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Bill Plaschke:
Lakers' Buss knows when to hold 'em
Again running his team like a well-played poker hand, the owner has Lakers back in the chips after three lean years and one stormy summer.
March 2 2008
The best owner in the history of professional sports is strolling through his sprawling hilltop home when he comes upon an ornate wooden door riddled with three gaping holes.
It is the door to his private elevator. It is also, perhaps, the portal to a philosophy.
Buss said he has looked at Kupchak's lack of big trades before the Gasol deal the same way he looks at his beloved poker.
"When somebody asks why I didn't do well in poker, I say, 'Why don't you just give me your pair of aces for my two jacks, then I'll do fine,' " he says. "You just don't go out and get a good player that easily. I knew what Mitch was doing, I knew what his difficulties were, I think he's done a fabulous job."
Me included of course.
Outstanding article.
— Mags