dockingsched wrote:the current owner is jerry buss, arguably the greatest owner in sports. the hell u talking about "if the current owner is as bad as reports make him seem"
Jim Buss is running day-to-day operations for the Lakers.
Anyways, this thread is exactly what I said - people who think history+Hollywood will somehow magically make the Lakers good, despite bad management.
If you believe that, then:
- Why didn't the Yankees win in the 80s when George Steinbrenner was mucking things up? They only won when Steinbrenner put his ego aside and let baseball people make baseball decisions.
- Why didn't the Redskins win with Dan Snyder playing owner/GM? He ran around paying gobs of money to big names too: Deion Sanders, Albert Haynesworth, etc.
- Why haven't the Knicks won in forever under Dolan?
- Why did the Raiders fall off as Al Davis started losing it?
- Why haven't the Dodgers won under the ownership of Fox or Frank McCourt?
And by "win" I'm not even talking about titles, I'm talking about regularly making the playoffs.
All those teams had proud histories of consistent success too... until management turned sour. All those franchises have multiple championships - heck, the Yankees are the greatest franchise in American pro sports. They were all in good markets - 2 of those teams are/were in the same market the Lakers are in.
Yet during periods of bad management, every single one of them struggled to even make the playoffs. Just as the Lakers are struggling to make the playoffs right now, since Jim Buss purged the front office.