McKinney stopped practice and told Johnson that a pass was useless if the recipient couldn’t see it coming. Johnson nodded, said he understood, agreed—“Then practice began,” said Wilkes, “and the first pass he threw me was this wicked no-looker between defenders that nailed me in the head again. I got the point. ‘You be ready for my passes, or else you won’t get them.’ Jack wanted Magic to adjust to us but, truthfully, we all needed to adjust to him.”
