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if the Lakers land the number 1 pick, do you think this is a plausible scenario?

No.

Why would Phil do that, the Knicks are better than the Lakers.

Phil has never been one to coach a bad team i dont see any reason why hed start now.

I hope not. We got the best out of Phil while he was coaching, its best to let the relationship end like that. if Jim Buss is gone, I'd rather let Mitch be the Team President and have Ryan West take over as full time GM.

I didn't mean as coach. Does he return to be Team President and work alongside his girlfriend, Jeannie Buss.

Phil's coaching days are over.

No. Dolan is paying him a bunch of money.

Slava wrote:I hope not. We got the best out of Phil while he was coaching, its best to let the relationship end like that. if Jim Buss is gone, I'd rather let Mitch be the Team President and have Ryan West take over as full time GM.

Mitch needs to go too.

arenas809 wrote:

Slava wrote:I hope not. We got the best out of Phil while he was coaching, its best to let the relationship end like that. if Jim Buss is gone, I'd rather let Mitch be the Team President and have Ryan West take over as full time GM.

Mitch needs to go too.

Why does mitch need to go?

Lost Angel wrote:if the Lakers land the number 1 pick, do you think this is a plausible scenario?

Well, overriding everything is as you suspect, the relationship between Jimmy and Jeanie Buss. We can only speculate there.

My take on it has always been that Jeanie has no real right to give her brother the axe until he's been 1 full attempt to rebuild. I realize the team has sucked for 3 years, and in other circumstances that might have been enough, but with Kobe there, the future has been put on hold. Of course if Jeanie blamed Jimmy for that, and advised him to do otherwise, that's one thing, but it was a pretty understandable decision as much as I personally didn't like it.

Last thought: I've been much more uncomfortable with the Lakers this year compared to previous years because of the way Kobe's become a circus and Byron's been acting just plain weird. But to me, if you've got a GM who wasn't close to being fired before this year, you don't consider offing him just for that - you off the coach. All the more so, I'd think, if we're talking about a family business.

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Does Jeanie really have overriding powers over Jim Buss enough to do that?

if it came from SAS it's BS

I'll believe it when I see it. I really don't believe anything that comes out SAS's mouth.

why get rid of mitch though? He's been great! A lot of folks rag on him but we're just six years from back to back titles and three straight finals appearances. We're also just 4 years from almost having cp3 and maybe howard. let mitch stay

last week: Durant and Westbrook
this week: Phil as Coach

Either he's just broke what will be the biggest story line ever he's just being his normal, semi-retarded self

I think it's the latter

Sometimes I wonder if Jim is incompetent or stubborn or both.

Does the Laker organization even know what that means? Sounds like uncharted territory.

Does SAS think he knows credible people inside the Lakers organization or something?

Getting rid of Kupchak would be pretty silly. Guy has pulled off enough heist to keep his job a while.

laploutocratie wrote:Does Jeanie really have overriding powers over Jim Buss enough to do that?

Technically, yes.