Back when Jabbar retired, Magic accused him of being selfish in the playoffs because he always wanted to win the Finals MVP awards. Jabbar wrote in his autobiography that the only reason Lakers lost to the Celtics is because Magic was scared to defend Dennis Johnson and Larry Bird in the 4th quarters for fear of fouling out.
Magic felt the league was unfairly biased towards the new era of high-flying Air Jordan, McDonald's, Nike, and TV corporate sponsorships. When the Lakers lost the title to the Bulls he secretly threatened to write his own book and drop the ultimate bombshell on the Lakers, Jabbar, and the NBA in revenge --
Jack Nicholson and Jerry Buss were buddies back in the late 1970's, when the mafia put a pressure on Buss for money owed, Nicholson stepped in on his behalf and vowed he would make sure Buss paid the mob back what was owed on condition that they made him the big capo on all sports bookies in Los Angeles. When random bookie tried to extort the Dodgers, Rams, Trojans, Bruins, and Lakers with drugs and women, Nicholson now had the blessing to handle mob affairs, which was a major power trip for him.
Pat Riley was then hired to expertly coach the Showtime game plan, in order to maintain the halftime point spread to Vegas' favor. This is why the Mavs owner complained when the Heat, coached by Pat Riley, magically won their 1st title with a wide foul and free throw advantage.
The Mavs owner hired private ex-CIA investigators to follow every NBA referee from that next season up until they finally won the title recently.
Jabbar held rumors that Johnson was "very friendly" with his Laker teammate AC Green, a self described adult virgin and devout christian, who still holds the record for consecutive games played, and 99% of his games played through his career. So if he was that abnormally healthy how could Magic be declared terminally ill?
In order to keep Magic silenced they forced him to announce himself HIV, which was then regarded as a disease for needle junkies and gay men. Magic retired, and when the Lakers rights of refusal finally expired, he tried to take a secret physical to play for the Magic with Shaq and Penny, the new viral blood test existed that would have revealed there was no HIV present in his system and exposed the hoax by the Lakers.
