Stern eventually changed the subject to Johnson’s HIV status, which he’d disclosed at a 1991 press conference when he retired from the NBA. “You had the life I wanted,” Stern said later in the interview, prodding Johnson about his sexual history before his diagnosis. “These were white chicks? Black chicks? What do we got? What did you prefer? You would have sex with everybody? At least you had fun getting AIDS.” Johnson calmly corrected Stern, saying that he had HIV, not AIDS, and that “nobody has fun” contracting it. “Believe me, brother, you did. It sounds like fun to me,” Stern replied.