Foster Kamer

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53 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 19 Feb

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · One-on-One: The Untold Story of the Game That Made Magic · 19 Feb 2026 podcast

My name is Jackie McMullin.

I'm a retired sports journalist.

But I think the reason we're speaking today is I wrote a book called When the Game Was Ours that chronicled the parallel lives of Larry Bird and Irvin Magic Johnson.

It was probably the worst day of my professional life because we were certain that Magic Johnson was going to die.

I mean, that's what they were saying, three years max, you know.

And work got out very quickly.

They held the press conference where you've just never seen Magic look that way.

So it was a very, very shocking announcement.

Of course, I was based in Boston at that time.

I remember going to Larry Bird's locker.

to talk to him about it.

And of course, they were so intertwined throughout their careers, it was just inevitable that that would happen.

And I remember the look on Larry's face.

He just, he told me afterwards, they had a game, I think it was a day later, and they were going to play Atlanta.

And he told me many years later, it was the first time in his life he didn't feel like playing basketball.

He just, it just didn't seem important anymore.

I always say this, I think the most underrated moment of Commissioner David Stern's career was this moment, Pablo.

Because the minute he learned of this diagnosis, he did what David Stern always did.

He learned more about it than anybody else.

And when Irvin called him and said, what if I play in the All-Star game?

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