1 / 6

My Favorite Role Model Researched via: wikipedia

My Favorite Role Model Researched via: http://wikipedia.org. Student Name: Chante’ Solomon Date: 6-9-09. Who is your Favorite Athlete?.

benita
Download Presentation

My Favorite Role Model Researched via: wikipedia

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. My Favorite Role Model Researched via: http://wikipedia.org Student Name: Chante’ Solomon Date: 6-9-09

  2. Who is your Favorite Athlete? • Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is a retired American professional basketball player who was a point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). • After winning championships in high school and college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA Draft by the Lakers

  3. List major accomplishments of Your Favorite Role Model: • He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his rookie season, and won four more championships with the Lakers during the 1980s. • three NBA MVP Awards, nine NBA Finals appearances, twelve All-Star games, and ten All-NBA First and Second Team nominations. He led the league in regular-season assists four times, and is the NBA's all-time leader in assists per game with an average of 11.2. Johnson was also a member of the "Dream Team", the U.S. basketball team that won the Olympic gold medal in 1992. • Johnson was honored as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996, and enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. He was rated the greatest NBA point guard of all time by ESPN in 2007

  4. What can we learn from the experience of Your Favorite Role Model? • Try your hardest at everything you do • Don’t ever give up • Make the best out of a bad situation

  5. List interests of Your Favorite Role Model: • Johnson has been an advocate for HIV/AIDS prevention and safe sex, as well as a philanthropist and motivational speaker. • In 1992, he joined the National Commission on AIDS • He was the main speaker for the United Nations (UN) World AIDS Day Conference in 1999, and has served as a United Nations Messenger of Peace.

  6. Family background of Your favorite role model? • Earvin Johnson Jr. was the sixth of ten children born to Earvin Sr., a General Motors assembly worker, and Christine, a school custodian. Johnson grew up in Lansing, Michigan, and came to love basketball as a youngster, idolizing players such as Earl Monroe and Marques Haynes, and practicing "all day". • Johnson was first dubbed "Magic" as a 15-year-old sophomore playing for Lansing's Everett High School, when he recorded a triple-double of 36 points, 18 rebounds and 16 assists. After the game, Fred Stabley Jr., a sports writer for the Lansing State Journal, gave him the moniker despite the belief of Johnson's mother, a Christian, that the name was sacrilegious. In his final high school season, Johnson led Lansing Everett to a 27–1 win–loss record while averaging 28.8 points and 16.8 rebounds per game,and took his team to an overtime victory in the state championship game.

More Related