Kanye West's decision to buy a chain of Burger King restaurants for Kim Kardashian might not have been as weird a decision as we first thought. In fact, he may have taken his inspiration from basketball legend Magic Johnson, who'd done the same thing many years previously. The scale of Johnson's purchases was far grander than West's though.
In total, Johnson paid cash to acquire thirty Burger King restaurants in 2004. They joined his existing fast food empire of several branches of T.G.I. Fridays and Starbucks. He's since sold off the Starbucks and T.G.I. Friday's chains, but has kept on all the Burger King restaurants, which suggests that they must be earning him good money. And to think that there are people who say that professional athletes are all athleticism and no smarts! That idea has turned out to be a lie. In fact, it's a whopper!