Magic Johnson Magic Johnson Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is an American retired professional basketball player and current president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played point guard for the Lakers for 13 seasons. After winning championships in high school and college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA draft by the Lakers. He won a championship and an 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
Robert S. Johnson State Senate conference room on the fourth floor of the Oklahoma State Capitol. Johnson collaborated with aviation author Martin Caidin to write his autobiographical story of the 56th Fighter Group, "Thunderbolt!", in 1958. Notes Citations Bibliography Robert S. Johnson Robert Samuel Johnson (February 21, 1920 – December 27, 1998) was a fighter pilot with the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. He is credited with scoring 27 victories during the conflict flying a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. Johnson was the first USAAF fighter pilot in the European theater to surpass Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I score of