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This heads-up approach got its impetus early in his hoop career when he witnessed the fleecing of fellow Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who lost millions to unscrupulous financial advisers in the 1980s. Johnson dumped his own advisers and started demanding monthly statements from his new ones. He realized that Magic Johnson was a brand name as well as his own, and that he wasn't benefiting from it. So he became the first active N.B.A. player to be a league licensee. "I just kept seeing all these people wearing my T shirts, and I was not getting a dime...
...Southern California. Really grows up. By the seventh grade she is 6 ft. tall. By the eighth grade she is 6 ft. 2 in. A friend asks her to play basketball for the school. She has no female role models for this, so James Worthy, the Los Angeles Laker star, becomes her role model. "I loved James," she says, "because he was the player other players would go to when they needed a basket." Senior year in high school she scores 101 points in one game. In a single half. She learns how to dunk. She is signed by Wilhelmina...
ATLANTA: The Shaq Attack is going Hollywood. The Los Angeles Lakers announced Thursday that they have signed the motherlode of NBA free agents, Orlando's Shaquille O'Neal, to a seven-year, $120 million contract. The move to Los Angeles allows O'Neal, a recording and movie star in his spare time, to more easily pursue these other endeavours. While Laker fans are excited about the addition of a new megastar to the Los Angeles scene, the reaction in Orlando may not be as negative as one would expect. In a poll in the Orlando Sentinel earlier this week...
Into overtime the contest went, and for the third consecutive year, Harvard's season ended in the extra session. Laker Clayton Beddoes caught a perfect pass for a breakaway and five-holed goalie Aaron Israel. Nevertheless, Harvard's 24-5-4 record was its best one since the 1988-89 national championship team, as the team only two of its final 23 games...
When Harris signaled for Johnson to replace Elden Campbell after 2:21 of the first quarter, the crowd again rose and cheered for Magic's first game as a Laker since June 12, 1991. Even though he missed his first shot, it was just like old times--an assist (the 9,922nd of his career), a right-handed running shot, a left-handed hook and then, with four minutes left in the first quarter, the real indication that he was back. Johnson faked a pass, and defender Latrell Sprewell was so fooled that Magic simply sashayed past him and laid...