Magic Johnson and the Showtime era.

[MaNu4Tres]

Not Spurs related but pretty interesting.....



From Jason Whitlock's twitter...

http://blogs.thescore.com/nba/2010/02/22/magics-very-busy-johnson/

“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.’”

[Jason R]

300-500 people a year. That's... gross.

[Booharv]

Goddamn that's sleazy.

[blkroadrunners]

300-500 people a year. That's... gross.

Sadly, that's probably nothing compared to Chamberlain.

[DieMrBond]

Sadly, that's probably nothing compared to Chamberlain.

The article goes into that, and says some of the players on the team say thats a crock - because he spent many nights travelling and playing cards etc with the male staffers...

http://lakernoise.com/2010/02/the-lakers-sex-talk-needs-a-bit-of-context/


“Complete hyperbole. Trust me. I spent many a Saturday night where Wilt would call me and say, ‘Let’s go out and have dinner together.’ He was the worst guy I’ve ever seen trying to hustle women. I’m serious. That thing should be debunked. Trust me. I saw firsthand. Yes, he might have had his share of women, but as a slick hustler, please. No. I saw too many nights where he was alone. I was with him. There were nights he’d call me up. I was like his valet at times. I’m sure he had hookers come up to his room and stuff like that. He scored on some women, but as a regular Lothario? I know bartenders that scored way more than Wilt. Please. He was playing basketball. How could a real guy be a Lothario? What did he say, 20,000? It’s ridiculous. It’s farcical. Why would he even claim that?”


“I didn’t see that. That’s an exaggeration on Wilt’s part. That’s like one and a half to two people per day, every day. There are days you travel all day, days you play, days you spend time with your family. I do know some people who came close for maybe a year or a month, but you don’t do that for like 12 years, every year. Nobody does. If they do, they’ve got a problem. That’s beyond the realm of fun. That’s the realm of a nymphomaniac, the same for men as for women. If somebody does that, he has a sexual disorder. It just wasn’t that way. We did things, but not to that extent.”


“There’s married Laker players who had a lot more sex than Wilt did. I don’t want to go further than that. There was one, I won’t name him, who made Wilt look like an amateur.”

[lefty]

Not Spurs related but pretty interesting.....



From Jason Whitlock's twitter...

http://blogs.thescore.com/nba/2010/02/22/magics-very-busy-johnson/

“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.’”


How much Viagra do you think the Spurs would need to do that after a game ?

[HarlemHeat37]

How much Viagra do you think the Spurs would need to do that after a game ?

:rollin:rollin:rollin

[honestfool84]

“That was a big distraction for teams. You’re going out to L.A. and coaches worried about that. Not only is the weather warm, especially after the snow in Detroit and those other East Coast cities, you wonder if you’re going to have the guys there. But now you go in the game and you’re so hyped up to be into it and to play against Showtime, and you’re sitting over there looking at whoever may be walking by, and your head’s doing a little swivel. You know what? You’re not concentrating. You’re not into the game. You really had to have blinders on like those horses at the track across the street. As far as coaches, they really sweat it, playing the Lakers in that particular environment. Especially if you weren’t a very good team. That was just an automatic loss. If you didn’t have your team’s entire concentration for 48 minutes, you could get embarrassed out there.”

:lol