Lakers Win With Extra Magic Help : Basketball: Johnson plays the entire second half and finishes with 33 points in a 105-96 victory over Seattle.

The Lakers bade the Forum farewell for a while. For Auld Lange Syne and also for the sake of their winning streak, Mike Dunleavy let Magic Johnson, his 31-year-old elder statesman, play the entire second half. He can rest on the plane to Indiana.

How did the old geezer do?

Johnson made 12 of 14 shots and scored a season-high 33 points as the Lakers finally subdued the Seattle SuperSonics, 105-96, Friday night before 17,505 in the Forum, running the winning streak to six.

Is there someone out there who is surprised?

Johnson wonders.

“I got a lot of ‘lane’ tonight,” he said. “The reason was that Sam (Perkins) was in trouble.

“Everybody says, ‘He can’t play the way he used to, this and that.’ The thing is, we’ve got two low-post players (Perkins and James Worthy) now, so the middle doesn’t open up the way it used to. But tonight Sam was missing (with only four points).

“Well, you know, I laugh when I hear it. It’s funny. I know what I’m doing. I’m trying to make us a better team. If I go out and try to prove ‘em wrong, we might not win as many games. I’ll take my nine shots as long as we win.”

Not to mention his 44 minutes.

To keep Johnson company, Dunleavy let Byron Scott and Vlade Divac go the entire second half, too.

“We needed that matchup on the floor,” Dunleavy said. “I told ‘em, ‘We have tomorrow off.’

“Everybody else in the league got beat--Detroit, San Antonio, Boston. That’s why I thought I had to do it. That’s why I did it.”

Johnson said he would do it willingly--”as long as it doesn’t happen too often.”

The game was a struggle from the start. If you wondered whether the Lakers got off their charter back from Sacramento raring to go, you had only to wait for the game to start . . . and Seattle to win the opening tipoff . . . and Dale Ellis to score on his third shot of the first possession.

The SuperSonics went into a soft man-to-man--or a tacit zone--and offered the Lakers outside shots. The Lakers missed and soon trailed, 18-10. They caught up by mid-second quarter, tying the game picturesquely when Johnson shot an airball trying to beat the shot clock and the ball dropped right in the lap of Perkins, whose layup also beat the buzzer.

Such artistry couldn’t prevent Seattle from grabbing a 49-45 halftime lead.

Things were looking no better for the Lakers by mid-third quarter, when the Sonics went ahead, 64-57. But Shawn Kemp missed a layup in traffic, the Lakers rebounded and ran with it and Worthy scored on a dunk, starting a rally. By the end of the third quarter, Johnson was up to 21 points and the Lakers had a 72-71 lead.

The Lakers opened a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter. Seattle cut it to 97-92 and with 1:29 left, had a chance to cut it further with Sedale Threatt on the line. Threatt missed both free throws and there went the rally.

The Lakers left town laughing.

Laker Notes

Terry Teagle is three for 11 in two games. Mike Dunleavy sat him out for Friday’s second half, along with Tony Smith, the rookie guard he is auditioning for Larry Drew’s old job backing up Magic Johnson. . . . A.C. Green was called for a technical foul--the third by the Lakers all season, a phenomenally low total. Byron Scott and James Worthy have the others. . . . Seattle’s 21-year-old Shawn Kemp had 20 points, eight rebounds, 10 blocks . . . . The sellout was the Lakers’ third of the season in 17 games. Last season, they sold out 35 of 41. . . . The Lakers’ next game: at Indiana Monday in the first of a five-game trip, concluding at Boston on Super Bowl Sunday.