How did the Lakers Get Magic Johnson?

Written by Gary Lee on 08/14/2011 in News - Comments Off

Lakers Nation would like to wish Magic Johnson a happy 52nd birthday today. Many of you have seen the highlights with all the champagne, no look passes and million dollar smiles, but how many of you know how lucky the Lakers were to land Magic?

Quick Takeaways that I got from this video was:

In the 1970′s, teams that lost players to free agency were compensated by the teams that the player signed with
Gail Goodrich was the Vlade Divac of his time.
The Lakers Dynasty and Bulls Dynasty were decided with the flip of a coin

Thanks to ProBasketballTalk.com for finding this and for NBA Trade Tracker for putting this together.

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