Crazy that they got rid of Magic and got someone just as stupid 

lmao

Thanks Magic

Some players are just better off not being a gm or coach

He’s close with Jeanie. That’s the whole reason. Same reason Jeanie’s best friend’s husband remains a part of the Lakers “brain trust”.

Jeanie Buss is an idiot and likes to hire flunkies. Like the Rambii, Ham, Luke, and Magic. There are probably many more, but not too many public facing positions that we’d know about.

Kobe’s former agent is our President of Basketball ops and Gm

Jeanie prioritised ‘loyalty’ (ie. people she liked) over competence. Plus the Lakers have always been infatuated with star power and celebrity.

Status + charisma.

Jeanie sees him like a brother, fired one so she replaced him with another

You really don’t know how?

Jim Buss was in charge and running the Lakers into the ground. Jeanie had to make a choice between kicking his brother out early (Jim had a timeline to rebuild the Lakers) or keep letting him run the team as her father wanted. She felt she had no one she could really trust. Magic was one of the exception. She kicked Jim out and put Magic in charge. Magic then immediately clean up the mess Jim made to create cap room for LeBron’s free agency. If that hadn’t happen, LeBron wouldn’t even want to come to LA or he would be playing with Timofey Mozgov (again) and Luol Deng.

That’s why despite Magic’s problem, I will forever be grateful for Magic’s tenure because of how terrible Jim Buss was.

Magic was doing a favor to Jeanie after she fired Kupchak and her brother. Magic admitted he didn’t know/want to be involved everyday. Q

Men with no actual qualifications and are pretty stupid getting important jobs. A tale as old as time.

He did not have the qualifications to do the role, but it’s the Lakers. They’ll hire anybody, and the less qualified, the better.

5 rings and being the family that Jerry and Jeannie wish they had.

Jeanie. Luckily she no longer has any power.

I couldn’t stand him during that tenure. Just horrible. He had to go before the city turned on him.

Just like how the rambis’ got their jobs.

Jeanie forced out her brother and his people, but had no clue how to run the basketball side and was only comfortable with close friends (almost family)

Being the GOAT point guard helps.

Well, LeBron is there because of him…

Magic and Earvin Johnson are two very different dudes.

Lakers had 2 of the best bigs for the team dynamic and got rid of both so they could chase washed bums on minimums

Also, does Magic have a beef with Kareem? One of the best NBA players of all time wants to be a trainer and the Lakers just say “no”????

Zubac was basically a healthy, less athletic Andrew Bynum, who was running the floor and catching lobs regularly before the first knee injury right before the Pau trade. Great hands, strong, nice footwork, good finisher.

Zu and Caruso should still be Lakers. Also, I don’t get why they refused to give Kareem a full-time role, other than being cheap. He wasn’t asking to be the head coach, and he had previously had a similar role when Bynum was drafted.

Pelinka and Jeanie really are the real franchise killers that everyone thinks the mavs are but they keep falling upwards into success

The Buss kids shit on Kareem and Jerry West, but kept Kurt Rambis around. Makes no sense.

seriously. Top 3 player of all time. I truly don’t get it.

UNFORGIVABLE 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

We could have had a freaking sky hook factory in the making

Exactly

I wasnt upset about the trade,as at that time he was not the player he currently is

But for mike muscala?

What a fkn trash trade

Lakers front office is such a dumpster fire that they’re still asking Zubac what it was like when he hasn’t played there in 7 years

Hey that’s Sixers legend Mike Muscala to you

Magic is the exact type of guy you expect to make a lot of money, great playing career, was loved by fans/media, always involved off the court, always great with other players, had great connections

It’s not, magic used the fact that everyone loved him, to network with people who can elevate him business wise. He’s so privileged bc of his stardom tho, so he can start something and quit and no one will really make him pay for it

He’s a scumbag businessman

They didn’t want to pay for a full time position. Who knows what cost would’ve been. Not that it’s an excuse, but rather it just underscores how poor the Lakers ownership actually is. After Dr Buss died the team has been like the mom in Titanic. They only have their name. Their dad left them nothing.

I mean obviously they aren’t eating cat food every night, but there’s a reason they were a terrible team until they outsourced their roster to Klutch. This is very conspiratorial: but the Lakers traded for Luka and got rid of AD (a major Klutch client) and six months later the Buss ownership sold the Lakers. I think everyone high up knew something needed to change with the Lakers because it’s a marquee franchise across all sports. And long term, the Buss family wasn’t going to be financially strong enough to compete—not when salaries are reaching \(50-\)60 million a year.

So yeah, that’s why I think they were just too cheap to pay Kareem for a full time job.

Wtf is a Celtics fan saying the Greatest center? RUSSEL ROLLING OVER HIS GODDAMN GRAVE WITH UR MOUTH

I remember LakerFilmRoom being like don’t meet your heroes after getting a job for the lakers during the Magic tenure lmfao

They stopped giving Jerry West his usual season tickets or whatever, the fcking logo, unbelievable

Bc of $$$

I watched this whole interview and guy just comes as smug and incompetent for the job.

• nobody had his number and you could not reach out to him, Zubac said it was always Rob Pelinka calling and it would be Magic on speakerphone
• the reason Kareem even wanted to work with Zubac was because some coach spoted that he has some sort of sky hook and called him to check it out. Basically he showed it to him, kareem said that it has potential and that he would like to help him to develp this etc. went to a meeting with Magic and said that it will not happen. Zubac said, that was the end of skyhook for me haha
• he also said to him multiple time he will not play beacuse he didn’t develop, never explained what he wants. and then later when he had a good game against AD as OP described just said ti him - I knew you could do it
• he also did not said he is disappointed in him for not being summer league MVP in thas stacked team. he said to him that he is expecting him to be MVP if he wanta to play next season. which is even worse

I mean who else would know more about how awful LeBron is but the fans and his haters? Obviously his former teammates know nothing about his real personality, dude is a two-faced slimeball who wants to trade all of them for a super team. Also he is worse than Hitler and flops a lot.

And on zo and tatum.

Magic has plenty of flaws. That draft pick shouldn’t be one of them. Tatum was the consensus third guy at best: everyone had Fultz and Ball ahead of him. Mocks had Tatum anywhere from 3-7. 

Revisionist history.

Lonzo was very clearly the more touted prospect and it was pretty much a given we were taking him from the moment we got the #2 pick. He was supposed to be our generational PG.

Also, Tatum would’ve been a part of the AD trade regardless.

He should of picked Fox over Ball especially since Fox was whooping Ball’s ass in college too

Boston wouldn’t trade down from #1 to #3 if they hear Lakers have interest in Tatum

Legacy points added

I wish Zu spent a longer time with the Lakers it was bad management