It’s been 11 days since Magic Johnson abruptly announced that he was stepping down as president of basketball operations for the Los Angeles Lakers. But while he’s tweeting his happy heart out, the organization he left behind is looking to fill the void.
Several big names have been floated around as potential replacements for Johnson, and there have even been rumors that his replacement is currently working in a playoff team’s front office, but Ramona Shelburne of ESPN once again questioned how much truth there was to any of those rumors during an appearance on ESPN Radio’s “Mason and Ireland” on Friday:
“Everything I hear from people who would know is denials of this white knight theory, and the idea that they’re still processing and deciding everything else.