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■ (AP) — Pitchers Bobby Howry, Steve Reed
lid John Thomson moved Wednesday as playoff
Rntenders tinkered with their rosters before the
non-waiver trading deadline.
I There were a half-dozen trades — outfield
ers Jay Payton, Todd Hollandsworth and Alex
Ichoa were involved — but none of them
■ere blockbusters.
I “It doesn’t seem like many deals were done
tpday,” Tigers president Dave Dombrowski
said. “I think it’s because a lot
of deals, with some big
names, have already been
made. Clubs didn’t wait for
the deadline to make moves.”
The big deals, and there
were plenty, came before the
4 p.m. EDT cutoff. Cliff
Floyd was traded twice, even
tually ending up with Boston
on Tuesday night, and Scott
Rolen, Raul Mondesi, Jeff Weaver, Steve
Finley, Kenny Lofton, Ray Durham and Ryan
Dempster also moved in July.
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1 Teams can still make trades this season, but
now players have to pass through waivers before
they can be shipped.
A day after getting Floyd from Montreal, the
Jted Sox bolstered their bullpen by getting
Jowry from the Chicago White Sox for a pair of
ninor league pitchers.
right-handed Howry is 2-2 with a 3.91
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“I’m going to a contending team,” he said.
1 1 That’s why you play, not only because you love
rasri ^gamC' hut it’s about winning.”
** The Red Sox are chasing the New York
Yankees in the AL East, but are in the thick of the
wild card race.
“We’re much better. How much? I don’t
know. I’ll let you know in about a month,” said
Boston manager Grady Little. “Nothing can be
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VERNON BRYANT* DALLAS MORNING NEWS/KRT CAMPUS
Former NBA all-star Magic Johnson is planning on developing shopping centers and malls in urban areas.
Magic still building
empire in cities
By Richard Aim
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS/
KRT CAMPUS
DALLAS — Earvin "Magic" Johnson's trans
formation is complete.
The former National Basketball Association
superstar, an 1 1-time All-Star in a dozen years
with the Los Angeles Lakers, now considers his
game to be business, first and foremost.
“That's all I’ve been (doing) for the last 10
years now, building my companies,” Johnson said.
Johnson came to Dallas one day last week for
the grand opening of the first 24 Hour Fitness
Magic Johnson Sport Club. The fitness center is
the first in Texas and fourth overall to come out
of his 2-year-old partnership with California-
based 24 Hour Fitness USA Inc. Another club
will open in South Arlington, Texas, in
September.
Over the last decade, he's put together a busi
ness empire, with an emphasis on investing in
cities and minority neighborhoods. Johnson owns
three banks, a share in the Lakers and 34 Starbucks
coffee shops with 19 more on the way.
Magic Johnson Theatres are open in Houston,
Cleveland, Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles.
He owns TGI Friday's restaurants in Los Angeles
and Atlanta. He also recently bought the Fatburger
hamburger chain, with 35 outlets in Southern
California, 10 in Las Vegas and two in Seattle.
The company plans to add 100 locations in the
next five years.
His latest venture involves raising $200 million,
largely from teachers' pension funds, to buy and
build shopping centers and malls in urban areas.
After purchases in Milwaukee and Cleveland, he
recently unveiled plans to build a 300-unit loft and
condominium project in Los Angeles, with retail
shops on the ground floor.
In an interview, Johnson discussed his career
after basketball. Here are some excerpts:
Q: When so many ex-jocks go into coaching,
broadcasting and other endeavors, why have you
chosen to become an entrepreneur?
A: I’ve always wanted to be a businessman,
always. I idolized two African-American business
men back in Michigan. They owned apartment
buildings. They owned office buildings. I worked
for them as a kid.T always wanted to get into busi
ness because of that.
I was setting myself up for it while I was
playing. I owned a Pepsi distributorship. I was
the first player ever to have a (merchandise)
license with the NBA. I’ve since sold both of
those, and I'm into what I'm into now. The key
was to take my ego out of it. I had to go back to
school in a sense. I had to seek a lot of great
business people.
Q: How much of your success derives from the
Magic Johnson name, your celebrity?
A: Really, that plays a small part in it because
people want to know that you can do a deal.
You’ve got to have capital. I’m a full-fledge part
ner — we put up 50 (percent), they put up 50. I
make suggestions. ... I met with 24 Hour Fitness,
we had to brighten it up. Minorities like bright
colors. Where everything went, I was involved in
all those things. Just like Starbucks and every
thing else. I know the minority market, and they
didn’t, so I had to teach them and show them
how they had to do business in our community.
Q: So your focus is bringing investment and
jobs to inner city neighborhoods often shunned by
other businesses?
A: The good thing about it is I’m doing it. We
started off with three Starbucks, and now we have
34. And the reason we have 34 is that all of them
are making money. Right now, if you look at the
suburbs around America, they’re all built out. I
don’t know how many more malls or how many
more buildings that you can build. But if you look
at the urban communities around the country,
that’s where it’s all swinging to.
You have an audience that has $600 billion
spending power. You have basically no competi
tion. The dirt is cheaper, so your rent is going to be
lower. All you have to do is just learn how to do
business in our community. That’s where I, as a
partner, take over. I’ve shown my partners how to
do business in urban America. I
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