Larry King Live (CNN) - 1996-03-04 (Magic Johnson)

Name: Larry King Live (CNN) - 1996-03-04 (Magic Johnson)
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[0:05] is junior primary night and our special

[0:08] analyst come up with a pretty good one.

[0:10] Senator Barry Goldwater will be with us

[0:12] tomorrow night and on Wednesday night

[0:14] Mika El Gorbachov we're trying to figure

[0:16] out what to do Thursday. Now we welcome

[0:18] Irvin Magic Johnson to Larry King live

[0:21] first on the the announcement today that

[0:23] you didn't want to play on the is you

[0:25] want to give someone else a shot?

[0:26] >> Yeah. Yeah. Let the younger players

[0:28] play. You know, I think that I've had my

[0:30] opportunity. I also had to look at my my

[0:33] family, Larry, because it was important

[0:35] for me to spend time with them,

[0:37] especially since I I decided to come

[0:39] back next season. So, if I had to play,

[0:42] you're talking about six or eight weeks

[0:43] spending uh on the Olympic uh practicing

[0:47] or playing games. And then normally we

[0:49] spend three to four weeks in Hawaii and

[0:51] then I take Cookie again to Europe two

[0:54] weeks out of the summer as well. So

[0:56] >> then Atlanta and then So none of that

[0:58] could have happened.

[0:59] >> You would have had you not played on the

[1:01] first one, right?

[1:02] >> Oh yeah. No question about it. But the

[1:04] first one was so special. I mean when

[1:06] you talking about all the greatest

[1:08] players, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan,

[1:10] Barkley Pippen, the whole squad.

[1:12] >> You each get a gold medal, right?

[1:13] >> Exactly. Exactly. And what a what a

[1:16] time. I mean, we had the best time. I

[1:19] mean, we Yes. We blew everybody out.

[1:22] [laughter] We were

[1:23] >> some little fright but not much.

[1:26] >> Exactly. But it was the the camaraderie,

[1:28] the friendship.

[1:29] >> People in Barcelona loved