone,

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but I felt for Magic 'cause
he still had basketball left to play.

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You said when you were here
that God created you to play basketball.

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I don't know now what you think
about that statement.

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I would think this is very disappointing
for you.

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People don't understand
this what we as young kids--

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I mean, it's all we thought about,
you know, was basketball.

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And that was our whole life at the time.

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[Wallace] You said that you wanted
to go out like John Wayne.

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-Yeah.
-You wanted to do it your way.

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Exactly.

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Now you're not gonna get that chance.

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The perfect ending
would've been me playing this season.

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But my movie will have no ending.

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Man, I tell you, Cookie and I,
we'd been together on and off

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since we were 18 years old,
and now we're married.

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Now we're about to have a baby.

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We had Andre.

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Her and Andre have a-- a special bond.

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And then, you know, it was
just a special moment for us.

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When you think about
the Johnson family was about to expand.

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[Albert] Magic, the vital statistics
for Earvin Johnson III,

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seven pounds, 15 ounces.
Congratulations.

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Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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[Cookie] When EJ was born,
it was just such a relief to me

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because they always just said,
"From what we understand with the disease

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if the mother doesn't have it,
the baby doesn't have it."

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But in the back of your mind,
you're wondering,

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"Is he gonna come out okay?
Is he gonna look okay?"

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You know, "Will he be sick?"

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And he came out,
and he was just beautiful.

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And he was super healthy
and a big blessing for us.

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Sup.

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-[Oprah] Hey, you look good.
-Mmm.

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-Stop.
-[Oprah] Bring him out. Earvin III.

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Magic says this in the book--
Oh, he's just so funny.

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When the baby was coming,
Magic was in the room,

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and Cookie was pushing.

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And when he saw the head come out--
What did you do?

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I-- I told everybody, "Stop."

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-[audience laughing]
-He did.

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And they look around,
"What's wrong? What's wrong?"

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I said, "I gotta have my baby born
to Luther Vandross."

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[audience laughs]

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Even though we had a new baby,
and Earvin was really great,

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what was hard was
there was a little sense of being lost.

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I'm not playing the game that I love,
and that hurt me.

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Not being a part of the locker room,
not being a part of the bus ride,

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not going to war
every single night with my guys.

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I'm consumed with basketball.

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I'm consumed with being the best.

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I'm consumed with winning championships
my whole life.

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[West] The only thing he knew
was to compete in basketball.

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What does this genius with a ball
in his hand want to do with his life,

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in the prime of his career as a player,

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what's he gonna do to satisfy
that passion to play this game?

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[Thomas]
Those were our conversations daily.

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Who are you, and what are you going to be?

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Because you just can't be this.

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[Magic]
I just had to take a step back and say,

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"Hey, Earvin.
Okay, let me try to figure it out."

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I grew up poor,
but I didn't have poor dreams.

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I was always dreaming outside my zip code,
outside my area code,

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outside my community.

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When I was growing up,
this famous Camay commercial

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used to come on TV all the time.

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Some girls think it's enough to be clean.

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I like to feel more than clean.

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[Magic] They had this big round bathtub,
and I said,

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"I'm gonna have that bathtub one day."

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I used to tell everybody that.

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They said, "Boy, you crazy."

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You know, as little kids,
you're just like, "Boy, shut up.

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You ain't gonna,
you know, h-have that tub."

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Or, "You ain't gonna do this or you--
How you gonna do that?"

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Because you didn't-- you didn't see it.

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And the people that you saw
that did have it didn't look like us.

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[Ferguson] Lansing was like--
If you saw the movie The Help.

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Let's give a nice round of applause
for the help.

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[applause]

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We were at the country club
as young people working

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and we end up teasing each other because,
uh, he worked inside shining shoes,

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and I worked outside caddying
and so forth.

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And, uh, he later told me that I was, uh,
a field hand,

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and, uh, he worked in the big house.

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This is how Lansing was.

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[Magic] But you know what?

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I've always dreamed big.

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When I said I was gonna do something,
I did it.

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And whatever it-- it was that I wanted,
my father said, "You gotta work for it."

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And my father worked at General Motors,

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and he worked two or three jobs
all the time.

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He would work at Shell's gas station,

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and then he would go to General Motors
for eight hours that-- that night.

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[Magic] He had a trash hauling service,
so we would go pick up people's trash.

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My brothers, they were kind of embarrassed
when they had to work on the truck

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'cause their friends would see us,
you know.

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We used to be ashamed.

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Our friends back then as kids,
you know, always pick on 857

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because that was the number
on the side of the truck.

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And I got in a lot of fights behind that,
you know, but--

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I didn't care if my friends saw me
on the truck.

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I just cared about hanging with my father.

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You know, he was my idol.

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[Eaton] I was a block and a half from 'em,
so I watched him come up

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from when he was almost born, I guess.

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He learned a lot from his dad.

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And-- And the values that Earvin has
in his life are his parents'.

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[Magic]
I remember this like it was yesterday.

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I said, "Hey, Dad, I'd like some money.

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Godzilla is playing at the theater."

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And everybody in the neighborhood
wanted to go see Godzilla

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at the movie theater downtown.

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And he said,
"I don't have a dollar to give you."

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He said, "But come with me."
I said, "Okay."

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So I followed my father to the garage,
and he said,

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"Meet Mr. Shovel, Mr. Rake
and Mr. Lawn Mower."

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I said--

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He said, "Now, if you want a dollar,

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you go use one of those tools
to go make a dollar."

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I would pray for the snow to come
in Lansing, Michigan,

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so I could go out and make some money.

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So I was always hustling
in the neighborhood some kind of way.

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You know,
I-I was always in business all his life.

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He's never knew me
when I wasn't in business.

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Uh, Earvin would work with him
in the summertime.

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A little part-time job
for, uh, Greg Eaton.

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Earvin came on time
and left when everything was--

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that you asked him to do was completed.

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He-- He doesn't know how to "half do."

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Um, we would, you know, dump the trash,
kind of straighten up the office.

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And, uh, I remember vividly that, uh,

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Earvin would go, uh, sit at the desk.

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Would put his feet up on the desk.

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That's when he was at my desk
with his feet up on my desk

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when I come in.

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And I go, "What is this?"
"Oh, I'm playing you.

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I'm being you right now."
[chuckling] We laughed.

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And he really kind of envisioned himself
being a businessman.

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That was the thing he used to talk about
all the time

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when we would be talking about
what we're gonna do after basketball.

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We used to sit on the back of the bus.

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And they said,
"Buck, what do you wanna be?"

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'Cause they used to call me Buck.

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I said, "I'm gonna own my own business
and be a businessman."

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But at the same time,
I didn't know even where to start.

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And so Dr. Jerry Buss,
he was the first call I made,

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and I went to see him.

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He wanted to know,
"What you want to do besides basketball?"

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He always asked me that.

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He said, "Earvin, what's--
what's your goals? What's your dreams?"

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And then, "How are you going
to accomplish that goal or dream?

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What's your strategy
to get to where you wanna go?"

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Earvin had this plan that, you know,
"I'm going to use my fame

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and meet people in the business world."

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[operator] A/B common mark.

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There were people that taught him
a lot about business,

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and he would take their knowledge.

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Jerry Buss taught him
a lot about business.

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Michael Ovitz taught him
a lot about business.

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And when we met Michael Ovitz,

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he really schooled Earvin
in a lot of things.

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[Ovitz] He came in, and he sat there.
And we talked about what he could do.

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To his credit, he started the conversation

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by saying, "I want to not be 40,

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retired athlete with nothing to do
and open a few car dealerships.

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I want to be in business."

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And I told him it was a real uphill fight.

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The first thing I did
is I got him subscriptions

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to The Wall Street Journal, to Fortune,

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to BusinessWeek, to Forbes.

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[Rosen] It was a learning period for him.

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W-We'd call up, you know,
the head of Coca-Cola.

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"Hey, can we meet with you?
Magic Johnson wants to meet with you."

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And "I want to meet
with the head of PepsiCo."

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We'll meet with Pepsi. And meet with--
He did this around the country.

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[Chenault] He would call me periodically,
ask for advice.

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What Earvin said is, "There are
a set of skills that I have to acquire.

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And I have to take the time

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and have to demonstrate the dedication

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to learn those skills."

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[Ovitz] But I think Earvin
was always sensitive

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to the fact that he was
a superstar in sports.

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And I think that he thought
that his image in sports

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overwhelmed what he might
be able to do in business.

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And I think that deep down
he was always worried

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that he'd never be taken seriously.

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He'd be looked at as a jock.

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[Magic] It was a hard adjustment.

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People don't understand this
about an athlete.

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Every single day, your day is mapped out.

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So now there's nobody there
to tell me to do something.

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You know, it's all, "Okay."

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I-- I didn't have purpose.

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The Lakers were my purpose,
and I needed to pour my energy,

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uh, and my passion and love
into something other than basketball.

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So I needed to know, uh,
how to get started

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and-- and, uh, what direction to go in.

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[crowd cheering]

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[sports commentator] We're live here
at the Great Western Forum.

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[Cookie]
I remember being at a game at The Forum.

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Earvin and I had went
to the game that night.

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[sports commentator]
Earvin "Magic" Johnson.

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[Cookie] The game was over,
we're about to go home

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and they make a huge announcement.

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You cannot leave the sta-stadium.

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[announcer]
…heading towards the Culver City area.

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[commentator]
The crowd has gotten very still now,

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and I'll tell you why.

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They've got some riots going on
around the city of Los Angeles.

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Quite close to The Forum,
within about two miles.

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[Cookie] And I remember they said,

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"There has been a riot that broke--
has broken out close to here.

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We would advise no one leave the stadium
at this time

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until we can find out
if it's safe to leave."

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00:20:32,275 --> 00:20:35,612
When they finally let us out,
Earvin put us in the car,

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and as we're driving,
yeah, my heart just sank.

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[Rather] The jury
in the Los Angeles police brutality trial

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has just reached its verdicts
this evening.

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00:20:44,454 --> 00:20:46,915
The four police officers
who were videotaped

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repeatedly beating an unarmed man

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were found not guilty
on all but one count.

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We were dead center
in the middle of Los Angeles.

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We were dead in the middle of the riots.

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And looking back at it…

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[sirens wailing]

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…every action causes a reaction.

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And we, for so long, have never reacted.

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00:21:07,185 --> 00:21:09,729
We've always turned the other cheek
and accepted it,

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00:21:09,813 --> 00:21:11,982
and that was our day to say, "Fuck that."

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[Magic] When I think about Rodney King
and the rioting--

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And what I didn't like
is that we tore up our own community.

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The Black community, you know,
we set our own businesses on fire,

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and that hurt South Central, Compton.

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It hurt so many communities.

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[community member]
Not only were the stores burned,

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but the jobs were lost.

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I saw employees coming to work
in a lot of these places

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and standing there in tears
because their jobs were not there.

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00:21:46,892 --> 00:21:49,769
A lot of the Black leaders
started calling me saying,

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"Hey, we need you.

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00:21:51,271 --> 00:21:54,524
You've got the biggest voice,
so people will listen to you.

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00:21:54,608 --> 00:21:56,109
So you got to get involved."

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00:21:56,192 --> 00:21:59,237
The whole segment of the population
that have been left out,

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left behind and just lip service, uh--

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00:22:03,575 --> 00:22:06,912
Done a little here, a little there,
uh, will not matter.

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00:22:06,995 --> 00:22:08,288
Uh, we need to do much more.

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00:22:09,289 --> 00:22:13,752
[Magic] That was the start of something
for me that had to change.

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I said, "Okay, I gotta build my business
in urban America."

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If you don't make a difference
in the Black community,

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that doesn't matter
that you winning all those championships.

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00:22:23,136 --> 00:22:28,600
So, we gotta go out and, um, you know,
ask people to now start rebuilding.

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00:22:30,477 --> 00:22:32,604
[older Magic]
I said, "You know what's going to help me?

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I gotta get a office."

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00:22:36,441 --> 00:22:39,736
Now I'm going to the office every day.
I'm back on schedule again.

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00:22:41,363 --> 00:22:45,033
[Brown] I remember my first interview
like it was yesterday.

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00:22:45,116 --> 00:22:47,994
I walked right into his office actually,

405
00:22:48,078 --> 00:22:51,581
and immediately he was Earvin Johnson.

406
00:22:51,665 --> 00:22:54,334
He was no longer Magic Johnson.

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00:22:54,417 --> 00:22:56,002
That was left on the court.

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00:22:56,962 --> 00:23:00,048
Earvin, he saw something in me

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00:23:00,131 --> 00:23:02,592
that I actually didn't recognize
in myself.

410
00:23:03,677 --> 00:23:07,347
And he saw the way I spoke about
the community in which I-- I grew up.

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00:23:08,014 --> 00:23:11,268
I grew up in, um, South Central LA.

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00:23:11,351 --> 00:23:15,855
I was living in LA during the riots
and, uh, it was all around me.

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00:23:15,939 --> 00:23:18,358
I could walk out the door and see flames.

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00:23:18,441 --> 00:23:22,904
But, uh, I loved my neighborhood,
loved the community, and--

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00:23:22,988 --> 00:23:24,322
Even though it was tough.

416
00:23:24,948 --> 00:23:27,826
The neighborhood where I grew up
was definitely underserved.

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00:23:28,368 --> 00:23:30,996
There were no major coffee shops.

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00:23:31,079 --> 00:23:34,749
There were no first-rate movie theaters.

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[Magic]
We saw how, uh, the Black community

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00:23:38,795 --> 00:23:40,839
as well as the Latino community,

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00:23:40,922 --> 00:23:45,051
always the first thing they wanted to do
was be able to take their-- their families

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00:23:45,135 --> 00:23:47,429
to a movie,

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00:23:47,512 --> 00:23:50,056
and that's the most affordable thing
that they could still do.

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00:23:50,682 --> 00:23:54,060
But we had to drive outside our community
to go to the movies.

425
00:23:54,769 --> 00:23:59,190
You're talking about 30, 40 minutes
just to go to a first-run movie theater.

426
00:23:59,274 --> 00:24:03,653
Films, movies have always been
a part of my life with Cookie.

427
00:24:03,737 --> 00:24:06,615
That's our-- One of our first dates were
at the movie.

428
00:24:06,698 --> 00:24:09,326
And it's funny.
To this day that's, like, our date night.

429
00:24:09,409 --> 00:24:11,119
To go to the movies on Friday nights.

430
00:24:11,202 --> 00:24:13,204
[Magic] I met with Ken Lombard.

431
00:24:13,288 --> 00:24:17,459
Ken, he had the expertise
in the theater business.

432
00:24:17,542 --> 00:24:21,796
Earvin made it clear that he loved
the movie theater side of the business,

433
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,924
and this was something
that he had interest in.

434
00:24:24,007 --> 00:24:30,847
And so this was going to be
my first big investment of my own money.

435
00:24:30,931 --> 00:24:33,975
[Lombard] It was an opportunity
for us to get in a lane,

436
00:24:34,059 --> 00:24:37,479
build a business
around the minority communities

437
00:24:37,562 --> 00:24:39,940
that really no one was doing at the time.

438
00:24:40,023 --> 00:24:41,524
I walked out of that meeting,

439
00:24:41,608 --> 00:24:44,069
um, convinced
that Earvin was the right partner.

440
00:24:44,152 --> 00:24:45,654
[paparazzi] Peter! Peter!

441
00:24:45,737 --> 00:24:47,239
[Guber] He came with Ken Lombard.

442
00:24:47,322 --> 00:24:50,533
They said, "But, hey, we know
that you're in the exhibition business,

443
00:24:50,617 --> 00:24:52,327
and you wanna be where audiences are.

444
00:24:52,410 --> 00:24:57,123
Well, we know a country where moviegoing
is the first most important priority

445
00:24:57,749 --> 00:24:58,833
for those people.

446
00:24:58,917 --> 00:25:02,462
And it's a really progressive
and dynamic moviegoing audience,

447
00:25:02,546 --> 00:25:04,714
and you can make a ton of money."

448
00:25:04,798 --> 00:25:06,591
So I think,
"That's exactly what I wanted to hear."

449
00:25:06,675 --> 00:25:08,552
'Cause we were expanding around the world.

450
00:25:08,635 --> 00:25:10,845
I said, "S-So where do we have to go?"

451
00:25:10,929 --> 00:25:12,764
He said,
"Five miles from here to Baldwin Hills."

452
00:25:14,849 --> 00:25:20,647
You could merge economic necessity,
economic desire, creative opportunity

453
00:25:20,730 --> 00:25:22,607
and purposefulness in the community.

454
00:25:22,691 --> 00:25:24,568
That was a very powerful statement.

455
00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:26,778
And I really did this, he'll tell you.

456
00:25:26,861 --> 00:25:28,655
I reached across the table,
I said, "I'm in."

457
00:25:33,159 --> 00:25:36,288
[Magic]
We knew what everybody else was thinking.

458
00:25:37,747 --> 00:25:39,708
It's in the middle
of the Bloods and the Crips.

459
00:25:39,791 --> 00:25:43,086
It kinda sits in the junction
of a number of different gang lands

460
00:25:43,169 --> 00:25:47,257
that go from Rollin' 60s,
further down Crenshaw to the Jungle,

461
00:25:47,340 --> 00:25:49,009
which is the P. Stones.

462
00:25:49,759 --> 00:25:53,179
[Magic]
One incident could destroy our business.

463
00:25:53,263 --> 00:25:56,433
And everybody was thinking
that it was going to happen.

464
00:25:56,516 --> 00:25:59,811
That's what really made me mad,
so I had to prove them wrong.

465
00:25:59,895 --> 00:26:02,939
And so I said, "Ken, call the heads.

466
00:26:03,023 --> 00:26:06,818
I want to have breakfast with both heads
of the Crips and heads of the Bloods."

467
00:26:06,902 --> 00:26:09,195
He said, "Okay. You sure?"

468
00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:10,447
And I said, "Yeah."

469
00:26:10,530 --> 00:26:11,740
[Lombard] We went.

470
00:26:11,823 --> 00:26:14,159
And I had about six or seven guys with me.

471
00:26:14,242 --> 00:26:16,161
They showed up with about 35 people.

472
00:26:16,953 --> 00:26:20,415
[Magic] I said, "I'm not here
to disrespect either one of you.

473
00:26:20,498 --> 00:26:21,958
What I'm here for is to say,

474
00:26:22,042 --> 00:26:27,589
this theater is gonna help
the entire Black community.

475
00:26:28,256 --> 00:26:29,883
I want you to come.

476
00:26:29,966 --> 00:26:31,468
I want your family to come.

477
00:26:31,551 --> 00:26:37,641
But you guys got to agree
that we can't have violence

478
00:26:37,724 --> 00:26:40,310
outside or inside that theater.

479
00:26:41,061 --> 00:26:42,520
And I'm creating jobs.

480
00:26:42,604 --> 00:26:46,775
So if you guys got some guys
who want to work, I will employ them."

481
00:26:47,817 --> 00:26:48,902
Everyone respected him.

482
00:26:48,985 --> 00:26:50,946
No one knew him as a businessman,
of course,

483
00:26:51,029 --> 00:26:52,656
but they respected everything about it.

484
00:26:52,739 --> 00:26:55,617
And-- And in LA, you know,
all these guys are basketball fans

485
00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:56,701
or Laker fans.

486
00:26:56,785 --> 00:26:59,579
So they obviously, you know,
they-- they loved Earvin.

487
00:26:59,663 --> 00:27:01,581
And then we were off to the races.

488
00:27:01,665 --> 00:27:04,793
Before Magic started,
um, building theaters,

489
00:27:04,876 --> 00:27:07,546
I didn't give two shakes
from a rat's rectum about it.

490
00:27:07,629 --> 00:27:11,841
Now Magic becomes a hero
because he lives up to his word.

491
00:27:12,634 --> 00:27:17,847
Giving jobs to people that, you know,
were-- were-- were written off

492
00:27:17,931 --> 00:27:21,142
in some aspect was-- It was-- It was huge.

493
00:27:21,226 --> 00:27:23,937
Movies may play a big role
in our popular culture,

494
00:27:24,020 --> 00:27:27,148
but in some of our neighborhoods,
they play no role at all.

495
00:27:27,232 --> 00:27:30,277
But thanks to some movie magic,
that's changing.

496
00:27:30,735 --> 00:27:33,572
This is a movie complex
built by Magic Johnson,

497
00:27:33,655 --> 00:27:36,116
right in the center
of the Crenshaw District in LA.

498
00:27:36,199 --> 00:27:37,742
[crowd cheering]

499
00:27:37,826 --> 00:27:40,954
[Brown] The opening was a celebration.

500
00:27:41,037 --> 00:27:42,205
I lived around the corner.

501
00:27:42,289 --> 00:27:44,499
The-- The entire neighborhood was going.

502
00:27:45,208 --> 00:27:49,087
We got big, big, big, big screens

503
00:27:49,838 --> 00:27:53,925
stadium seating, you got popcorn shrimp,

504
00:27:54,009 --> 00:27:56,469
chicken and some hot sauce.

505
00:27:59,347 --> 00:28:01,600
And the whole thing.
Oh, they're gonna tear it up.

506
00:28:01,683 --> 00:28:05,520
They go-- It's gonna be a lot of shooting,
a lot of fighting, you know.

507
00:28:05,604 --> 00:28:06,938
That never happened.

508
00:28:07,522 --> 00:28:12,027
We were able to dispel a lot of myths
about the Black customer.

509
00:28:12,110 --> 00:28:14,571
[McIntyre] This is Magic Johnson's
newest movie theater.

510
00:28:14,654 --> 00:28:16,448
He's got three or four of 'em
all over the country.

511
00:28:16,531 --> 00:28:19,826
Atlanta, Los Angeles, Houston,
and this is the latest one right here

512
00:28:19,910 --> 00:28:21,661
in North Randall,
the greater Cleveland area.

513
00:28:21,745 --> 00:28:24,998
There were no movies in Central Harlem.

514
00:28:25,081 --> 00:28:27,709
Now we have nine screens here.

515
00:28:27,792 --> 00:28:30,879
[newscaster 1] Another benefit
is that 80% of the theater's staff

516
00:28:30,962 --> 00:28:33,465
lives in the neighborhood it serves.

517
00:28:33,548 --> 00:28:35,926
And it wasn't about money.

518
00:28:36,009 --> 00:28:37,469
It was about change.

519
00:28:37,552 --> 00:28:40,805
Changing the community
and revitalizing that community

520
00:28:40,889 --> 00:28:43,391
i-in a different way
that I had ever seen before.

521
00:28:44,935 --> 00:28:47,812
Once the theaters was successful

522
00:28:47,896 --> 00:28:51,691
and people, they had their, you know,
magnifying glasses, uh, out,

523
00:28:51,775 --> 00:28:54,194
looking like, "Is this is really going
to work in these communities?

524
00:28:54,277 --> 00:28:55,737
Are you sure it's gonna work?"

525
00:28:55,820 --> 00:28:59,324
And not only did it work,
but it expanded quickly.

526
00:28:59,407 --> 00:29:03,036
And from the theaters came Starbucks.

527
00:29:06,539 --> 00:29:09,626
I think I was in New York,
and I saw this line.

528
00:29:09,709 --> 00:29:13,255
And I saw the Starbucks, but I didn't know
what it was, you know, at that time.

529
00:29:13,338 --> 00:29:16,716
I said, "Them people waiting in line
for coffee?"

530
00:29:17,676 --> 00:29:19,886
And this is Black people in line too.

531
00:29:19,970 --> 00:29:22,305
Man, I'm sitting there. I'm saying, "Wow.

532
00:29:22,389 --> 00:29:25,767
This may be the next thing I gotta do."

533
00:29:25,850 --> 00:29:28,728
[newscaster] Meet the guy
you could call the new Mr. Coffee.

534
00:29:28,812 --> 00:29:32,774
Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks
and the brains behind the brew.

535
00:29:32,857 --> 00:29:35,277
You go to a city like New York City,
and you're quite amazed

536
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,195
that a city as sophisticated as New York

537
00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:39,114
with great food and great art,

538
00:29:39,197 --> 00:29:40,657
you can't get a good cup of coffee.

539
00:29:40,740 --> 00:29:41,741
I was a little suspect.

540
00:29:41,825 --> 00:29:44,494
You know, what could Magic
do with Starbucks

541
00:29:44,578 --> 00:29:48,373
that would be significant
and authentic and relevant?

542
00:29:48,456 --> 00:29:54,004
And so, I think at the time, I was just
intrigued to meet Magic Johnson.

543
00:29:54,087 --> 00:29:55,922
The question was,

544
00:29:56,006 --> 00:29:59,509
if you put a Starbucks in South Central LA
are people gonna spend four dollars?

545
00:29:59,593 --> 00:30:02,679
And Earvin's response was, "We buy Gucci."

546
00:30:02,762 --> 00:30:06,016
Anytime that somebody is skeptical,

547
00:30:06,099 --> 00:30:08,435
and Howard was,
uh, and he had a reason to be,

548
00:30:08,518 --> 00:30:10,186
you've got to take 'em to the deal.

549
00:30:11,438 --> 00:30:15,734
So Waiting to Exhale, Whitney Houston's
first movie, was coming out.

550
00:30:15,817 --> 00:30:18,612
Howard Schultz decided
he wanted to come down on that Friday.

551
00:30:18,695 --> 00:30:20,655
And I tell you, he was shocked.

552
00:30:20,739 --> 00:30:21,990
It was crazy.

553
00:30:22,073 --> 00:30:25,243
I mean, a thousand people
showed up in the lobby.

554
00:30:25,327 --> 00:30:27,329
[Magic chuckles]
You know, he looked at the line.

555
00:30:27,412 --> 00:30:32,751
He looked at all the conversations
going on around the concession stand.

556
00:30:32,834 --> 00:30:35,086
He's seeing us spending a lot of money.

557
00:30:35,170 --> 00:30:37,297
He said, "Let's go inside."
I said, "Okay."

558
00:30:37,380 --> 00:30:42,844
The movie starts, and of course,
Whitney's having problems with her man.

559
00:30:43,553 --> 00:30:45,055
I mean, so, what do you think, Robin?

560
00:30:45,138 --> 00:30:49,059
I've loved this man forever,
and now that we've got another chance,

561
00:30:49,142 --> 00:30:51,978
I don't wanna blow it by making him think
I don't have any faith in him.

562
00:30:52,062 --> 00:30:55,398
Every woman and their girl,
"Dump him. Why you still with him?"

563
00:30:55,482 --> 00:30:56,816
You know, they're talking to the screen.

564
00:30:56,900 --> 00:31:00,111
This audience was heavily engaged,

565
00:31:00,737 --> 00:31:03,198
uh, viscerally with the movie.

566
00:31:03,281 --> 00:31:07,577
And Magic was encouraging the fact,
"Look what's going on here.

567
00:31:07,661 --> 00:31:10,872
This is happening
because we're giving people a platform

568
00:31:10,956 --> 00:31:12,624
to interact with the movie.

569
00:31:12,707 --> 00:31:17,546
And this is the community that I want
to create with you at Starbucks."

570
00:31:17,629 --> 00:31:20,340
Starbucks is expanding
with a little bit of a "magic" touch.

571
00:31:20,423 --> 00:31:22,676
The popular company
is teaming up with Magic Johnson

572
00:31:22,759 --> 00:31:25,220
to put new locations in neighborhoods
across the country.

573
00:31:25,804 --> 00:31:26,972
Lo and behold, it turns out

574
00:31:27,055 --> 00:31:29,516
that Black folks drink coffee too,

575
00:31:29,599 --> 00:31:32,394
and they watch an awful lot of movies.

576
00:31:32,477 --> 00:31:33,812
Are we ready?

577
00:31:33,895 --> 00:31:35,397
[Obama] It wasn't charity.

578
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,233
In fact, it could do
very well for investors.

579
00:31:43,989 --> 00:31:46,992
[Magic] All the things that I was
on the basketball court,

580
00:31:47,075 --> 00:31:48,785
I am as a businessman.

581
00:31:48,868 --> 00:31:51,997
Discipline, focus, building a strategy,

582
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,207
execution, excellence.

583
00:31:54,291 --> 00:31:55,667
[people in street cheering]

584
00:31:55,750 --> 00:31:59,713
Earvin constantly focused
on always wanting to get better.

585
00:31:59,796 --> 00:32:01,756
We gotta keep growing.
We gotta keep doing.

586
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,384
He's gobbling up one of LA's
oldest hamburger chains.

587
00:32:04,467 --> 00:32:06,469
Yeah, Fatburger. Yes.

588
00:32:06,553 --> 00:32:07,554
[Magic] Yeah.

589
00:32:07,637 --> 00:32:09,598
[newscaster 3] With a snip of a ribbon,
another new business.

590
00:32:09,681 --> 00:32:12,058
A 24 Hour Fitness gym near Oakland,

591
00:32:12,142 --> 00:32:15,270
the latest Magic Johnson investment
in urban neighborhoods.

592
00:32:16,104 --> 00:32:20,942
We found out that there was a shortage
of housing and retail in urban America.

593
00:32:21,026 --> 00:32:23,028
So let's do something about it.

594
00:32:23,111 --> 00:32:26,489
This project is not only gonna be
a great project,

595
00:32:26,573 --> 00:32:28,491
but a much-needed project.

596
00:32:28,575 --> 00:32:31,703
[Lombard] The primary goal was,
uh, real estate opportunities

597
00:32:31,786 --> 00:32:33,788
in minority communities
across the country.

598
00:32:34,456 --> 00:32:36,583
[Magic] Well, institutional capital
was not ready.

599
00:32:36,666 --> 00:32:39,085
We got more noes than yeses.

600
00:32:39,169 --> 00:32:42,339
But we proved everybody wrong.

601
00:32:43,632 --> 00:32:46,092
Brand new buildings right in the hood.

602
00:32:46,843 --> 00:32:50,222
Condominiums on top
and retail on the bottom.

603
00:32:50,305 --> 00:32:53,475
[Lombard] Everyone could see
what we were trying to do,

604
00:32:53,558 --> 00:32:55,143
and we were beginning to pull it off.

605
00:32:55,227 --> 00:32:58,897
We're going to become
the most significant development company

606
00:32:58,980 --> 00:33:01,316
in minority communities
across the country.

607
00:33:01,399 --> 00:33:04,611
Well, now he's doing no-look passes
with real estate funds

608
00:33:04,694 --> 00:33:07,864
and no-look passes
with shopping centers and franchises.

609
00:33:07,948 --> 00:33:11,409
Somebody said that Magic Johnson
is reinventing inner-city business.

610
00:33:12,285 --> 00:33:16,581
[Brown] He was looking for people
that had the same drive, the same vision,

611
00:33:16,665 --> 00:33:21,294
and was not afraid to work overtime
and over-deliver.

612
00:33:22,170 --> 00:33:25,590
This is a man that wakes up
at 4:00 in the morning

613
00:33:25,674 --> 00:33:28,635
and he has this work ethic
that he lives by.

614
00:33:28,718 --> 00:33:30,178
[Brown] You had to get there early.

615
00:33:30,262 --> 00:33:32,097
We worked through lunch.

616
00:33:32,180 --> 00:33:34,599
We worked Saturday and Sunday.

617
00:33:34,683 --> 00:33:37,394
There wasn't a Saturday or Sunday
that I didn't go in the office

618
00:33:37,477 --> 00:33:40,647
for maybe 15 straight years.

619
00:33:40,730 --> 00:33:42,232
[newscaster] With his playing days
behind him,

620
00:33:42,315 --> 00:33:44,401
Johnson turned his focus
to the business world.

621
00:33:44,484 --> 00:33:48,405
He's now involved in movie theaters,
restaurants, shopping centers,

622
00:33:48,488 --> 00:33:50,574
Starbucks and real estate.

623
00:33:50,657 --> 00:33:54,035
An empire valued
at nearly half a billion dollars.

624
00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:57,831
Earvin wanted to do a lot. [sighs]

625
00:34:00,208 --> 00:34:04,379
And so I was always concerned
that we were trying to do too much.

626
00:34:05,672 --> 00:34:08,258
And he's only one person.

627
00:34:16,724 --> 00:34:18,768
[Cookie] Earvin and I
always talked about having kids.

628
00:34:18,852 --> 00:34:20,436
This is way before we got married.

629
00:34:20,519 --> 00:34:25,233
And we always said that we wanted to have
a big family 'cause he had a big family.

630
00:34:26,401 --> 00:34:27,652
But at that time,

631
00:34:27,736 --> 00:34:33,074
there wasn't a lot of knowledge
about HIV patients and having children.

632
00:34:33,157 --> 00:34:36,745
And so we were advised
not to try on our own.

633
00:34:37,996 --> 00:34:39,914
[Magic] You know, having two boys

634
00:34:39,998 --> 00:34:43,960
and knowing that Cookie and I
wasn't having any more kids ourselves,

635
00:34:44,586 --> 00:34:47,505
uh, we both decided to adopt.

636
00:34:48,465 --> 00:34:52,302
This beautiful baby came into our lives.

637
00:34:54,304 --> 00:34:57,474
[Cookie] She came home,
and I had EJ there. And I'm like,

638
00:34:57,557 --> 00:35:00,685
"EJ, look. This is your new baby sister."

639
00:35:00,769 --> 00:35:04,439
Then he was like,
"Oh, that's so cute. She's so sweet.

640
00:35:04,522 --> 00:35:06,107
Now take her back."

641
00:35:08,068 --> 00:35:11,279
Earvin kind of kicked in with the kids
when they became toddlers,

642
00:35:11,363 --> 00:35:13,782
when they were
a little more agile for him.

643
00:35:15,909 --> 00:35:19,496
He was very busy.
He had to get up and go to work.

644
00:35:20,705 --> 00:35:23,416
And plus, he was traveling a lot too,
so he wasn't there a lot.

645
00:35:24,668 --> 00:35:27,045
[Elisa] Even though he worked a lot,

646
00:35:27,128 --> 00:35:29,047
I knew, like, once he was home

647
00:35:29,130 --> 00:35:32,884
we were gonna go get ice cream
or we were gonna go to the movies,

648
00:35:32,968 --> 00:35:35,679
or he would spend countless hours
with me in the mall,

649
00:35:35,762 --> 00:35:39,558
letting me pick out my, like,
favorite outfits or whatever.

650
00:35:41,184 --> 00:35:44,729
[EJ] You know, he, um,
took us to the movies a lot,

651
00:35:44,813 --> 00:35:46,565
um, whenever he was home.

652
00:35:46,648 --> 00:35:48,692
You know, weekends
when he was there it's, like--

653
00:35:48,775 --> 00:35:51,194
You know, he would take us everywhere.

654
00:35:52,195 --> 00:35:54,990
[Andre] First memories,
I can remember, like,

655
00:35:55,073 --> 00:35:56,074
when my dad would come

656
00:35:56,157 --> 00:35:58,618
into Lansing,
we would get together as family.

657
00:35:58,702 --> 00:36:02,956
And then I started,
probably around ten or 11,

658
00:36:03,039 --> 00:36:05,333
starting to fly out by myself.

659
00:36:05,417 --> 00:36:09,754
And for the first time, seeing sort of
what the big city was like

660
00:36:09,838 --> 00:36:12,883
and, you know, seeing the beach,
going to Disneyland.

661
00:36:12,966 --> 00:36:16,511
Like, for little Lansing,
that seemed larger than life.

662
00:36:17,888 --> 00:36:21,516
He would always make time for--
for things that mattered, I would say.

663
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,560
But he, yeah--
But he was-- he was working a lot,

664
00:36:23,643 --> 00:36:26,313
and he was, you know, transforming himself

665
00:36:26,396 --> 00:36:31,484
and, um, his empire into the one
that he wanted it to be.

666
00:36:33,612 --> 00:36:36,281
In the beginning,
like, when we were growing up,

667
00:36:36,364 --> 00:36:38,533
he wanted me
to be into sports and whatever.

668
00:36:38,617 --> 00:36:40,660
But it's, like,
I had never had a mind for sports,

669
00:36:40,744 --> 00:36:45,415
even though, come home from school Friday,
change, basketball game.

670
00:36:46,291 --> 00:36:48,627
There wasn't a choice.
We're all going to The Forum.

671
00:36:48,710 --> 00:36:51,171
When it's, like, Friday night,
like, that's what we're doing.

672
00:36:51,254 --> 00:36:53,965
Yeah, I was there
for the championships and all that jazz.

673
00:36:54,049 --> 00:36:56,468
And all the men and boys
in the world come up to me

674
00:36:56,551 --> 00:36:58,470
and just like, "Oh, my God.
What that must've been like."

675
00:36:58,553 --> 00:37:00,222
Or, "This game in this year,"

676
00:37:00,305 --> 00:37:02,891
and, "When your dad made this pass,"
and such and such.

677
00:37:02,974 --> 00:37:05,518
And I'm like, "I have no idea
what you're talking about."

678
00:37:05,602 --> 00:37:08,480
You know, we put him in T-ball,
and he just went out in the field

679
00:37:08,563 --> 00:37:11,691
and picked the flowers and ran back
and, "Look, Mommy. Look what I got you."

680
00:37:11,775 --> 00:37:13,401
You know, he picked flowers for me.

681
00:37:13,485 --> 00:37:15,654
I'm like, "EJ,
you're supposed to catch the ball."

682
00:37:17,322 --> 00:37:20,700
[Elisa] So, when I was
playing basketball, I had his number.

683
00:37:20,784 --> 00:37:22,410
I used number 32.

684
00:37:22,494 --> 00:37:25,288
And when he would come to my games,
it was a lot of pressure.

685
00:37:25,372 --> 00:37:28,375
I did feel like all eyes were on me.

686
00:37:29,209 --> 00:37:31,628
[Magic] I stressed this
to my kids all the time.

687
00:37:31,711 --> 00:37:34,923
Everything that you do
reflects your parents.

688
00:37:35,924 --> 00:37:38,885
As a father, you say, "Oh, man,
I want him to get into sports

689
00:37:38,969 --> 00:37:40,637
and be like his-- like me."

690
00:37:41,346 --> 00:37:43,765
[Andre] People would say,
if I made a mistake,

691
00:37:43,848 --> 00:37:47,727
you know, it was worse
than any mistake that my dad made.

692
00:37:47,811 --> 00:37:49,813
Or if I did something great in the game,

693
00:37:49,896 --> 00:37:53,275
oh, that was great, but it was never
as great as what he did during that time.

694
00:37:53,358 --> 00:37:58,697
So, you know, at a early stage,
then I stopped loving playing.

695
00:38:00,365 --> 00:38:02,742
[EJ] But the thing is, like, I believe,

696
00:38:02,826 --> 00:38:04,578
it would've been harder for him to take

697
00:38:04,661 --> 00:38:10,750
if me or Elisa or Andre, like, ended up
being some basketball protégé

698
00:38:10,834 --> 00:38:13,879
and was crushing the game. Or, like,
turned into LeBron James or something.

699
00:38:13,962 --> 00:38:18,800
In some way, I think he needed
all the thunder in that lane.

700
00:38:20,468 --> 00:38:24,723
[Cookie] What was hard was for--
for him to just let go of that old world,

701
00:38:25,307 --> 00:38:27,267
um, because it was snatched from him.

702
00:38:27,350 --> 00:38:29,019
He wasn't ready to let it go.

703
00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:31,021
[West] He loved the competition.

704
00:38:31,688 --> 00:38:33,481
This is not because he wanted to be seen.

705
00:38:33,565 --> 00:38:35,775
It was about being competitive.

706
00:38:35,859 --> 00:38:40,322
I missed the elbows, getting elbowed,
and I missed giving some elbows.

707
00:38:40,405 --> 00:38:43,617
I missed, you know,
preparing for the opponent.

708
00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:45,243
I want to play.

709
00:38:47,829 --> 00:38:50,332
Why am I not out there?

710
00:38:50,415 --> 00:38:52,500
[Rosen] So in 1996,

711
00:38:52,584 --> 00:38:55,795
sometime after the first of the year,
he goes, "I'm coming back to play."

712
00:38:56,379 --> 00:38:57,547
But I knew…

713
00:38:58,715 --> 00:39:01,718
I knew that he was not
gonna last very long.

714
00:39:01,801 --> 00:39:05,347
[newscaster 1] This morning, Johnson ended
the speculation about his return.

715
00:39:05,430 --> 00:39:06,932
I am back. Yes, I am.

716
00:39:08,308 --> 00:39:11,603
[newscaster 2] Tickets started flying out
of The Forum box office soon as Laker fans

717
00:39:11,686 --> 00:39:14,439
caught wind that Magic Johnson
is returning to the team.

718
00:39:14,522 --> 00:39:17,984
I am so excited. I couldn't sleep
for the last two or three nights.

719
00:39:18,818 --> 00:39:22,030
I think it was 1996.
I was at Magic's comeback game.

720
00:39:22,113 --> 00:39:26,076
Sellout crowd. Whoo!
Magic's back in LA, baby.

721
00:39:26,701 --> 00:39:29,371
[Kimmel] I was a sports guy on the radio,

722
00:39:29,454 --> 00:39:31,373
and I was like,
"I have to go to this game."

723
00:39:32,958 --> 00:39:36,586
Magic is a big part of my childhood.

724
00:39:36,670 --> 00:39:39,130
Like, when I was a kid,
I used to draw pictures of him.

725
00:39:39,214 --> 00:39:43,635
To see him back on that court, not just
playing, but playing really well…

726
00:39:43,718 --> 00:39:45,512
[commentator]
Magic's in deep, banks it in!

727
00:39:45,595 --> 00:39:47,264
It was so life-affirming.

728
00:39:47,347 --> 00:39:49,391
It was beyond sports.

729
00:39:49,474 --> 00:39:52,811
When he took to the court
for the Los Angeles Lakers last night,

730
00:39:52,894 --> 00:39:55,981
Magic Johnson played
as if he hadn't missed a beat.

731
00:39:56,064 --> 00:39:59,901
He scored 19 points,
8 rebounds and 10 assists.

732
00:39:59,985 --> 00:40:04,197
As far as him going and playing,
I was happy 'cause he was happy,

733
00:40:04,281 --> 00:40:05,699
but… [smacks lips]

734
00:40:05,782 --> 00:40:09,202
you know, not necessarily thinking
that this was a good thing. [chuckles]

735
00:40:09,286 --> 00:40:11,997
Well, Magic Johnson says,
"Bring on Michael."

736
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,041
The Magic Man appears ready
for a Friday night showdown

737
00:40:15,125 --> 00:40:20,297
with NBA king Michael Jordan
after a spectacular return last night.

738
00:40:20,380 --> 00:40:21,965
-[spectator] Oh. Oh.
-[commentator 2] Magic Johnson backs in.

739
00:40:22,048 --> 00:40:23,800
Rejected by Pippen.

740
00:40:23,884 --> 00:40:26,970
[commentator 3] Back to Magic
off the dribble by Rodman. Short.

741
00:40:29,890 --> 00:40:33,643
[Rosen] What was sad for me was
the second game against the Chicago Bulls,

742
00:40:33,727 --> 00:40:35,687
and they destroyed 'em.

743
00:40:35,770 --> 00:40:37,898
And I know Michael.
I spoke to him after the game.

744
00:40:37,981 --> 00:40:39,691
He-- He felt bad.

745
00:40:39,774 --> 00:40:43,570
I mean, him and Dennis Rodman just--
They obliterated 'em.

746
00:40:43,653 --> 00:40:46,197
I remember Dennis Rodman
wanted to guard him.

747
00:40:46,281 --> 00:40:48,742
You know, so we-- we sic Dennis on him.

748
00:40:48,825 --> 00:40:50,577
[commentator 1] Magic slaps the hand
of Rodman away,

749
00:40:50,660 --> 00:40:52,329
goes around him, and Rodman gets a foul.

750
00:40:52,412 --> 00:40:54,080
And-- Uh-oh. He will…

751
00:40:54,164 --> 00:40:55,957
[Jordan] There was
a lot of shit-talking in the game.

752
00:40:56,041 --> 00:41:00,712
Said, "Look, man, I told you in '92,
there's some new kids on the block."

753
00:41:00,795 --> 00:41:03,340
You know, "It's not Magic Johnson
and Larry Bird anymore.

754
00:41:03,423 --> 00:41:05,592
You're on the way down,
and we're on the way up."

755
00:41:06,092 --> 00:41:09,930
[Rambis] You know, the athleticism
and speed and quickness wasn't there.

756
00:41:10,013 --> 00:41:12,140
Because of his IQ and his size,

757
00:41:12,224 --> 00:41:16,686
he could still make, you know,
a contribution out there on the floor.

758
00:41:16,770 --> 00:41:21,900
But as the season goes on, you'll--
Things start to catch up to you.

759
00:41:21,983 --> 00:41:26,488
[Cookie] He wasn't as excited and happy
as he thought he would be.

760
00:41:26,571 --> 00:41:29,866
It was, you know, kind of grueling,
and it was different.

761
00:41:29,950 --> 00:41:31,534
[commentator] …defense
like he's trying to defend right now,

762
00:41:31,618 --> 00:41:33,328
the Blazers are gonna be all right.

763
00:41:33,411 --> 00:41:35,038
How about that for a reaction?

764
00:41:35,121 --> 00:41:40,418
It took that to tell him,
"Okay, I can retire now.

765
00:41:41,044 --> 00:41:42,921
It's not what it used to be.

766
00:41:43,421 --> 00:41:44,839
I don't want this anymore."

767
00:41:46,091 --> 00:41:49,844
This is not a sad day or a bad day.
It's a good day

768
00:41:49,928 --> 00:41:54,641
because, uh, God blessed me to be able
to come back and, um-- [smacks lips]

769
00:41:54,724 --> 00:41:57,185
And God will continue to bless me
after this is over.

770
00:41:58,228 --> 00:42:01,356
[Cookie] And he kept going back
to try to revive that old life,

771
00:42:01,439 --> 00:42:03,233
which just wasn't gonna happen.

772
00:42:03,316 --> 00:42:05,318
But what happens with his mind--

773
00:42:05,402 --> 00:42:08,697
The way Earvin thinks--
The way Earvin operates is,

774
00:42:08,780 --> 00:42:12,701
he only look forward, and then
that's when the new visions come.

775
00:42:12,784 --> 00:42:16,037
And he gets so excited
about the new visions.

776
00:42:16,830 --> 00:42:18,373
He had different things
he was trying to do.

777
00:42:18,456 --> 00:42:21,001
There was a comeback,
and then there was the TV show.

778
00:42:21,793 --> 00:42:25,088
[newscaster 1] In just a few short months,
Johnson will host The Magic Hour,

779
00:42:25,171 --> 00:42:26,882
a late-night syndicated talk show.

780
00:42:27,465 --> 00:42:29,175
Hi. How you doing? All right?

781
00:42:29,509 --> 00:42:32,262
[newscaster 2] At a recent convention
for television programmers,

782
00:42:32,345 --> 00:42:35,891
he was working the room and pitching
the show to every executive in sight.

783
00:42:35,974 --> 00:42:37,726
How are you? Nice to meet you.

784
00:42:37,809 --> 00:42:41,062
We talked about it.
I thought it was an interesting idea.

785
00:42:41,563 --> 00:42:44,608
I did warn him,
because I handled David Letterman,

786
00:42:45,108 --> 00:42:51,740
and I did advise him
that it's a tough, tough row to hoe.

787
00:42:51,823 --> 00:42:53,950
You've got Leno. You've got Letterman.

788
00:42:54,034 --> 00:42:57,162
This is really a tough arena
that you're getting into.

789
00:42:57,245 --> 00:42:58,788
-Yeah.
-[Stahl] Why are you doing that?

790
00:42:58,872 --> 00:43:02,125
-Because it's a tough arena.
-[Stahl] Ah. [chuckles]

791
00:43:02,834 --> 00:43:08,506
[announcer] Live from Los Angeles,
it's The Magic Hour.

792
00:43:08,590 --> 00:43:11,635
[Kimmel] The Magic Hour is--

793
00:43:11,718 --> 00:43:14,721
Keep in mind, this is coming
from somebody who loves Magic Johnson--

794
00:43:14,804 --> 00:43:17,307
Is one of the-- Not just one
of the worst talk shows,

795
00:43:17,390 --> 00:43:19,809
but one of the worst
television shows in history.

796
00:43:19,893 --> 00:43:23,605
All these twins I got in the front row.
Man!

797
00:43:25,398 --> 00:43:26,900
Look at all these twins.

798
00:43:28,443 --> 00:43:30,904
[studio audience laughing]

799
00:43:30,987 --> 00:43:33,114
-Just for me, huh?
-[audience member] Just for you.

800
00:43:34,491 --> 00:43:39,037
And very quickly he realized, he doesn't
really like doing this every night.

801
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,415
This has to be your breakfast,
lunch and dinner.

802
00:43:42,499 --> 00:43:43,500
It wasn't for him.

803
00:43:43,583 --> 00:43:46,795
He had breakfast and lunch
doing other things.

804
00:43:46,878 --> 00:43:50,382
So he was-- I think he was burning
the candle at too many ends.

805
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,971
You know, the difference between Earvin
and Magic are very different people.

806
00:43:56,888 --> 00:43:59,724
You know, Magic is-- is-- is--
is the character.

807
00:43:59,808 --> 00:44:03,228
You know, he's--
he's the, you know, the man of the world.

808
00:44:03,311 --> 00:44:05,313
You know, he's in front of the camera
with a big smile,

809
00:44:05,397 --> 00:44:07,440
laughing, loving the attention.

810
00:44:07,524 --> 00:44:10,485
You know, he just becomes
a whole new person, like, when he's on.

811
00:44:10,569 --> 00:44:14,197
When he's off, you know,
he's kind of very introverted

812
00:44:14,281 --> 00:44:18,702
and, you know--
and, um, oftentimes quite quiet.

813
00:44:18,785 --> 00:44:21,371
It's like that movie Split.
They're just fighting for the light.

814
00:44:21,454 --> 00:44:23,248
You know, it's like someone--
Earvin might have light,

815
00:44:23,331 --> 00:44:27,002
and then something might change.
And then Magic comes in.

816
00:44:28,295 --> 00:44:34,092
The funny thing is, like, my dad was,
like, almost the same identical brain

817
00:44:34,175 --> 00:44:38,471
and we think, and we process things,
you know, very, very similarly.

818
00:44:38,555 --> 00:44:41,558
And he was figuring himself out.
I was figuring myself out.

819
00:44:44,519 --> 00:44:47,355
The journey to becoming who I am
was the most difficult,

820
00:44:47,439 --> 00:44:52,193
and a lot of that had to do with
this huge name that was hanging over me.

821
00:44:54,738 --> 00:44:57,908
He was always, like--
always watching me when growing up.

822
00:44:57,991 --> 00:45:00,201
Like, testing me and--

823
00:45:00,285 --> 00:45:02,370
Especially when I was younger,
because obviously I always gravitated

824
00:45:02,454 --> 00:45:04,205
for things that are more feminine
and stuff like that.

825
00:45:04,289 --> 00:45:06,207
And he, you know-- That was not allowed.

826
00:45:06,291 --> 00:45:09,127
He would always wanna play
with his sister's dolls,

827
00:45:09,211 --> 00:45:10,962
especially the Barbie dolls,

828
00:45:11,046 --> 00:45:12,881
and dress them up in different things.

829
00:45:12,964 --> 00:45:16,134
And no matter how much
I told him not to do it,

830
00:45:16,718 --> 00:45:18,887
I would go upstairs
and that's what he would be doing.

831
00:45:21,181 --> 00:45:25,435
[EJ] I always snuck Barbies under
my bed or like little dress costumes.

832
00:45:26,645 --> 00:45:27,896
I would hide from him.

833
00:45:29,105 --> 00:45:31,066
It was almost like
I was living a double life.

834
00:45:32,901 --> 00:45:34,444
If it was just an hour

835
00:45:34,945 --> 00:45:37,781
alone in my room where I got
to twirl around in my little dress

836
00:45:37,864 --> 00:45:42,077
and be the evil queen and play
with my dolls, like, that's it.

837
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,204
I would go to school
and be who I wanted to be,

838
00:45:44,287 --> 00:45:46,581
but when I was at home-- No.

839
00:45:49,084 --> 00:45:50,961
[Cookie] It was a spring break
with the kids.

840
00:45:52,254 --> 00:45:54,881
EJ, you know, was, like, 13.

841
00:45:54,965 --> 00:45:59,511
And that's when I saw him looking at
another boy at-- when we were in Hawaii.

842
00:46:01,096 --> 00:46:02,973
I had a conversation with him and said,

843
00:46:03,056 --> 00:46:05,892
"Do you think that you are gay
or you like boys?"

844
00:46:05,976 --> 00:46:09,771
And he was like, "Yes, I do."
And he was really nervous to tell me.

845
00:46:09,854 --> 00:46:14,234
Before he really said it, I was like,
"EJ, you don't have to worry about me.

846
00:46:14,317 --> 00:46:16,820
I already knew who you were."

847
00:46:16,903 --> 00:46:21,825
It's-- And I could see, like, the weight
kind of fall off of his shoulders.

848
00:46:21,908 --> 00:46:24,619
I think he had a conversation
with Cookie at that point,

849
00:46:24,703 --> 00:46:27,706
but he hadn't had a conversation
with my dad yet.

850
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,710
[Cookie] I said, "I'm with you,
and I support you, and I love you.

851
00:46:31,793 --> 00:46:34,129
So next step, how do we tell Dad?"

852
00:46:35,881 --> 00:46:38,008
[Cookie] When we got back
from that vacation,

853
00:46:38,091 --> 00:46:41,928
I decided to tell him right away
because I wanted to get it out of the way.

854
00:46:42,012 --> 00:46:43,930
Because I was ready to move forward.

855
00:46:44,848 --> 00:46:47,517
[EJ] He said, "You need
to be masculine. You need to be this way.

856
00:46:47,601 --> 00:46:49,978
This isn't the life I wanted for you."
And it was just sitting there,

857
00:46:50,061 --> 00:46:52,814
which was like,
"Well, this is very hard to hear."

858
00:46:53,899 --> 00:46:57,569
I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you
and say that, you know,

859
00:46:57,652 --> 00:47:01,740
I accepted what he was doing
in the beginning, 'cause I didn't.

860
00:47:01,823 --> 00:47:04,618
EJ left the room.
I'd-- I-- I lit into him.

861
00:47:04,701 --> 00:47:06,411
Like, "I can't believe you said that.

862
00:47:06,494 --> 00:47:08,455
You know, this is who he is.
Let-- Leave him alone.

863
00:47:08,538 --> 00:47:10,332
Let him be who he-- he wants to be."

864
00:47:10,415 --> 00:47:13,168
I remember talking to EJ afterwards,

865
00:47:13,251 --> 00:47:14,544
and that was tough.

866
00:47:15,503 --> 00:47:16,546
That was tough.

867
00:47:17,172 --> 00:47:20,634
-[paparazzi] What's good, brother?
-What up? What up? What up?

868
00:47:20,717 --> 00:47:23,511
[EJ] I was out one night in LA
just minding my own business,

869
00:47:23,595 --> 00:47:27,474
and me and my friend, who was a guy--
We were holding hands.

870
00:47:28,099 --> 00:47:31,436
When I woke up that next morning,
everything had changed.

871
00:47:31,519 --> 00:47:33,521
I mean, it was everywhere.

872
00:47:33,605 --> 00:47:36,191
It's Magic Johnson's son, EJ, 20-year-old.

873
00:47:36,274 --> 00:47:39,736
Uh, pictures of him just, uh, showed up
with him holding hands with his boyfriend.

874
00:47:40,612 --> 00:47:43,031
[Magic] Everybody was trying
to chase down stories

875
00:47:43,114 --> 00:47:45,909
and trying to say, "Hey, was he gay?"

876
00:47:46,493 --> 00:47:47,869
You know, that was hard for me.

877
00:47:48,578 --> 00:47:50,455
I'm supposed to protect my kids.

878
00:47:50,956 --> 00:47:52,999
My father passed that down to me.

879
00:47:53,083 --> 00:47:56,711
And so with EJ, I had to check myself

880
00:47:57,754 --> 00:48:00,549
and say, "This is who he is,

881
00:48:00,632 --> 00:48:03,927
and you can't put your life on your son.

882
00:48:05,804 --> 00:48:07,889
You gotta change. Not him. You."

883
00:48:10,684 --> 00:48:13,353
[Cookie] Um, so one day, we were at home.

884
00:48:13,436 --> 00:48:16,189
And I heard them talking down the hallway,
near EJ's bedroom,

885
00:48:16,273 --> 00:48:18,858
and I was thinking, "What are they--
Why is he up so early?"

886
00:48:21,778 --> 00:48:26,074
I told him. I said,
"No matter who you want to be,

887
00:48:26,157 --> 00:48:29,160
and whoever you are, I'm gonna love you."

888
00:48:29,244 --> 00:48:33,623
He literally hugged me so hard. I thought
he was gonna break my back in half.

889
00:48:33,707 --> 00:48:36,585
And, like, that's when I knew.
I was like, "We got this."

890
00:48:36,668 --> 00:48:38,879
[Williams] The fabulous EJ Johnson.

891
00:48:38,962 --> 00:48:41,840
You didn't just come out of the closet,
you kicked the hinges off the door.

892
00:48:41,923 --> 00:48:42,757
[studio audience cheers]

893
00:48:43,383 --> 00:48:44,718
This is what it's all about.

894
00:48:44,801 --> 00:48:47,596
-I'm gonna love him for who he is, and--
-That's right.

895
00:48:49,180 --> 00:48:50,557
[EJ] That he was there for me,

896
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,810
it spoke volumes a lot,
to a lot of families

897
00:48:53,894 --> 00:48:56,146
and a lot of, you know, fathers and sons.

898
00:48:56,229 --> 00:48:58,440
Especially, you know, those of color.

899
00:48:58,523 --> 00:49:00,191
All I saw was a father's love

900
00:49:00,775 --> 00:49:03,028
and just how proud he was
talking about EJ.

901
00:49:03,653 --> 00:49:08,116
And I didn't know that I would be dealing
with something similar many years later.

902
00:49:08,825 --> 00:49:10,744
And for me, I can go back to that.

903
00:49:10,827 --> 00:49:14,915
I can go back to a proud dad
talking about his child. Nothing else.

904
00:49:15,498 --> 00:49:20,170
[EJ] He really respects me and who I am
and showing who you are

905
00:49:20,253 --> 00:49:21,922
and-- and not being afraid.

906
00:49:22,005 --> 00:49:25,967
What he did for so many young people,

907
00:49:26,051 --> 00:49:27,677
that made me feel so good.

908
00:49:27,761 --> 00:49:29,304
He's mentioned that to me before.

909
00:49:29,387 --> 00:49:33,516
And he's like, "I've, you know-- I've
learned so much just by being your father

910
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:34,893
and watching you and--"

911
00:49:34,976 --> 00:49:37,812
And I think that that's really
when he got to see that, like,

912
00:49:37,896 --> 00:49:41,358
we are way more alike
than we are different.

913
00:49:41,441 --> 00:49:46,780
The gag is, you'll never know
that we are closer than close.

914
00:49:46,863 --> 00:49:48,573
[cheering]

915
00:49:50,700 --> 00:49:56,456
[Brown] Earvin recognized that there was
lots of young people who had struggles.

916
00:49:56,539 --> 00:50:00,168
So we were gonna expand the foundation

917
00:50:00,252 --> 00:50:06,508
from a single-focus, HIV/AIDS focused,
and we expanded it to scholarships.

918
00:50:06,591 --> 00:50:09,302
The Magic Johnson Foundation
was my extended family.

919
00:50:10,220 --> 00:50:12,222
[Johns]
I'm a former scholarship recipient

920
00:50:12,305 --> 00:50:15,809
of the Magic Johnson/Taylor Michaels
Scholarship Program.

921
00:50:15,892 --> 00:50:19,479
[Brown] The scholarship
focused on identifying students

922
00:50:19,563 --> 00:50:25,318
that needed not only financial support,
but that also needed a mentor.

923
00:50:26,403 --> 00:50:31,157
The vast majority of students who are
selected face significant hardship.

924
00:50:31,241 --> 00:50:34,828
They had the grades to go to college.
They just didn't have the financial means,

925
00:50:34,911 --> 00:50:38,039
and so the Magic Johnson Foundation
helped them with that.

926
00:50:38,748 --> 00:50:41,877
[Brown] Not only
did we provide scholarships,

927
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:45,881
we gave them the tools to succeed.

928
00:50:45,964 --> 00:50:49,467
We realized you can't just give
these students money to go to college,

929
00:50:49,551 --> 00:50:52,095
but they need support the entire way.

930
00:50:52,679 --> 00:50:55,265
[Grant] We had technology centers
in multiple cities

931
00:50:55,348 --> 00:51:00,854
to provide laptops, résumé training,
interview workshops.

932
00:51:01,855 --> 00:51:05,859
There were about 30 of us
who started in the program,

933
00:51:05,942 --> 00:51:07,944
and then year after year, it grew.

934
00:51:08,528 --> 00:51:11,740
[Magic] All the thousands of kids,
all those young people

935
00:51:11,823 --> 00:51:13,909
that we put in college, you know.

936
00:51:14,492 --> 00:51:16,703
It's just a-- It's just beautiful, man.

937
00:51:16,786 --> 00:51:20,123
Magic Johnson, whom we
affectionately call "Daddy Earv,"

938
00:51:20,206 --> 00:51:22,083
was-- was like a father figure.

939
00:51:22,167 --> 00:51:26,671
And I have an excellent father, um,
but he was like a bonus dad.

940
00:51:26,755 --> 00:51:29,841
We call him "Daddy Earv." It's hard for me
to say "Magic" at this point.

941
00:51:29,925 --> 00:51:31,468
They called him "Daddy Earv,"

942
00:51:31,551 --> 00:51:37,057
and, um, he was a big, big,
big part of their lives.

943
00:51:37,807 --> 00:51:42,020
He wasn't the--
the basketball star around us,

944
00:51:42,103 --> 00:51:44,689
so he wasn't Earvin "Magic" Johnson.

945
00:51:44,773 --> 00:51:48,151
He was warm, and he was tender,
and he was compassionate.

946
00:51:48,235 --> 00:51:51,780
[Grant] And he is someone
who likes to see you grow.

947
00:51:51,863 --> 00:51:56,785
He loves to see the potential,
invest in it, encourage, water.

948
00:51:57,619 --> 00:52:00,705
He gave us that confidence.
Like, shoulders back, chin up, chest out.

949
00:52:00,789 --> 00:52:04,834
You are somebody. You have something
to say. People need to hear it.

950
00:52:04,918 --> 00:52:06,336
No fear. Go forth.

951
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,382
[EJ] Like, that's what really makes him
a legend and an icon in my eyes.

952
00:52:10,465 --> 00:52:14,678
And, um, he-- he went higher than--
probably than he could even have imagined.

953
00:52:14,761 --> 00:52:17,389
And he just kept going and going,
and he keeps going and going.

954
00:52:19,057 --> 00:52:20,225
[newscaster 1]
He's one of the best guards,

955
00:52:20,308 --> 00:52:22,686
perhaps the best basketball player
of all time.

956
00:52:22,769 --> 00:52:25,814
[newscaster 2] The first player ever
to win a high school,

957
00:52:25,897 --> 00:52:29,568
an NCAA, an NBA
and an Olympic championship.

958
00:52:29,651 --> 00:52:33,321
[newscaster 1] He's won five MVPs
and five championship rings.

959
00:52:33,405 --> 00:52:36,783
[newscaster 3] Johnson has made
an impact as a successful businessman.

960
00:52:36,866 --> 00:52:38,618
He has helped revitalize
urban neighborhoods.

961
00:52:39,244 --> 00:52:43,039
[newscaster 4] He's become synonymous with
the city of Los Angeles and much more.

962
00:52:45,500 --> 00:52:49,921
I brought my mom, I remember,
'cause my father didn't make it that time.

963
00:52:50,005 --> 00:52:53,341
And all of a sudden,
she-- I saw her tear up.

964
00:52:54,426 --> 00:52:55,969
And I said, "Mom, what's wrong?"

965
00:52:56,803 --> 00:53:00,682
She said, "I cannot believe it,
and your grandfather--

966
00:53:02,058 --> 00:53:05,937
He would have just been out of his mind

967
00:53:06,021 --> 00:53:09,149
to know that--
Jackie Robinson was his favorite player.

968
00:53:10,025 --> 00:53:13,486
He cheered for Jackie,
listened to every game on the radio,

969
00:53:14,571 --> 00:53:20,368
and now the team that Jackie played for,
you own-- One of the owners of the team."

970
00:53:20,452 --> 00:53:22,203
And I was like, "Wow."

971
00:53:31,421 --> 00:53:36,259
I was born the day after Jackie Robinson
played his first game in Brooklyn.

972
00:53:36,343 --> 00:53:39,596
That was, uh, very significant
in my household.

973
00:53:43,808 --> 00:53:45,727
[people in crowd cheering]

974
00:53:45,810 --> 00:53:47,938
[Abdul-Jabbar]
Sixty years later… [chuckles]

975
00:53:48,772 --> 00:53:50,106
…and it's Magic.

976
00:53:50,190 --> 00:53:56,363
And that was, uh, the type of good luck
that you cannot-- you can't order it up.

977
00:53:56,446 --> 00:53:57,739
It just happens.

978
00:53:57,822 --> 00:54:01,243
[newscaster 1] Magic Johnson is joining
a new team, the LA Dodgers.

979
00:54:01,326 --> 00:54:04,996
[newscaster 2] His winning lineage
with the Lakers and his megawatt smile

980
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,374
have all of a sudden, by themselves,

981
00:54:07,457 --> 00:54:10,669
lifted a cloud that's really plagued
Dodgers and their fans.

982
00:54:12,087 --> 00:54:14,214
It's-- It's-- I can't-- [clears throat]

983
00:54:15,340 --> 00:54:17,092
I can't even put into words how it is.

984
00:54:17,175 --> 00:54:20,136
-So, um, it's a great time.
-[crowd applauds]

985
00:54:20,804 --> 00:54:21,805
[clears throat]

986
00:54:24,182 --> 00:54:28,019
[Magic] Well, my father was about
never owing anybody anything.

987
00:54:28,103 --> 00:54:34,192
So he would always teach me
about owning the car that he drove,

988
00:54:34,276 --> 00:54:35,986
owning the house that we lived in.

989
00:54:36,778 --> 00:54:38,405
That's the power in America.

990
00:54:39,531 --> 00:54:42,325
[commentator]
Dodgers have won it all in 2020.

991
00:54:45,996 --> 00:54:47,372
This is what it's all about.

992
00:54:47,455 --> 00:54:49,583
And you know what I had told them
when we bought the team?

993
00:54:49,666 --> 00:54:55,005
"I got all these Laker championship rings.
I wanted a World Series ring."

994
00:54:55,088 --> 00:54:57,382
And sure enough, I got one. Yeah!

995
00:54:58,133 --> 00:55:00,260
The Black kid from Lansing, Michigan.

996
00:55:00,844 --> 00:55:02,762
It's all about ownership.

997
00:55:02,846 --> 00:55:04,180
That's the game he's in now.

998
00:55:04,264 --> 00:55:06,141
[newscaster 1] Once again,
Johnson is bringing the magic

999
00:55:06,224 --> 00:55:07,809
back to a beloved franchise.

1000
00:55:07,893 --> 00:55:10,645
They said, "Let's buy the Sparks."
I said, "Okay, let's go do it."

1001
00:55:12,272 --> 00:55:13,690
[teammates] Let's go, Sparks!

1002
00:55:13,773 --> 00:55:15,859
If you ask him right now,
"So, what's next?"

1003
00:55:15,942 --> 00:55:19,112
He's gonna be like, "Glad you asked.
So here's the thing." [chuckles]

1004
00:55:19,195 --> 00:55:21,406
[newscaster 2]
Los Angeles icon Magic Johnson

1005
00:55:21,489 --> 00:55:24,826
is part of a powerhouse group
financing LAFC,

1006
00:55:24,910 --> 00:55:28,330
a new soccer club
recently approved by the MLS.

1007
00:55:28,413 --> 00:55:30,916
[McAdoo] That's what I like seeing,
as a older Black man.

1008
00:55:30,999 --> 00:55:35,837
You know, he's doing things that we--
we couldn't dream of doing.

1009
00:55:37,839 --> 00:55:40,258
[Holoman]
Earvin's always been a trailblazer,

1010
00:55:40,342 --> 00:55:43,637
and I think the important part
of that is--

1011
00:55:43,720 --> 00:55:45,305
is we don't just kick the door open.

1012
00:55:45,388 --> 00:55:49,100
We make sure that we leave it open and--
and provide a path for others to follow.

1013
00:55:50,393 --> 00:55:52,312
[Wade] Everything that
I've always wanted to accomplish

1014
00:55:52,395 --> 00:55:53,772
or didn't think was attainable,

1015
00:55:53,855 --> 00:55:57,567
once-- Magic has shown us, once again,
"Hey, guys. You can do it."

1016
00:55:57,651 --> 00:56:00,737
[Barkley] That's one of the reasons
all the brothers admire Earvin.

1017
00:56:00,820 --> 00:56:06,534
He's the first guy who taught us
how to make money away from basketball

1018
00:56:07,285 --> 00:56:12,540
and also go back in your communities and
give people of color economic opportunity.

1019
00:56:12,624 --> 00:56:14,209
That's a really big deal.

1020
00:56:14,292 --> 00:56:15,752
We all owe Magic.

1021
00:56:16,795 --> 00:56:19,381
Like, you know, you talk about
generation from generation,

1022
00:56:20,257 --> 00:56:21,341
I owe Magic.

1023
00:56:23,301 --> 00:56:26,221
[Smith] Magic Johnson
made it very, very popular

1024
00:56:26,304 --> 00:56:29,349
to not have any excuses
to fall and stay down.

1025
00:56:29,432 --> 00:56:30,642
Because if anybody could have

1026
00:56:31,268 --> 00:56:34,020
he could have, and he refused to do so.

1027
00:56:34,104 --> 00:56:35,605
And look at how he's shining today.

1028
00:56:37,816 --> 00:56:40,694
Although he took the long way around

1029
00:56:41,194 --> 00:56:43,029
to get to this point,

1030
00:56:43,113 --> 00:56:45,657
how he is with Cookie…

1031
00:56:48,201 --> 00:56:50,495
-[Easley] It's amazing.
-It's what everybody would want.

1032
00:56:50,579 --> 00:56:53,623
-[Easley] It's a wonderful love story.
-It's what-- It's what-- Yeah, it-- it is.

1033
00:56:53,707 --> 00:56:56,459
Wherever they are at as a couple,

1034
00:56:56,543 --> 00:56:58,545
he's looking out for Cookie.
"Where's Cookie?"

1035
00:56:58,628 --> 00:57:00,547
He's got her by her hand,
or he's looking for her.

1036
00:57:00,630 --> 00:57:02,632
-Right.
-And I love the way he does her

1037
00:57:02,716 --> 00:57:04,759
and the way he treats her
and the way he looks at her.

1038
00:57:04,843 --> 00:57:08,430
It is just-- You can--
It's so much love, and I just--

1039
00:57:08,513 --> 00:57:10,891
That's one of my favorite things
about their relationship

1040
00:57:10,974 --> 00:57:12,642
is that love that they have
for each other.

1041
00:57:13,226 --> 00:57:17,981
[Webster] Leading up
to their extravaganza in Nice, France,

1042
00:57:18,064 --> 00:57:21,818
-was just incredible.
-[crew member] I got videos of that. Wow.

1043
00:57:21,902 --> 00:57:24,154
-[Easley] And, yeah. He did that for her.
-[Webster] Saint-Tropez.

1044
00:57:24,237 --> 00:57:26,281
It just was amazing.

1045
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:33,663
[people at party] Surprise! [cheering]

1046
00:57:33,747 --> 00:57:38,627
[Magic] We say thank you for coming
and being a part of our 25th anniversary.

1047
00:57:39,502 --> 00:57:43,006
[Cookie] You look back and reflect back,
'cause it's 25 years, and I go--

1048
00:57:43,089 --> 00:57:45,217
[gasps] Even though I'm praying every day,

1049
00:57:45,300 --> 00:57:47,260
like, thinking that a miracle
is gonna happen…

1050
00:57:49,304 --> 00:57:51,806
it hit me that the miracle did happen.

1051
00:57:52,557 --> 00:57:53,934
Because he's still here.

1052
00:57:55,769 --> 00:57:57,145
He's still healthy.

1053
00:57:58,855 --> 00:58:00,482
We are living our miracle.

1054
00:58:02,609 --> 00:58:05,779
You can argue all you want about the GOAT.

1055
00:58:06,404 --> 00:58:09,241
You can talk about Bill Russell,
Jerry West, Oscar Robertson,

1056
00:58:09,324 --> 00:58:11,743
Wilt Chamberlain to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

1057
00:58:11,826 --> 00:58:14,204
You know, talk about Michael Jordan,
LeBron James.

1058
00:58:14,287 --> 00:58:15,538
You can go on and on.

1059
00:58:16,414 --> 00:58:19,125
And not because I coached him,

1060
00:58:19,209 --> 00:58:22,003
not because I just love him,
I think he's the greatest of all time.

1061
00:58:23,255 --> 00:58:25,340
[Bird] You know,
everybody has their own opinions.

1062
00:58:25,423 --> 00:58:26,967
I have my own opinion.

1063
00:58:27,050 --> 00:58:29,427
But, uh, it doesn't matter who's better.

1064
00:58:29,511 --> 00:58:31,263
We'll be linked together
for the rest of our life.

1065
00:58:32,389 --> 00:58:33,390
[Snoop Dogg] His name is Magic.

1066
00:58:33,473 --> 00:58:36,017
So we knew it was gonna be
something magical.

1067
00:58:36,851 --> 00:58:40,188
He does not realize
the impact of his name.

1068
00:58:41,064 --> 00:58:42,524
His name will be there forever.

1069
00:58:45,110 --> 00:58:46,861
[Magic] I never got caught into "Magic."

1070
00:58:46,945 --> 00:58:50,740
I didn't think it was going to stick,
and I didn't think it was going to last.

1071
00:58:50,824 --> 00:58:52,534
And here I am.

1072
00:58:52,617 --> 00:58:56,288
I'm 61 now,
and people are still calling me Magic.

1073
00:58:56,371 --> 00:58:57,914
So I guess I was wrong,

1074
00:58:59,791 --> 00:59:01,167
and everybody else was right.