Jeanie Buss Discussion: Following In Dad's Footsteps

i think the problem for me is that it's clearly meant to make her look awful and that's the best they could do.

i want her out just for the rambii alone, tbh, so it's not like i'm jeanie's #1 fan, but it honestly sounds like it's just more of the younger busses just kind of throwing an adult tantrum. right down to several instances in the article where they're like "you know we could have thrown like nine more tantrums but didn't!" so you're doing it now. way to go.

 

Yeah. I think she looks bad in a lot of ways both personal and professional.

This is a hit piece for sure but pretty damning IMHO.

 

Love the Lakers and long for the day when we didn't know too much about people's lives and only focused on the sport.

Not going to click or watch to support it. They will all be gone soon enough I suppose, but like abeer said, it's all unbecoming.

 

I think she will be gone sooner. Maybe this whole article is part of plan to get her to go ahead and walk away. I don't know but I will be surprised if she is around the whole five years.

 

so tired of this mom and pop shop drama. no reason for jeanie to stick around with walter taking over

and the lebron stuff is dumb. everyone knows it was he and AD pushing for westbrick and lebron's rightfully taken the blame for it from fans/the media

 

Wanting accountability from everyone else while not taking any blame herself is a big part of the problem with Jeannie's entire run as head of the organization.

 

Dang, I thought you were talking about LeBron for a second

 

LeBron doesn't have the final say. She does. Lebron has wanted a lot of players.

I want someone running the team who can say no.

 

I’m meant the part about wanting accountability for everybody else, but not taking any blame himself

 

I gotcha....

 

i typed a longer response, but i'm still just not ready buy the buss brothers' story at face value. like i'm sure jeanie could find a journalist to write a hit piece on them (e.g., i have a strong suspicion some balls were dropped in jesse's department the past couple years), but it would further hurt the franchise she still works for, so it's not a good option (it's never a good option, anyway).

my hope is that the bonuses negotiated (and here i believe the brothers--jeanie definitely negotiated; it wasn't just a random offer that paid all her friends) were golden parachutes that all those folks take on outta here.

 

this is crucial to me and was always my biggest beef. the younger busses tried to hand-wave at it in the article, but it's an issue. note they didn't say they had grand plans to spend with the ballmers, they said it doesn't matter due to the salary cap and aprons. that's disingenuous to me. first of all, the clippers have shown that if you have enough money, the cap doesn't even exist, really. further, all the other stuff (coaches, gms, scouting, medical staff, etc.) matters. people talk about how small our operation was, and i believe that. i don't believe that the younger busses wouldn't have just pulled their own version of keeping in the family with a different cast playing the roles of the rambii, etc.

we're the biggest brand in the game; let's catch up with how modern franchises are run.

 

rob can stay or go. what can't happen is rob doing the whole job by himself anymore, imo. i really don't think anyone does that. i get why he wouldn't want to work with magic, but someone with real nba gm experience--and relationships--could certainly help.