"The Magic Touch," Black Enterprise Magazine; May 1999. I felt the Magic Touch person-to-person, eyeball-to-eyeball, hand-to-hand; September 1996. IT WAS INCREDIBLE! A ninety minute meeting in Magic Johnson's Beverly Hills home, culminated with us shaking hands after agreeing in principle to doing a deal. THAT WAS A MAGICAL TOUCH!

Interestingly though, the past three and half years have only shown me, "How Earvin Johnson 'Isn't' Building A Business Empire." Black Enterprise's cover story did just what cover stories do. It covered what "America's Leading Urban Entrepreneur" is doing on the surface.

Now a year later, here's an EXCLUSIVE STORY of an "urban entrepreneur's" quest of doing a "slam dunk" deal with an "assist" from the NBA's All-time greatest playmaker.

I got "the call," while watching Monday Night Football...