Nickname: magic.
Height: 6 feet 9 inches
Weight: 255 lbs
High school: Eve Park Jung Su High School (Lansing, Michigan)
University: Michigan State University
Draft: 1979 was selected by the Lakers.
Career turning point:1991165438+1retired on October 7; 1996 65438+/kloc-0 returned on October 29th, and retired for the last time on May 1996 14.
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★ Elected to the Nasmith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002;
★ Five NBA championships, namely 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987,1988;
★ Three NBA Finals MVPs, at 1980, 1982 and1987 respectively;
★ Three NBA regular season MVPs, namely 1987, 1989 and1990;
★1983-1991year, selected as the first team of NBA best team of the year for 9 times, and 1992 as the second team of NBA best team of the year;
★ 12 was selected for the NBA All-Star Game and won the All-Star MVP in 1990 and1992 respectively;
★ 1992 won the Olympic men's basketball gold medal on behalf of the US team;
★ 1996 was selected as one of the top 50 superstars in NBA history.
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Only a few athletes are truly different. They have changed the way of competition with their unique skills. Owen-"the magician"-John Xun is one of these people.
How great is he? He is so great that younger fans can't wait to enter the world of basketball early: then they can witness the magician's performance with their own eyes instead of just watching the wonderful scenes of the past repeatedly.
The magician was robertjoseph cousy in the 1950s, oscar robertson in the 1960s and Julius Erving in the 1970s ... However, he was not only a revolutionary athlete, but also the highest point guard in NBA history. His infinite talent has inspired countless fans to worship and fantasize about him.
Whether he passed the ball behind his back to James Worthy, the fast attacking cobra, the last-minute long-distance fatal blow, or he could light up the whole audience's smile, everyone who witnessed his game deeply remembered the situation at that time. From the moment he stepped on the court, everyone would think about such a question: How did this "giant" change the ball with his body in various ways? It's like performing magic.
The magician's contribution is almost everything a player dreams of in his career, and he dedicated this 13 to the same team: the Los Angeles Lakers. He is a member of the team that won the championship five times. Won the regular season MVP and the finals MVP three times respectively. 12 All-Star Journey, nine NBA All-Star players, whose total assists exceeded Robertson's career, until this record was broken by stockton. He is also a member of the American Dream Team who won the men's basketball championship in Barcelona on 1992.
His comprehensiveness is illustrated by the data of "three pairs". Although in history, Robertson is the representative of the first three pairs of data. Unfortunately, in the 1960s, when Big O was located, no one thought of counting the data of triple doubles.
Magicians have always had a childlike love for basketball. He seems to be born with the passion to compete on the court, not thinking about fame and honor, but just enjoying basketball happily.
If the magician's game is the most awesome, it must be his clever passing skills. He passed the ball in various ways, dazzling the audience and making the opponent dizzy. In the next fast break, "a diversion", extremely accurate cross-field empty catch, from the gap between the three-person double team to feed the ball to the vacant teammates; When the defender thought he was going to pass the ball, he threw it; But when they think the magician is going to throw, it is passing the ball. ...
Michael cooper, a former swingman of the Lakers, said, "Many times I'm not sure what he wants when he puts on the ball, but our players can score when they receive the ball. I can't wait to go back and verify whether he really passed the ball to such a wonderful place! "
1959 On August 4th, the magician was born and raised in Lansing, Michigan. He has nine brothers and sisters. Their father works in General Motors and their mother is a school administrator. Little John Hudson spent his childhood singing in the street with his friends, and of course he also played ball games. He always appears in the stadium at 7: 30 in the morning, and his neighbors affectionately call him "busy bug" or "child"
"I practiced all day," the magician told the American Sunday newspaper. "I dribbled the ball with my right hand on the way to the store, and even slept with my basketball in my left hand when I came back."
John Xun was first called a magician when he was in high school. A sports writer named 15-year-old rising star "magician" after seeing him score 36 points 16 rebounds 16 assists in a game. In high school, John Xun led his high school to win the state championship with a record of 27 wins/kloc-0 losses. Average 28.8 points 16.8 rebounds per game.
John chose a school close to home when he entered the university, so he decided to study at the University of Michigan east of Lansing. The rookie season left a deep impression (17 points, 7.9 rebounds and 7.4 assists). He led the team into the top ten of the division with a record of 25 wins and 5 losses, and became the best magician in the United States in his sophomore year. He led the team to win the championship with 1979, defeating Indiana led by larry bird at that time. They were the most popular at that time.
After finishing what he wanted to achieve in college, the magician skipped the last two years of college and directly participated in the NBA draft of 1979. Utah Jazz wanted to choose Magic at first, but they have traded their draft pick to the Lakers and signed Gail Goodrich. So the Lakers were able to pick magicians with the No.1 pick of the year.
At that time, the team was undergoing some major changes: with the new head coach Jack McKinney and the new boss Jerry Buss, there will be seven new faces on the court next season. With the most exciting college player in the country wearing the Lakers' uniforms at that time, Bass naturally looked forward to restoring the noise at home, and the "performance moment" was about to be born!
Fans who watched the magician's first NBA game witnessed his passionate performance in his career. After Tengu defeated San Diego with a fatal blow in the first game of the regular season, the magician went crazy with excitement, clapping and hugging ... At that time, all commentators predicted that the magician was not far from his own outbreak ... and Tengu calmed him down at that time, because there were still 865,438+0 games, not counting the playoffs.
After that season, the rookie of the year was won by Bird. But the championship belongs to the Lakers. The Lakers topped the division with 60 wins and 22 losses, which was the second best record in the league that year. (When the Lakers coach was absent due to a serious car accident 14), Magic fully reflected his data in college in 77 games this season (18.0 points, 7.7 rebounds and 7.3 assists). In this way, in that year, Magic became the first player to be selected as an all-star rookie after elvin hayes 1 1.
In the 1980 NBA Finals against the 76ers, the magician's last performance in the sixth game doomed his legend. At that time, after the dog contributed 40 points in the fifth game, the ankle injury worsened, with a total score of 3-2. The Lakers need to try it at the home of the 76ers.
At this time, the magician appeared as a 20-year-old rookie and replaced Tiangou as the center. However, after that game, he almost became a generalist. He even won the opening jump ball with Tengu, and even led the Lakers to victory with 42 points 15 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals! In this way, he also became the first rookie to win the finals MVP. It was the magician's amazing superhuman ability that made the Lakers win the final victory.
In the Los Angeles Times, Westheide described his amazing rookie like this: "We all thought he was a character in a movie, and we found him to be a real person. He is like an excellent surgeon, but at the same time he knows how to repair machines. "
The next year is not very good for Magic and Lakers. In the first month, Tom Burleson, a 7-foot-2 eagle, hit Magic's left knee when he fell, forcing him to miss 45 games. When he came back, it happened to be one of the three games of the Lakers' "best" playoff trip, against the Houston Rockets. In the whole series, Magic 13 only made two shots, and at the end of the third game, he threw an air ball ... In this way, the Lakers 89-86 lost the game and left the playoffs.
However, in the 198 1-82 season, Magic and his Lakers began to rebound, regained the division championship, swept 76 ers out of six finals, and Magic won the finals MVP again. But there have also been a lot of negative news this season. Previously, Westheide planned to change the offensive style of the team again, and the magician firmly believed that this change would reduce his importance to the team. The "riots" in the team were mentioned in a large-scale report. After the game against Jazz, the magician broke out in the locker room and said, "I don't want to continue playing here, I want to leave!" I demand to be traded! " . The media is still waiting for the magician to come forward and clarify that what he said was a joke, but he didn't. ...
However, Winterhead was fired the next day and was replaced by Pat Riley, then assistant coach. At the appearance ceremony of Riley's first home game, all the home fans hissed at the magician. In Seattle, the magician was laughed at by the fans every time he caught the ball; When he was an All-Star, he got enough votes but was not selected for the starting lineup, which was the only time in his career that he was not an All-Star starter except for injury. And all this, until he staged a stunning performance in the playoffs, stopped all these doubts about him.
On the field, the magician's play is gorgeous and stable. Won the second personal steal champion, and kept his career comprehensive data not less than 17.6 points, 5.9 rebounds 10.5 assists.
Two years under Winterhead made the magician's personal data look good, but it didn't improve the whole Lakers much. The magician won two of his four assists in those two years and continued to improve his comprehensive skills. 1982-83 NBA finals against the 76 ers. Unfortunately, norm nixon, Worthy and bob mcadoo of the Lakers were all trapped by injuries, so the 76ers won the series.
1984 finals, Nixon left, Tengu was 40 years old, and the magician signed a contract of 25 million. Magic reached the lowest point of his career in seven games against Boston, but he dominated three of the Lakers' seven victories at the end of the game.
With the improvement of Magic's outside shooting and assists, the Lakers won three NBA championships in the next four years. The first game was in the finals of 1985, when the Lakers won their first ring of three consecutive championships from their arch-rival Celtic. After the first loss in the whole series, 148- 1 14 also became a "shame" anniversary, but no one predicted how the Lakers would rebound in the next six games. Then, the Lakers won the first victory over Boston in the finals with a victory of1100!
1986-87 season hooks are limited and eyes are infected. At this time, the magician did what most people think is his weakest side: scoring! He first scored 38 points against the Rockets, and then scored a career-high 46 points against the Kings. He averaged 23.9 points this season, which is the highest point of his career.
That season, the magician won the regular season MVP in the eighth year of his career, and Big Bird had won three MVP trophies by then. This shows the magician's desire for this honor. Before the release of the MVP, the magician told the Los Angeles Times, "Now the ratio of Big Bird to my MVP is 3: 0, which really tickles my heart" (in fact, the evaluation results of 1989 and 1990 are very close to that of Big Bird).
1987, the magician won his third finals MVP trophy and beat Boston back in six games. It was also that year that the magician officially took over the position of Tengu and became the real team leader. In team training, Tengu teaches magicians how to use this skill. The magician quickly learned this skill in his own way, that is, this unique skill, which enabled the Lakers to beat the Celtics by 107- 160 in the fourth game of the finals, which was the second time for the Lakers to conquer the Celtics in three years.
1988, the Lakers won seven games in a row against the pistons, becoming the second team to successfully defend its title after 1968, except the Green Corps. In the next two seasons, Magic averaged more than 20 points per game, leading the Lakers to the division championship for two years. 1988-89, Tengu's last season with the Lakers. In the finals, the magician was bound by a tendon injury and the Lakers were swept by the perfect combination of pistons at that time. The following year, the Lakers struggled with the departure of old players and lost to the Suns in the semi-finals of the division.
1990-9 1, the magician helped the Lakers win 58 wins and 24 losses, defeated the glider and led the division champion Trailblazers to win the Western Conference finals, but lost to the Bulls led by Jordan after five games in the finals, which was the ninth time in Magic 12' s career.
199 1-92 before the start of the season, the magician publicly announced that he was unfortunately infected with AIDS and had to retire from the NBA. He tried to make a comeback in that year's all-star period, and led the West Side 153- 1 13 to win the championship in that year's all-star period. He also won the MVP of that All-Star, and he promoted the prevention and care of AIDS in the League, which also won him the J. Walter Kennedy Citizen Award from the League.
The magician also insisted on participating in the men's basketball dream team of the 1992 American Olympic Games and wrote a book about safe sex. As a player, he also continued some business activities, working as a TV commentator on NBC and participating in some voting activities in NBA on some predictions. 1993-94 with 16 games left, he took over as the Lakers coach.
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When the magician came out as the head coach, the Lakers were still struggling to get into the playoffs. After the magician took office, the Lakers won five games in a row. Unfortunately, I lost the last six games. Then the magician announced that he would no longer be the head coach next season.
"I want to go home," he told the United Daily News. "I never dreamed of becoming a coach. I like to own it, so I prefer to be a businessman. I must pursue your dream. " 1994, he realized his dream and became a member of the owner of the Lakers.
1995, the magician owned another enterprise, opened a chain cinema in Los Angeles, and later developed into other cities. He also traveled around the world as a former player to Asia and Australia, and organized a basketball speech team to perform for fans. (The main members are college and NBA players)
But he still hasn't completely left the NBA. 1995-96 the magician came back and played 32 regular-season games for the Lakers, but by that time he was 255 kg, and he was trying to do what he could as a defender at PF. 1996 In the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers were eliminated by the Rockets and Magic retired again.
In Magic 13 NBA season, he always scored17,707 points (averaging 19.5 points); * * * 6559 rebounds (7.2 per game); *** 10, 14 1 assists (average 1 1.2 times), plus * * 1.724 steals, which is the ninth best data in history. He is also the king of steals in all-star history, 127 times, with the most three points, 10.
1996-96, Magic was elected to the 50-year NBA50 All-Star Team, and was elected to the Nasmith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002.
Is he the best player of his time? In fact, magicians are great players in the whole history.
"Magicians are taller than others," larry bird told the Chicago Sun Times. I have never seen such an excellent athlete as him.
★ james worthy: Selected in 2004.
Technical Statistics of "Magic" Johnson's Career
Number of appearances 906
The shooting percentage is 0.520.
The free throw percentage is 0.848.
Total rebounds 6559
Average 7.2 rebounds per game.
The total assists are 10 14 1.
Average assists 1 1.2.
Total steals 1724
Total upper limit 374
The total score is 17707.
Average score 19.5.
Personal opinion: Yes, that was the case at that time.
Question 1: We want to know if/where it will rain tomorrow.
Question 2: I want to ask Jim why he hasn't returned the book from the library.
Question 3: