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    Bill Plaschke: Lakers owner Jeanie Buss has big decisions to make after Magic Johnson's departure

    by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Apr 11, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The swell thing about family ownership in professional sports is the feeling that your team is being run by somebody with a deeply personal investment in its success.

    The lousy thing about family ownership is, well, family.

    Family members tend to forgive each other's weaknesses, exaggerate each other's strengths, and deal with each other emotionally instead of rationally.

    When Jeanie Buss hired Magic Johnson as president of basketball operation for the Los Angeles Lakers two years ago, she didn't view it as hiring a former player who had virtually no front-office experience. She was hiring a man she considers her brother. Magic was family.

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