Jeanie Buss Discussion: Following In Dad's Footsteps

Absolutely. I’m not mad at the younger brothers for trying to honor their old man and keep the franchise in the family.

But as a fan, this chapter can’t close fast enough.

 

Ehh. Fifth hand info so do what you want with it but if Rob wants to be here past Jeannie he should probably make sure things are good with Magic.


Jeannie looked out for her team in the deal well aware that the clocks ticking loudly on all of them.


I remain in the “just clean house and start fresh” camp.


It’s an absolute miracle we are where we are with the level of disfunction in that front office.

 

define irony, though. because what qualifications does magic have as FO guy beyond being trusted by walter?

and i'm being serious: do you want magic having input on any front office decisions--even whom to hire for the front office? nothing i've seen from him suggests he knows what he's doing in this regard. this is not jerry west.

 

Please no Magic again

 

Magic is good at airing dirty laundry and felt he was backstabbed! He made the best trade ever by dumping Zubac for Muscala! What a lowlight in Lakers history





Thank god we won after getting AD. Otherwise, this franchise would've sank further and further into the ground.

 

Exactly. No hard feelings, towards any of them, not even Jim, but please just leave and take the Rambii with you. I also have a soft spot fot the younger Buss brothers, they seem to have done a good job and cared for Jerry's legacy, but it's just time to let go.

 

Magic is probably worse than the Rambii, and I have no clue what they're responsible for. For now I choose to stay optimistic and assume the new ownership is smart enough to not make ANY decisions based on Earwin's advice.

 

I never wanted Magic or Rob and spent the whole summer arguing about it with Vash. Good times lol.

But both were brought in based on Laker ties and I didn’t like it. Neither has experience in their roles and I wanted a group who could hit the ground running without needing to learn on the job.

Hoping we can do things the right way with professionals from top to bottom who can do their jobs without finger pointing or dating the head coach.

All that said, Magic has had “input” for awhile and never really left in that sense. He WILL be involved with this transition but not in a leadership role so that doesn’t bother me much. He’s fine for helping pitch talent and being an ambassador of sorts for the team. He shouldn’t be running the club.

 

100% this

It's never personal, it's just business

And it should be treated that way always

 

He was the sole reason why we didn’t get Paul George from Indy AND why they won’t even consider trading with us anytime soon.
Don’t you remember him blabbing his big mouth off about it on a talk show?
He’s been nothing short of awful with all his “helping out” that he has done over the past decade and change.
Sure, he can help lure free agents, just as long as he doesn’t talk about it afterwards on talk shows or podcasts.
Zubac for Muscala!!!!!!!!

 

I tried reading the article but couldn’t get through it. Read like the Enquirer.

My only comment is the “You should have never been born” quote. Maybe Jeannie is a terrible person. I’m not attached to her and wanted her to sell for a while.

However, I read that as a private conversation between her and her younger brother. The article referenced “multiple people with knowledge of the call.”

Sounds like the multiple people with knowledge is just Jesse’s word and what he told people. Based on how the younger brothers are trying to burn the house down on the way out, I’m taking anything from them with a grain of salt.

Ready to move on from the Buss family altogether, but articles like these aren’t conjuring sympathy for any of the brothers.

 

Meh: a bunch of people who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths who can't figure meaning in their coddled lives because they've done s*** compared to their dad.
Happens but the annoying things is no one wants to say it, but part of the reason they did't want to give up the Lakers is the cache, the facetime with stars who come to games, hell the Laker girls.
It's just not the same as the Kings or Pelicans. You become a de facto star as an owner of the Lakers.

 

Well actually…Paul George was on Rob who got caught tampering after the league had already told us to knock it off.

We don’t get LeBron without him which also means no AD.

We were not keeping Zubac. So while I didn’t like the Zubac trade as we could have gotten more for him, I honestly think it’s been a bit overblown over the years and letting Brook walk when he wanted to stay was actually worse. Even if we do consider it a job killer, Rob was the GM so his hands are also dirty on that and it’s just another reason to escort him out the building and start over.

And I completely reject the notion that Rob had no power in any of the bad deals but if he didn’t and was just going along with things that may be even worse.

I’m old enough to remember a very powerful guy who was insane enough to suggest trading Kobe Bryant. The GM wasnt perfect but fortunately told Phil Jackson no. Another crazy guy with an insane ego wanted to get rid of Scottie Pippen, but again someone had the balls to tell Michael Jordan that wasn’t a good idea. If anyone had issue with that Zubac trade they should’ve spoken up. If they didn’t then it’s on them too as far as I’m concerned.

Magic won’t be running the team but he has Walter’s ear and anyone who is trying to stick around might want to make sure things are good with him. That’s all I got on it.