Magic Johnson
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"Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr." is a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 13 seasons. After winning championships in High school basketball#U.S. high school basketball/high school and College basketball/college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA Draft by the Lakers. He won a championship and an Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award/NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his rookie season, and won four more championships with the Lakers during the 1980s. Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after announcing that he had contracted HIV, but returned to play in the 1992 NBA All-Star Game/1992 All-Star Game, winning the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award/All-Star MVP Award. After protests from his fellow players, he retired again for four years, but returned in 1996, at age 36, to play 32 games for the Lakers before retiring for the third and final time.

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Kids need to dream, they need to know that people care about them and they should be able to see outside every single day, because that's what helps you dream.

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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.

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But right now, that's not happening. God is blessing me, so we're going to continue to do what we're doing.

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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

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I can't do it by myself. Hopefully, these other guys and ladies will come on out and invest in our community, because this is not good business, it's great business! You can make some money.

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We were doing inventory and I said, 'Okay, I know the inner city. I know how we do when we go to movies. These hot dogs are going to be gone the first week.' (They say,) 'No way, no way. We don't sell that much over at such and such.' What happens? We open on a Friday, the hot dogs are gone by Sunday? by Sunday!

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We're not letting you just come into our community anymore without a partner or without one of us being a partner in that deal, .

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Believe it or not, I was once just like you, ... I was sitting in a school just like this. I had dreams and goals just like you and never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be Magic Johnson.

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Next season, Ohio State center recruit Greg Oden will be the best player to enter the league since Magic Johnson became a (Michigan State) Spartan in 1977.

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