He is a part owner so it shouldn't be a surprise that he is around the team, but the fact that Magic Johnson was in Ashburn to visit the Washington Commanders to speak with the players and coaches ahead of Week 1 is still a wild thing to think about and something that was unfathomable to consider this time last year. And Team 980's Kevin Sheehan loves that one of the NBA's all-time great players was around the team.
"There are just certain people that just win, they are just winners in every thing they do," Sheehan said. "Magic Johnson was a winner in college, he was a winner at the pro level, he has been a winner in a massive way in business, he's been a winner as an owner."
Here's what quarterback Sam Howell had to say about meeting Magic:
"It was awesome, man, just to be able to hear what he had to say to ask him questions at the end to pick his brain," Howell said. "... Has an open door and is always willing to help us with any questions we have. Obviously, he's been through so many different teams and not only as a player but as an owner and won so many championships on both sides of it. He definitely knows what it takes."
Howell added that he asked the NBA legend about the difference between his championship teams and the teams that came up short: "He just talked about how they believed in each other. They. stood together as a team and they policed each other and always held each other accountable. There was definitely so much good information that he just gave our whole entire team."