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Well, the Laker way isn’t the same, because Dr. Buss isn’t here.
Jeanie Buss thinks her dad could have kept Dwight Howard in L.A.
There were a mul ude of reasons Dwight Howard bolted the Lakers to land with the Rockets, but in the end it all came down to trust — Howard didn’t trust the Lakers would feature him properly and build a contender around him.
That’s the opposite of Kobe Bryant back in 2004 — Kobe was very close to leaving for the Clippers, but Jerry Buss called him up, and because they had a mutual trust, Buss talked him out of leaving.
Jeanie Buss, the daughter of Jerry and one of the Lakers co-owners, thinks if her father had been around Howard would be with the Lakers today. That’s what she told ESPN Radio in Los Angeles on Thursday, as transcribed by Ramona Shelburne at ESPNLosAngeles.com.
“They would’ve probably had a better relationship if my dad hadn’t been sick,” Jeanie Buss said …. “When it came time to try to convince Dwight to stay, we lost the best closer in the business in Dr. Buss.
“Putting up the billboard maybe wasn’t the right thing. But we maybe have to learn to do things differently because Dr. Buss isn’t here anymore. People said [of the billboards], ‘Oh, that’s not the Laker way.’ Well, the Laker way isn’t the same, because Dr. Buss isn’t here.”
The billboard was playing to his ego, playing to Howard’s need for praise and reinforcement. But it was a poor subs ute for the kind of relationship and trust the Lakers had a season to forge with Howard and couldn’t.
Then he meets with Houston, and they can sell him on winning basketball, but more than that Chandler Parsons sells him on team comrodery and a collegial atmosphere. It’s the things he didn’t think he could get in Los Angeles.
Would Jerry Buss have made a difference? If he were healthy and in his prime, my guess is a number of things would have been different. Who knows if that would have kept Howard in town.
Well, the Laker way isn’t the same, because Dr. Buss isn’t here.
Dr. Buss had Genco (Jerry West), Jim Buss has Mitch
comrodery?
#Fredo
When I saw the le I just knew it had to be a Godfather reference.
He is weak but they love him
Too bad they didn't have him taken care after the Lakers got sent fishin'.
Jeanie needs to take this out on Lake Tahoe to fish.
It's better seeing Fredo running the family tbh. Good comedy.
Absolutely. But there's nothing better than false hope for an enemy. With Steak Boy liable to take 20 mill after this season, they're ed. It's like watching someone drowning above the surface who has a anvil tied to their ankle. Bound to drown regardless.
$20 million? said he ain't taking a paycut. LOL paying the anchor half the salary cap so he can keep the team from moving forward.
Ah man, more than 20 mill?Unless they go Steinbrenner/Prokhorov, or get touched by the hand of G.O.D, they're ed LOL
TBH, no one wants to go there, so they don't have much of a choice. Worse case scenario, Bryant goes cyborg Jordan mode and plays into his later years.
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