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Title: Magic Johnson goes to score during Western Conference Semifinals
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated April 29, 1982 reads, "Magic did it all last night at the Forum, including setting injured. However he rebounded from a momentary but scary knee problem." Here Dennis Johnson (right) of the Phoenix Suns tries to prevent Magic Johnson from scoring during the second of four Western Conference Semifinal games between the Lakers and the Suns. The Lakers won the semifinal games and went on to both the Western Conference Finals and NBA Finals, ultimately winning the 1981-1982 season championship title.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;35 x 23 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084557
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Johnson, Earvin - "Magic Johnson"
CARL0002886929
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26113
Subject: Johnson, Earvin,--1959-
Johnson, Dennis Wayne
Los Angeles Lakers (Basketball team)
Phoenix Suns (Basketball team)
Forum (Inglewood, Calif.)
Basketball players--United States
Inglewood (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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