Multi-millionaire Magic Johnson was once a janitor. Yes, it’s true.
Magic, who now owns part of the Los Angeles Dodgers was, unsurprisingly, a hard-working, aspirational young man growing up in Michigan. At the age of 10, he started a lawn-cutting business with his own mower. At 15, he was a stock boy at Quality Dairy. And, in junior high...he cleaned bathrooms.
We gave Magic, a rising businessman, the Sports Illustrated cover on Dec. 3, 1990. Inside, Richard Hoffer profiled the Lakers legend, and the big dreams he had growing up. That have way to this tidbit about Johnson taking a break from all that cleaning and pretending he was a CEO.