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Lakers legend Magic Johnson on campaign trail for health education and RSV awareness

Magic Johnson paced the basketball court at the Crenshaw Family YMCA on Tuesday, holding a microphone instead of a ball as the Lakers legend addressed the audience about the importance of maintaining good health.

Johnson had teamed up with pharmarceutical company GSK to talk about respiratory syncytial virus [RSV] at another of their “Sideline RSV” events.

He‘s a longtime advocate for health care and wanted to share with his community why it means so much to him.

“Dealing with HIV for 32 years, it’s important that I know everything about my health,” said Johnson, who announced to the world on Nov.