Born Earvin Johnson, "Magic" Johnson earned his nickname with his dynamic basketball skills and charismatic leadership. Considered by many to be the greatest point guard in NBA history, Johnson led the Los Angeles Lakers to five NBA championships. His spectacular play inspired additions to the basketball lexicon that soon became household words: "winning time," "triple-double," and "three-peat." After being diagnosed with HIV in 1991, Johnson has kept the disease in check while becoming a successful businessman. His efforts to develop impoverished communities and improve the lives of young people have only enhanced his universal appeal. Read about his remarkable life as an athlete, his contributions, his legacy, and his influence on later generations in Magic Johnson: Athlete.

 

This book is part of a book series called Black Americans Of Achievement .

There are 110 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Chelsea House Publishers .

Thomas Lockhaven was honing his craft by moonlighting as an advertising consultant writing spots for print, Internet and TV. In his spare time, he was working on a children's detective series. Thomas met Grace Lockhaven at a gym. They became inseparable and now are working together writing books for fiction and nonfiction. Grace Lockhaven studied finance and had been working at corporate offices for assisted living companies. She met Thomas Lockhaven at the gym. They discussed about book ideas and decided to team up. Their first published book is Quest Chasers - The Deadly Cavern. David Aretha is a multi-award-winning publishing industry veteran who has worked with global giants like HarperCollins and Random House. The Detroit native who graduated in Journalism from the University of Michigan has successfully accumulated several decades of experience in his chosen specialist genres of Children's Stories, Biographies, History, Sports, and Fiction. In 2000, he was honored by the Vice-President of the United States with a letter of commendation for his exceptional editing work on "The Holocaust Chronicle: A History on Words and Pictures. "