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The Magic Johnson foundation first hosted its Holiday Hope event in Michigan in 2014. They visited Detroit, Lansing and Flint every year until 2017, according to Shane Jenkins, director of community relations for the Magic Johnson Foundation. They brought back the event this year to help families struggling as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moments from Johnson’s glory days are interspersed throughout “They Call Me Magic.” Some of the archival material — such as the coin flip that gave the Lakers the first pick in the 1979 NBA draft (over the Chicago Bulls); they chose a 19-year-old college student from Lansing, Mich., named Earvin “Magic” Johnson — he’d never seen before. And he never would have had he not agreed to be interviewed for Michael Jordan’s docuseries “The Last Dance.”
Earvin "Magic" Johnson is hitting the campaign trail for Joe Biden, heading to two stops in a swing state to support the Democratic presidential nominee's White House bid. The former Los Angeles Lakers star player, who played for Michigan State before entering the NBA, will travel to Detroit and Lansing for a pair of weekend events, Biden's campaign announced Friday.
The 517 in the album title is a nod to Lansing’s area code and the influence his hometown, family and childhood friends he’s still close to have had on him. Valentine recorded between two to three times a week this summer and finished the entire 11-track album from the studio in his apartment. Whenever he finished a song, Valentine would send it to the group of friends from his childhood. They are the same guys whose names he drops on his single, ‘‘Get Ya Grind Up’’: Jalin [Thomas], Moses [Morgan], Gary [Harris], Sapp [Anthony Clemmons], Bryn [Forbes], Howie [Jordan Howenstine], Mike [Stepter], and, of course, his big brother.
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A Lansing mom fears fame and fortune will ruin her chance to gain custody of her two young sons. Their father is Bryn Forbes, a rising NBA player with the San Antonio Spurs and a former Sexton High School and Michigan State University basketball player. Forbes, 24, has gained attention as an undrafted free agent who recently moved up as a key player with the Spurs. The never-married pair are locked in a tense fight before Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Janelle Lawless. The court must decide whether the boys will stay in Texas with their father or come back to Michigan where their mother, Raelynn Taylor, 25, lives.
A request for waiver of arraignment filed by Draymond Green's attorney has been approved by East Lansing District Court Judge Andrea Andrews Larkin, according to court records filed Tuesday. The request -- filed by James Heos, a Lansing-based attorney -- means Green will not have to appear in an East Lansing court to be arraigned on an assault charge. The charge stems from a Sunday morning incident outside a downtown East Lansing restaurant. Green, a former Michigan State standout and current member of the Golden State Warriors, is alleged to have struck another man.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson said he owes his success on the basketball court and in the world of business to his Lansing upbringing. So the former NBA star called on a few friends and reached into his own pocket to help Lansing children go to college and achieve their dreams. "Lansing was the greatest place in the world to grow up," Johnson told about 1,000 people at a fundraising dinner hosted by the Lansing Regional Chamber Economic Club on Thursday night. "Everything I am came from Lansing, Michigan. Everything I will be came from Lansing, Michigan."
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