legend
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Lakers legend Magic Johnson, a former part-owner of the team and past president of basketball operations, welcomed the deal in an X post.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Both of them love basketball,” Lakers legend Magic Johnson said in an interview with The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Rock ‘n’ roll legend John Oates has turned the page on a 35-year chapter of his life after selling the Colorado ranch he has owned for more than three decades for $6.9 million.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
The bear incident became something of campus legend in the months afterward.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
A work of unprecedented complexity for its time, it was carved by a remarkably gifted artist who makes us feel the visionary rapture of a bard as he sings his legend.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
Since 1979, the Lakers had been owned by the Buss family, which oversaw an era in which the team racked up championships and put all-time legends in purple and gold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Niewiadoma-Phinney, who is married to Taylor Phinney, son of U.S. cycling legends Davis Phinney and Connie Carpenter-Phinney, found herself under siege by Vollering’s team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Fans wrapped around the concourse and emptied the merchandise stand before the delayed first pitch and witnessed a torch passing between the league’s current players and past women’s baseball legends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
The childhood sports idols for my generation of cousins were Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela and boxing champ Julio César Chávez, not Mexican soccer legends Hugo Sánchez and Jorge Campos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
He was not yet forty, and already there were legends about him.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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Academy Awards, List 5
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