Year 7 English Enrico's Blog

In Friday I read a book about Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. The 2 greatest players in the world. I read about how they started their rivalry at college and became best of friends when they retired. The point of the book was the greatest rivalry in NBA history, which began in college. Larry and Magic were competing for the NCAA championship, Michigan state which was Magic's team won the championship in finals against Larry bird which made their rivalry carry on to the NBA.

Magic was drafted the number 1 pick by the Los Angeles Lakers and on his rookie year Magic helped Lakers to win an NBA championship. While Bird was busy with the Celtics he always checks on Magic's stats sheet and same with Johnson. But after a while bird thought to himself, Magic already has 4 titles and he didnt have any and said "I've got to get one of those".

Bird quickly carried his team to the NBA finals and their rivalry heated up. Magic fought Bird a lot fo time for an NBA title and one day they got a call to do a commercial together. Magic and Bird shot a Converse advertisement and from that day began their friendship.

After years of intense rivalry something happened. Magic was flying in his airplane to a game when he got called and was told to come back to get checked. When he arrived he was tested and proven he was HIV positive. He was planning on retirement and he quickly told his agent to tell Larry and his friend Arsenio Hall about this. Magic retired because of HIV.

I didn't finish the book but that's all I read...