There’s a new Jerry West biography coming out this week called “Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon.” While the book is about West, the passage that is sure to attract the most media attention is this juicy tidbit about Magic Johnson in the final chapter:
“That November, as a new season was set to open, Magic Johnson announced to the world that he was HIV positive, a stunning event that brought revelations about the climate of sexual frivolity around the Lakers. Johnson admitted he had been sleeping with 300-500 people a year. The team’s locker room, and its sauna, had been a place where the star and other players had entertained women, even right after games. Johnson would retire to the sauna after a game, have sex, then put on a robe and return to the locker room for his post-game media interviews. How far had the team gone in condoning such questionable behavior? ‘I cared,’ West said in his interviews for this book. ‘I did things for those guys. It was ridiculous, some of the things I did for those guys. If the public knew they’d be outraged. It was a pretty crazy period for us.’”
I bolded that one sentence for emphasis. 300 to 500 people a year! And am I reading too much into this when I notice that the word “people” is used instead of “women”? We’ve all heard the rumours, right? Anyway, it seems to me that Jeff Pearlman needs to get started writing the definitive unauthorized Magic Johnson biography, pronto.
Source: http://blogs.thescore.com/nba/2010/02/2 ... y-johnson/
Thanks Scott for that mind boggling statement lol...man, thats more than 1 woman or "person" every night.
