Business and Basketball: Advice from Earvin “Magic” Johnson

By Barney Beal, Content Director

NCAA champion, NBA champion, NBA Hall of Famer, businessman, co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers – Earvin “Magic” Johnson has seen success everywhere his career has taken him. He shared some of the secrets to his success, and occasional failures in an engaging and thought-provoking address at SuiteWorld18.

Magic’s basketball career helped set the stage for his success in business, he told attendees. After taking Everett High School in East Lansing, Mich. from a losing tradition to state champion, he went on to Michigan State and won a national championship over Larry Bird’s Indiana State team, still the most watched NCAA championship in history. From there it was on the NBA, more match ups with Bird and five NBA titles.