“Toughest thing I had to deal with other than when my parents died” - Larry Bird on finding out about Magic Johnson’s HIV diagnosis

Many credit the Bird-Magic rivalry in the 80s as the league’s lifesaver in a very critical time. The Association was dying a slow death in the 70s, but the arrival of Johnson from Michigan State and ...

Magic Johnson on the hardest moment of his HIV diagnosis: "I had to do was to drive home and tell Cookie"

On November 7, 1991, Magic Johnson shocked the whole world by announcing his immediate retirement due to an HIV diagnosis. At ...