Just another night of Magic Johnson being a legend. The icon of LA sports headlined the 11th Annual Dodgers All-Access on August 28. And though LA’s got to share the mega-watt smiling team boss with Washington (Commanders and Spirit) now. Earvin “Magic” Johnson remains a huge part of the culture here. He talked Dodgers, Lakers, Sparks, even the Padres and Detroit Tigers. But the memory he’s going to carry for a lifetime was owed to his youngest fan.

Johnson had the stage and a rapt audience for 30 minutes. A minute of that was taken by a man in the audience. “ My four-year-old grandson just called me to say that… to tell you, that he wants to grow up to be like you,” this duty-bound grandfather said and left Magic speechless. All he could say at that time was, “ Man!”

The 5x NBA champ

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