When Magic came out of retirement with AIDS and went to practice with the Charlotte Hornets, I flew him on a charter into Charlotte. He went to the practice facility at the local gym inside the Fort Mill minor league baseball facility and invited us to come along. The guy flew like the wind and hung in the air like a rocket. He was quite the athelete at the time. I had remembered that when he first retired from the NBA he had said that he was physically effected and thus retiring. I saw him playing 150% above his game two years prior when he retired.
Nice guy. Tried very hard to be an ambassador to everyone. A little too salesman-like.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't directly criticizing Magic for being on roids. There is an extremely high corolation between muscle mass and health for Aids victums. However, for the roid treatment to work you had to have had very brave Doctors willing to write the scripts and to monitor the blood chemistry.