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Staff Photo by Tim Barber
Earvin "Magic" Johnson talks about looking up to Kareem Abdul-Jabar when he was a rookie during a talk to students at Normal Park Upper School on Thursday.
School assembly today at Normal Park was anything but normal.
It was magic.
NBA legend, businessman and philanthropist Earvin “Magic” Johnson, stopped by the magnet school’s Upper School to talk with the middle schoolers about staying in school and being successful.
The former L.A. Lakers star encouraged students to be involved in school, and to not let their circumstances get in the way of their life goals.
“I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams. I always wanted to be in the NBA and I wanted to be a businessman,” he said. “I saw those kids who were doing drugs and smoking cigarettes, but I went the other way.”
For complete details, see tomorrow’s Times Free Press.
Kelli Gauthier covers K-12 education in Hamilton County for the Times Free Press. She started at the paper as an intern in 2006, crisscrossing the region writing feature stories from Pikeville, Tenn., to Lafayette, Ga. She also covered crime and courts before taking over the education beat in 2007. A native of Frederick, Md., Kelli came south to attend Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in print journalism. Before newspapers, ...
Magic at Magical school. Normal Park Upper
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