Magic Johnson had sex with 300-500 people per year

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My biography, “Jerry West, The LIfe And Legend Of A Basketball Icon,” is due out this coming week from ESPN Books. It has received a lot of publicity recently because of a short section in the last chapter that deals with the Los Angeles Lakers organization learning in 1991 that Magic Johnson was HIV positive.

The passage from the book says: “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.’”

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