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Is Magic Johnson one of the dumbest, most successful people of all time?

Posted on 5/21/19 at 1:37 am
Posted by TaTa Toothy
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 1:37 am
Is one of the worst gm's of all time and hosted the worst late night talk show of all time. Yet he heeded good business advice from his agents and invested in starbucks and theaters in the hood. Defeated Aids and his son is a pre op tranny. The man refuses to lose. cookie approves.
Posted by BillyBobfan24_7
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 1:39 am to
What is this?
Posted by Ryan3232
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 1:42 am to
Who cares about what he did as a business man. Michael Jordan was unsuccessful as a leader for the Bobcats, but why should we complain about that. MJ and MJ both get a pass. I also say that because they werent the head of my franchise and I enjoyed them as basketball players.
Posted by Bench McElroy
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 1:42 am to
Three words: Donald John Trump.
Posted by saint tiger225
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 1:48 am to
No one ever said you had to be smart to play ball and be successful at it.
Posted by Walt OReilly
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 2:18 am to
Dudes a scumbag

Great player. Trash human being
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 2:30 am to
He was never a GM though...
Posted by Mr Perfect
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 10:32 am to
yup
Posted by Dr RC
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 10:33 am to
He wasn't the Lakers GM.
Posted by Goldrush25
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 10:36 am to
quote:

Is Magic Johnson one of the dumbest, most successful people of all time?


You jealous or something?

There's obviously *some* kind of intelligence there to surround yourself around the right people.
Posted by 21JumpStreet
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 10:37 am to
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses baw
Posted by LSUFanHouston
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 10:48 am to
Magic was a great NBA player.

Magic has surrounded himself with some smart business people, which is more than can be said for most great NBA players.

Everything Magic has personally done has been crap, because he's a great NBA player, without skills that can be transferred to another career.
Posted by 91TIGER
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 10:49 am to
Magic "The Chicago Bull" Johnson
Posted by TnMountaineer
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 10:54 am to
Chevy Chase or Pat Sajak had worse talk shows.
Posted by wilceaux
Austin, TX
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 11:15 am to
You shouldn't really correlate business success with intelligence. It doesn't work that way.
Posted by Ralph_Wiggum
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 11:17 am to
As a coach and NBA executive of some kind he hasn't been very good at all. Bit in business he's made some smart moves and yes surrounded himself with good people which takes some intelligence.

He has worked at some type of business besides basketball his entire life. He used to help with his dad's own business hauling junk and stuff and Magic started working as a teenager at a local convenience store in Lansing before he made it big at MSU.

Magic has had a knack for business especially in retail services and shops.
Posted by LSUGrad9295
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 11:23 am to
Magic is one of the most successful people ever who has an AIDS dick....
Posted by Rep520
Member since Mar 2018
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 11:26 am to
He was arguably the highest basketball IQ ever and has built a personal net worth of 600 million.

He's never going to come off as a polished intellectual, but he obviously knows what he's doing in some areas of life. He's achieved extraordinary success in basketball and business.

He's like Jordan, who also has done poorly as a front office guy. Neither is necessarily a rocket scientist, but they understood basketball and took that money and made solid business decisions with it.

Before you criticize Magic's business acumen, think of how many athletes invest in dumb **** and go broke.
Posted by Splackavellie
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 11:39 am to
Posted by rsbd
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 2:02 pm to
He has learned the secret to life, in 2019 when shite goes south no one blames the Blackman..
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