Hall of Famer and Los Angeles icon Magic Johnson has joined the city's bid for the 2024 Olympics as a vice chairman, organizers announced Wednesday.

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"The only thing greater than bringing a sports championship to Los Angeles would be bringing the Olympics Phil Haynes Jersey back to the best sports town in America," . "I was here for the 1984 Games, and I saw a city that was united and honored to welcome the world. As a former Olympian, I'm proud to join the LA 2024 team and give them 'an a sist' in returning the 2024 Olympic and Tre Flowers Jersey Paralympic Games to the United States."

Johnson played 13 seasons for the Lakers and is part of Dodgers ownership. He joins Southern California trade union official Maria Elena Durazo, also announced Wednesday, and four-time Olympic swimming champion Janet Evans on the board of directors of Los Angeles 2024, the group leading the Los Angeles bid. That push was .

Los Angeles hopes to bring the Summer Games to the U.S. for the first time since the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. It has an advantage with its proposed bid because of existing infrastructure and Seattle Seahawks Jersey facilities from the 1984 Games.

Some of those facilities, however, might need significant upgrades. The included the Coliseum and a swimming center among projects that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Facilities construction became a sticking point in Boston, which in the summer, leaving the USOC to turn to Los Angeles.

The field of candidate cities Delano Hill Jersey outside the United States includes Paris, Rome, Budapest Ethan Pocic Jersey and Hamburg, Germany.

The International Olympic Committee will announce the winning host city in September 2017.

The most recent Olympics staged in the United States was the 2002 Winter Games in Utah. In addition to the '84 Games, Los Angeles was site for the 1932 Summer Olympics.