My life - Earvin Johnson

On November 7, 1991 Magic Johnson, icon of the American basketball courts, announced that he was retiring from the professional game because he had been diagnozed as HIV positive. His announcement stunned America and sent shockwaves around the world.;From his childhood in Michigan, Magic Johnson has had a successful life. The ultimate team player, he led the Los Angeles Lakers to five National Basketball Association championships in the 1980s. His unselfishness, his leadership and his sheer talent made everyone who played with him look as dazzling as he did. His brilliance as a basketball player has been matched by his enormous personal popularity.;This is the story of Magic Johnson's life: his boyhood, his high school and college careers, his meteoric rise to basketball fame as a Laker, his glamourous life on the road, his hopes, fears, fulfilments and regrets. Magic writes about his family, the important women in his life, his teammates and his coaches, and about being a symbol and a role model.