Johnny Buss is the eldest Buss sibling and hasn’t really been involved with the lakers outside of symbolic positions.
His presidential run was composed a tour bus labeled the “Buss tour,” 4 instagram posts, and vapid hubris.
Johnny Buss the oldest sibling was never interested in the Lakers that much and had been looking to get out since his father died. Once Jim Buss got fired, Johnny and Jim tried to stage a coup to oust Jeanie and sell the team. It didn't work.
Janie Buss in 2018 per ESPN:
>I'm really proud of my sister for putting her business hat on," Janie Buss says. "I know how hard it was. My dad's dying wish was to leave the Lakers to all of us and that we would all get along. He'd be sickened if he saw what was going on with my older brothers.
Jesse Buss on Jim Buss trying to sell the team:
>You're really taking down the entire family with you," Jesse says. "I don't think any of us really need that money outside of them. We all live very comfortably. Why not just be happy with what our dad left you?"
With Jeannie's behind the scenes shenanigans, the Buss siblings are singing a different tune. Jesse and Joey have had multiple interviews where they skewered Jeanie publicly and Janie has been quoted as feeling insulted when she was let go.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6824483/2025/11/20/lakers-jesse-buss-fired-jeanie-mark-walter/
She dated Phil Jackson who used his relationship to try to get more power in the organization which lead to Jerry West leaving the franchise. And when he tried to come back, she was too petty to let it happen.
Before 2016 free agency, she had a propaganda campaign running with Ramona Shelburne to paint the Lakers and their front office as incompetent so that she could remove her brother. And that campaign ended in a "documentary" on Sportscenter that led to weeks of people shitting on the Lakers right before 2016 free agency. Jim might have sucked at his job, but yelling that on the top of every building wasn't going to help us.
Bringing in Magic Johnson was an unmitigated disaster. And that was her decision.
One of the only competent departments in the organization was scouting and the G-League, run by the two younger Buss's. She was directly responsible for icing them out. And their replacements picked JHS and Dalton Knecht. The former isn't playing basketball anymore. Like anywhere. Not even in a foreign country and the latter has had his struggles very publicly over the last 2 years.
Balmer's defense of Aspiration completely falls apart with the same scheme being run with Daktronics. How is Balmer going to defend this scheme?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Ksw0IC4CQ
In the episode, Pablo also as a 20 year+ employee from Daktronic who stated that because Daktronic is a B2B business, they do not do endorsement deal. But somehow Kawhi got one.
Which leads to the next question, how much was Kawhi actually getting paid every year to play for the Clippers?
The $5/6m a year extra that was being discussed in threads and on ESPN will probably be worth a couple late first round picks. I'd expect the swaps to be irrelevant.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fcaggi4psub9h1.jpeg
Not the first time future Laker picks have done this. Austin Reaves did it to remain undrafted a few years ago. And then Bronny did it, to drop to 55 and get picked by LAL.
Blue sky bot copying his original tweet of the quote was captured but no longer appears on his timeline:
https://bsky.app/profile/shamsbot.bsky.social/post/3mklc4uvdi42t
I see comments about him actually meaning that Luka would not be ready for Game 1 but not the entire series but haven't seen any proof. Might have shared it on ESPN when he shared the original information.
Holiday and Thiero ejections:
Ayton ejection:
Smart nut shot, there was a second one later:
