From: c1h3384@rigel.tamu.edu 
Subject: Re: What is the reason behind Magic's re-retirement?
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 05:12:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.210102.100758@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, 
ism1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (IAN SETH MILLER) writes...
>In article <2NOV199219445783@rigel.tamu.edu>, c1h3384@rigel.tamu.edu writes:
>>Magic off and on, then on and off. Too bad. When I questioned his motivation
>>for the comeback and expressed safety concerns of the rest of the NBA players,
>>I was called an idiot. Well, that is exactly the reason openly cited
>>by Magic, at least according to the news report.
>>
>The concern you expressed for the other players is possibly legitimate, but
>you realize tha Magic would not have come back in the first place if the
>doctors did not think there was practically no possibility of passing the
>disease through play.  By honoring the concerns of his N.B.A associates Magic
>is being honerable by acknoledging those who felt uncomfortable.

	Oh, really? The fact that there are possibilites of passing the
        virus through professional sports, albeit small, is well known 
        for a long time. Saying that Magic did not know the concern when
        he pretended to come back is a joke. 
> 
> 
>>However, that is not the issue of this post. I am curious to know the
>>*REAL* reason behind this re-retirment comedy. Is that because his health
>>becomes worse after the five preseason games he had played? Or because
>>he got the guaranttee of the money for next season, something in the figure of
>>14M or so? I do not think the concern of other NBA players bothers Magic a
>>bit, otherwise he would not have come back, since those conerns have been
>>expressed ever since he annouced that he has the HIV.
>>
>For this paragraph, you should legitimately be called much worse than an
>idiot.  I suppose you would find his retirement more of a "comedy" if it were
>discovered that he contracted AIDS.  Jerry Buss gave Magic the 14 million
>probably assuming Magic would not play three years from now and gave him the
>contract for all he's done for the Lakers and the city of L.A.
> 
> 
	Well, an idiot or not, the whole thing is a comedy, is not it?
	How often do you see a man to eat his own word as easily as magic?

> 
>>Being a *man*, you have to live in your own word. If the Magic man is forced
>>to retire again, by some invisible pressures other than the health problem,
>>how does this affect his own spirit in fighting against the fatal virus?
>>
> 
>Hopefully, it won't especially if he doesn't listen to people like yourself.
> 
>>Bob
>>(may again be called an idiot, but who cares? I just do not like those
>> players you can not trust. After all this, how can I believe that Magic
>> is not bi-sexual? Maybe Isiah is telling the truth, who knows?)
>>
>The issue of Magic's sexuality is irrelevant.  Isiah Thomas wants nothing to
>do with this statement and if you say "who knows" than why bring it up.  Being
>an idiot probably does not even fit you.


	Irrelevant? I do not think so. Being an public figure, or a role
        model, as you call him, people have the rights to know the truth
	as how he contracted the virus? 

Bob       
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