Los Angeles Lakers

With the NBA season starting up again, I think it'll be good to talk about the Los Angeles Lakers. It's a largely known team. I mean personally I was never really too into basketball or any sports until recently, but even I knew about the Lakers and two of the current players, the shooting guard and the guard and one of the retired players. The 2014-2015 season, the Lakers aren't off to a great start and are 0-4 as of Sunday November 2. The Lakers' next game is on Tuesday against the Phoenix Suns (current record: 2-1), which is home for the Lakers at the Los Angeles Staples Center.

The Laker's shooting guard is Kobe Bryant, is one of the most well known NBA players along with Magic Johnson, Lebron James, Michael Jordan, and Kevin Durant just to name a few. Kobe is number 24 and even has his own website. On his website is an online store where you can purchase clothing that includes socks, shoes, shirts and shorts that must have been customized by Kobe himself. I don't know if it's just me personally but I've always heard the name either a trick that he has done or someone doing something impressive and another person being like "Okay, Kobe."

The next person I personally know a little about is Jeremy Lin who is currently the guard for the Lakers. When I visited the Philippines in 2012, I watched a documentary about him on the plane ride back to Los Angeles and that's what really got me liking the Lakers (and of course Jeremy Lin). Before watching the documentary I knew a little about him because I had seen some pictures of him and thought he was cute and so when I saw his name while looking through the movie selections I got way too excited and I watched it. I learned that he was actually born and raised in California, and is religious. I feel like a majority of celebrities either aren't open christians or aren't religious, but it seems like he is proud to be one. After watching the documentary it made me have mad respect for the basketball player.

One of the retired players that I know about is Magic Johnson. Last year in Health Class we watched a documentary about him. It talked a little about his life and basketball but focused more on him having HIV/AIDS. Magic lived in the time period of having a lot of unprotected sex which caused him to get HIV. It was major in essence that he was in the NBA and he had the disease because at that time they didn't know what caused it and how it spread so the coaches and the NBA were quite skeptical about putting him in the game. However as time progressed and the doctors/ scientist found more out about the disease he was able to play more but everyone still were very cautious. He is still alive today and lives with the disease and actually created his own organization (Magic Johnson Enterprises).