20 celebrities you didn’t know contracted HIV (With Pics)

7. Magic Johnson

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Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson is considered by many to be one of the greatest NBA players of all time. He won numerous championships for the Los Angeles Lakers during the 1980s, but in 1991 revealed that he had been diagnosed as having HIV. Due to the close competitive skin-to-skin contact players in the NBA endure, and the potential for open wounds as a result of impacts and other infractions, the NBA re-evaluated their procedures to ensure that anyone injured and with an open wound needs to have it treated immediately.