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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:15 am    Post subject: Jim Buss was a coffee boy

Some people say Jimmy was responsible for two championships. He was nothing more than a coffee boy to Dr Buss and Mitch. Dr Buss and Mitch did all the heavy lifting. Jimmy had no responsibility. Mitch did the negotiating and his father signed the checks. Jim's claim to fame was drafting Bynum. His Dad allowed him to have a shiny new toy to play with. When Dr Buss passed away Jim finally had responsibility. Four years later he had burned the franchise down to the ground. He was responsible. Now that he's gone if Jim wanted to get an executive job with an NBA team how many teams do you think would hire him? Maybe they would hire him as a coffee boy.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:19 am    Post subject:

So threads about DLO and Jim Buss today.

Past is the past, no? We have an exciting new young core and possible 2 max FA this summer.

What's going on?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:24 am    Post subject: Re: Jim Buss was a coffee boy

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Some people say Jimmy was responsible for two championships. He was nothing more than a coffee boy to Dr Buss and Mitch. Dr Buss and Mitch did all the heavy lifting. Jimmy had no responsibility. Mitch did the negotiating and his father signed the checks. Jim's claim to fame was drafting Bynum. His Dad allowed him to have a shiny new toy to play with. When Dr Buss passed away Jim finally had responsibility. Four years later he had burned the franchise down to the ground. He was responsible. Now that he's gone if Jim wanted to get an executive job with an NBA team how many teams do you think would hire him? Maybe they would hire him as a coffee boy.


I'm currently on January 2018, how about you?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:25 am    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:26 am    Post subject:

yinoma2001 wrote:
So threads about DLO and Jim Buss today.

Past is the past, no? We have an exciting new young core and possible 2 max FA this summer.

What's going on?


Well the exciting part of the equation is debatable after watching them lose for the whole month of december

But yeah ib4 the lock
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:31 am    Post subject:

On the next episode of LG...

Del Harris, a mistake or a means to an end?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:48 am    Post subject:

This is kinda random. I was a fairly vocal critic of Jim when he was in charge, but he’s gone and I don’t see the point in creating a thread randomly criticizing him.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:55 am    Post subject: Re: Jim Buss was a coffee boy

32 wrote:
Some people say Jimmy was responsible for two championships. He was nothing more than a coffee boy to Dr Buss and Mitch. Dr Buss and Mitch did all the heavy lifting. Jimmy had no responsibility. Mitch did the negotiating and his father signed the checks. Jim's claim to fame was drafting Bynum. His Dad allowed him to have a shiny new toy to play with. When Dr Buss passed away Jim finally had responsibility. Four years later he had burned the franchise down to the ground. He was responsible. Now that he's gone if Jim wanted to get an executive job with an NBA team how many teams do you think would hire him? Maybe they would hire him as a coffee boy.



Stay very calm. You have just awoken from a coma that you've been in for a year. You think it's February 2017. It's actually January 2018.

Breathe deeply. You'll be okay.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:36 pm    Post subject:

yinoma2001 wrote:
So threads about DLO and Jim Buss today.

Past is the past, no? We have an exciting new young core and possible 2 max FA this summer.

What's going on?


They catching strays on LG today apparently. Who's next? Dwight? Pringles?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:41 pm    Post subject:

The only thing this thread is going to do is bring in the conspiracy theorists telling us all that Jimbo drafted Magic and is responsible for Shaq & Kobe. Let's put Jimbo in the coffin where he belongs and move on.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Jim Buss was a coffee boy

activeverb wrote:
32 wrote:
Some people say Jimmy was responsible for two championships. He was nothing more than a coffee boy to Dr Buss and Mitch. Dr Buss and Mitch did all the heavy lifting. Jimmy had no responsibility. Mitch did the negotiating and his father signed the checks. Jim's claim to fame was drafting Bynum. His Dad allowed him to have a shiny new toy to play with. When Dr Buss passed away Jim finally had responsibility. Four years later he had burned the franchise down to the ground. He was responsible. Now that he's gone if Jim wanted to get an executive job with an NBA team how many teams do you think would hire him? Maybe they would hire him as a coffee boy.



Stay very calm. You have just awoken from a coma that you've been in for a year. You think it's February 2017. It's actually January 2018.

Breathe deeply. You'll be okay.


How 32 woke up this morning:

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:46 pm    Post subject:

Jeanie Buss is probably more of a cappuccino girl.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:46 pm    Post subject:

tnell wrote:
yinoma2001 wrote:
So threads about DLO and Jim Buss today.

Past is the past, no? We have an exciting new young core and possible 2 max FA this summer.

What's going on?


They catching strays on LG today apparently. Who's next? Dwight? Pringles?

umm, we gonna skip B.Scott (the coach)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:32 pm    Post subject:

yinoma2001 wrote:
So threads about DLO and Jim Buss today.

Past is the past, no? We have an exciting new young core and possible 2 max FA this summer.

What's going on?


For real. OP replies to any sentimental DLO post with a "we're still talking about DLO? Let's move on!"
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:37 pm    Post subject:

governator wrote:
tnell wrote:
yinoma2001 wrote:
So threads about DLO and Jim Buss today.

Past is the past, no? We have an exciting new young core and possible 2 max FA this summer.

What's going on?


They catching strays on LG today apparently. Who's next? Dwight? Pringles?

umm, we gonna skip B.Scott (the coach)


Eh he deserves it
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:37 pm    Post subject:

And yet still better than Jeanie
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:50 pm    Post subject:

DangeRuss wrote:
And yet still better than Jeanie


This x 1,000,000
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:30 pm    Post subject:

Aeneas Hunter wrote:
Jeanie Buss is probably more of a cappuccino girl.


Mitch was a hot cocoa bro
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 5:16 pm    Post subject:

chirp chirp
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 5:18 pm    Post subject:

This is the last thing I needed to read while drinking coffee.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 5:35 pm    Post subject:

Every single one of the Buss kids got their role as the result of nepotism.

The Phil Jackson nonsense is what ultimately doomed Jim. The player personnel moves during his tenure were criticized in hindsight by people who celebrated them in realtime, and I think Mitch was the one signing off on the moves.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 6:52 pm    Post subject:

Jim Buss is a moron. He also isn't a Laker anymore. He's someone else's moron now.
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