Johnson -- the wife of Magic Johnson, the former Michigan State and Los Angeles Lakers basketball star -- is opening up about her husband's HIV diagnosis and how the couple supported each other during his post-NBA life this week with her book, "Believing in Magic," hitting store shelves. “It was the scariest thing I had ever faced,” Cookie Johnson told For The Win in a story published today. Magic Johnson, a Lansing native and former Lansing Everett standout, publicly announced his abrupt retirement from the NBA and HIV diagnosis on Nov. 7, 1991, a moment that sent waves across the nation and changed the perception of HIV and AIDS, both of which had been associated with homosexuals and drug addicts at the time. ...
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