Honors
- Elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (1986)
- All-NBA First Team (1969, 1970, 1971)
- ABA All Star, First Team (1973)
- All-NBA Second Team (1972)
- Four-time NBA All-Star
- Elected to the ABA's All-Time Team
- One of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History (1996)
- His number 32 jersey is retired by the Philadelphia 76ers; however, he reactivated it for Charles Barkley to wear for the 1991–92 NBA season. Barkley normally wore the number 34, but switched to 32 in honor of Magic Johnson, who had announced at the start of the season that he was HIV-positive.
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