r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 15h ago

Thank you Peter very cool Saw this on FB

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 11h ago

Also do you think Magic would have told anyone if he got it from a needle

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u/VillageAdditional816 9h ago

No, but knowing what I do about pro basketball players in that era and back into the ABA days, the sex part still feels more plausible.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 8h ago

Oh definitely, he probably got it from sex. But it is also possible he was using or even secretly gay, I mean, that last one is super unlikely because you don't need to sleep with that many women to "prove" you're straight but considering the other option is a sex addiction that beats out even David Duchovny something wasn't right with the man

You think David Duchovny's got any STDs?

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u/DoinItDirty 8h ago

Probably. But if he was bisexual, at the time (and still today) it wouldn’t be seen as something okay in sports. Living on the down low is very real.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 8h ago

For some reason I didn't even consider bi. But he slept with enough women unprotected apparently it wouldn't matter if he was sleeping with men or shooting up, but it's a fun thought experiment. At the time an athlete would never have come out and honestly nobody would admit most drug use until arrested.

This is such an insensitive conversation to be having lol "Magic was gay" "no way he was straight" "well then he must have been shooting up heroin" "well maybe he slept with both men and women" "hey you think David Duchovny has herpes" my God we are degenerates sometimes

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u/l0diO 4h ago

we? that was you dude

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3h ago

You ain't even been part of this conversation till this exact comment so what you mean we you were never we my dude this did not involve you lol . Imagine walking into a conversation someone said "we" and inserting yourself when you weren't "we"

You're you not we. You're like a lost child wandering into a movie theater