On Thursday, Hall of Fame point guard and former Los Angeles Lakers president of basketball operations Magic Johnson took to Twitter to offer his well-wishes to Boston Celtics president and general manager Danny Ainge after it was reported Ainge suffered a mild heart attack Tuesday night, before the start of Game 2.
Magic was leading the Showtime Lakers and Ainge, who was a guard as well, was playing a key role on the Larry Bird-led Celtics in their youth, with the two playing against each other for seven-plus seasons from 1981-82 to 1990-91.
Magic and Ainge don’t have a particularly intimate friendship but they have a mutual respect for one another that stems from their days of playing against each other in the heated and historic Lakers-Celtics rivalry.
