Going back to the days of Jerry Buss’ ownership, the Los Angeles Lakers have traditionally always been willing to spend whatever it takes an more to chase championships.
Under the new CBA that level of spending been made a little bit more painful, as well as making it a lot harder to get numerous players on your team worth the money, and maybe that is what contributed to Johnny Buss’ fears about new Lakers president of basketball operations Magic Johnson.
According to Johnny Buss (speaking in a larger feature story on his sister Jeanie Buss) he and his brother Jim’s infamous and brazen palace coup attempt against their sister was not a coup attempt at all, and merely a move made in order to get oversight over the team’s budget.