At what age did Magic Johnson retire?

Magic Johnson officially retired from professional basketball on November 7, 1991, at the age of 32 after playing 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

However, he returned to play in the 1992 All-Star Game, winning the All-Star MVP Award. After protests from his fellow players, he retired again for four years, but returned in 1996, at age 36, to play 32 games for the Lakers before retiring for the third and final time.

Magic Johnson has been an advocate for HIV/AIDS prevention and safe sex since his retirement, as well as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, broadcaster, and motivational speaker.

Magic Johnson was named one of America’s most influential black businessmen by Ebony magazine in 2009, and he was a part-owner of the Lakers for several years before becoming the team’s president of basketball operations from 2017 to 2019.

He was also a member of the investment group that bought the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2012 and the Los Angeles Sparks in 2014 and was a member of the ownership group that founded Los Angeles F.C. (LAFC) of Major League Soccer (MLS) in 2017.

Magic Johnson’s career accomplishments include three NBA MVP Awards, three NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Awards, nine NBA Finals appearances, 12 All-Star games, and nine All-NBA First Team selections. He led the league in regular-season assists four times and is the NBA’s all-time leader in average assists per game in both the regular season (11.19 assists per game) and the playoffs (12.35 assists per game).