When Magic Johnson abruptly quit his job as Lakers president of basketball operations, he specifically mentioned that he wanted to tweet about basketball again without all those pesky NBA anti-tampering restrictions. He wanted to have fun. He wanted be his best self on the internet.
On Thursday, Magic finally made his real return to Twitter after spending two weeks tweeting about speaking engagements. And, oh man, it was more than we could have ever hoped for.
We can’t emphasize this enough: Magic Johnson quit a powerful front-office job with the NBA’s most famous franchise to seriously tweet stuff like this …
Whoa. That’s huge, if true.
And there was more! Magic got into an in-depth preview of the Eastern Conference second-round matchups. Let’s take a look.
Insightful.
I can’t imagine that his responsibilities with the Lakers would have prevented him from tweeting that he was looking forward to watching the NFL draft and that the Eastern Conference has an evenly matched second round. But you also don’t want to take any chances.
Magic Johnson is free to tweet what he wants, and we’re totally here for all of it.
He did have one semi-interesting tweet, though. He said that the truth — likely about the Lakers situation — will always come to light.
The smiley emoji was an excellent touch.
We missed these tweets, Magic. Welcome back.
