Jeanie Buss attempted to clear the air with her extended sit-down with Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times, and as the Talk-O-Tuesday podcast discovered, she didn’t exactly do herself many favors.
After combing through that interview, and a subsequent conversation that Plaschke had with Doug Gottlieb, the “I Love Basketball” crew of Sabreena Merchant and Raj Chipalu were left with several questions, chief among them: who actually bears responsibility for basketball decisions?
Buss said she is “held accountable for every decision” that is made by the Lakers, but Rob Pelinka has also said that he has the final say on basketball matters and all the while fans have been pelted with leaks that it was LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Klutch Sports who wanted to trade for Russell Westbrook.