Magic Johnson signed Mitchell & Ness Jersey

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You are bidding on an autographed Lakers jersey. This is an authentic Mitchell and Ness size 48 jersey from the Lakers 1979-1980 championship year. It has been signed by NBA legend and Hall of Famer Earvin Magic Johnson. It comes with the Tri Star seal sticker and seriel number 0158816. The numbers and letters are sewn on this beautiful jersey. Winner preShipping is free!Johnson is considered one of the most successful players in the history of the game. In 905 NBA games, he scored 17,707 points, 6,559 rebounds and 10,141 assists, translating to career averages of 19.5 points, 7.2 rebounds and 11.2 assists per game. [19 ] Johnson shares the single-game playoff record for assists (24), [89 ] holds the Finals record for assists in a game (21), [89 ] and has the most playoff assists (2,346). [90 ] He holds the All-Star Game single-game record for assists (22), and the All-Star Game record for career assists (127). [89 ] Johnson introduced a fast-paced style of basketball that became known as "Showtime", described as a mix of "no-look passes off the fastbreak, pin-point alley-oops from halfcourt, spinning feeds and overhand bullets under the basket through triple teams ." [4 ] Fellow Lakers guard Michael Cooper stated that: "T have been times when he [Johnson] has thrown passes and I wasn't sure w he was going. Then one of our guys catches the ball and scores, and I run back up the floor convinced that he must've thrown it through somebody." [4 ][ 11 ] Johnson was also unique because he played point guard despite being 6âe"9, a size reserved normally for frontcourt players. [4 ] Johnson combined the size of a power forward, the one-on-one skills of a swingman and the ball handling talent of a guard, making him one of the most dangerous triple-double threats of all time; his 138 triple-double-games are second only to Oscar Robertson 's 181. [91 ]For his feats, Johnson was voted as one of the 50 Greatest Players of All Time by the NBA in 1996, [92 ] and he was introduced into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. [93 ] In 2006, ESPN .com rated Johnson the greatest point guard of all time, and stated: "It could be argued that he's the one player in NBA history who was better than Michael Jordan." [3 ] Several of his achievements in individual games have also been named one of the top moments in the NBA. [27 ][ 94 ][ 95 ] [ edit ] Rivalry with Larry Bird Ever since the 1979 NCAA Finals, in which Johnson's Michigan State squad defeated Larry Bird's Indiana State team, Johnson and Bird were linked as rivals. From 1980 to 1988, their respective Lakers and Celtics teams won eight of nine NBA titles. The rivalry reached its climax in the mid-'80s, when their teams met in three NBA Finals (1984, 1985, 1987). Johnson appreciated the rivalry greatly, asserting that for him, the 82 game regular season was composed of 80 normal games and "the two", i.e. the Lakers-Celtics games. Similarly, Bird admitted that Johnson's box score was the first thing he looked at after every game day, stating everything else was unimportant. [75 ]Several journalists hypothesised that the Johnson-Bird rivalry was so appealing because it represented many other rivalries, such as the clash between Lakers and Celtics, between Hollywood flash ("Showtime") and Boston/Indiana blue collar grit ("Celtic Pride"), and between blacks and whites. [96 ][ 97 ] Apart from the on-court differences, the rivalry proved significant because it drew national attention to the faltering NBA. Prior to Johnson and Bird, the league had gone through a decade of declining interest and low TV ratings. [98 ] With the two Hall-of-Famers, the league won a whole generation of new fans, [99 ] drawing both traditionalist adnts of Bird's dirt court Indiana game and those appreciative of Johnson's public park flair. Sports journalist Larry Schwartz of ESPN even went as far as to assert that Johnson and Bird saved the NBA from bankruptcy. [11 ]Despite their on-court rivalry Johnson and Bird became... read more

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