if this doesn’t work in three to four years, if we’re not back on the top — and the definition of top means contending for the Western Conference, contending for a championship — then I will step down because that means I have failed - Jimbo
Sam Amick of USA Today:When pressed on the matter of when the deadline date will be, Jim said, “Two more full seasons, a summer of change and then let that season go. Whatever happens in that third season, that’s fine. I have no problem with that. I think we’re that close.”
Yet Jeanie, the Lakers president, told USA TODAY Sports that she was perplexed by that characterization of the timeline.
“He has given me a timeline, and I have no reason to think that they won’t have a compe ive team by the deadline,” Jeanie said.
That deadline, she was asked, is the end of the 2016-17 season?
“Yes,” she said. “Not this season, but the end of next season, which will be the summer of 2017.”