Jeanie Buss FIRES Joey, Jesse Buss. Los Angeles Lakers SHAKE UP Basketball Operations

Jeanie Buss FIRES Joey, Jesse Buss. Los Angeles Lakers SHAKE UP Basketball Operations

Hey everyone, welcome to Locked on Lakers for Friday. Brian Kimki, Andy Kimki, a major shakeup in the Lakers basketball operations. Jessie bus, Joey Bus fired. We’ll explain what it means next. You are Locked on Lakers, your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. Thanks to everybody for making Locked On Lakers your first listen of every day. Of course, the Locked On podcast network, Andy, the number one podcast uh sports podcast network in any uh known universe and probably the unknown ones, too. We just don’t know yet. Um 37,000 subscribers getting uh to the Lockdown Lakers YouTube page. We appreciate you tuning into the show there if that’s your preference. Perhaps you’re subscribing on Apple iTunes or Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. It’s never even behind a payw wall for you. Uh, and uh, it’s gonna be always free. It was shaping up to be a sleepy Thursday in Elsa Gundo. You were at practice. You know, what are we talking about? Not much. Guys are trying to get used to LeBron being there. Blah blah blah blah blah. And all of a sudden, bombs dropping. Major news. Uh the entire scouting department basically fired. Joey Bus, Jesse Bus, uh and a bunch of scouts all gone. Um they were uh fired by the organization Thursday afternoon in a s, you know, at least from a timing standpoint, very surprising to pretty much everyone. I was going to say at practice today, none of the reporters, like the ones that I consider the most plugged in, seemed to have had any inkling this was coming. Now, it’s been very clear they saw this as both a possibility and then an inevitability, but nobody seemed to have seen this coming at all. Um, and so just from a logistical standpoint, it means uh for people who don’t know, uh, Jesse Bus was essentially in charge of the Lakers scouting infrastructure. Um, there’s no essentially, he was in charge of it. I not using his title is basically what I’m saying. Um, and you know, that includes domestic and international scouting and things like that. Um Joey Bus ran the the South Bay Lakers and so you know you have an influence obviously on who’s on that roster which can feed the big club. Uh it influences the two-way contracts that are being signed and stuff like that. So you know these are important people inside uh the the basketball operation. They are generally considered to um have been doing a pretty good job at the very least. You know, it can always be Andy a little bit tricky to say um who is ultimately making decisions and this and that and whatever. Um although we will get to that again based on Jesse Bus’s comments uh after he was let go. Jesse Bust wasted zero time in uh in making his feelings um understood and uh yeah, a few shots fired across the bow of of Rob Pelinka and his sister. um, Genie Bus. Um, but generally speaking, you know, those areas that those guys were responsible for were seen to have been positive spots inside the organization over the last decade. Kind of regardless with what was going on with Rob Pelinka and his uh, you know, and his work with the with the the main roster. They were wellresected around the league. you and I have always thought well of them. Um I know I’ve had over the years handful of conversations with Joey more so than Jesse, but I’ve always thought he’s a really sharp guy. Um, and I think if you look at their overall track record and also we’ll start getting into some of the areas from Jesse’s comments that reflect if nothing else in Jesse’s mind, achievements that he and Joey have have had that aren’t commonly linked back to them, but they think should be. And if nothing else, uh, a lot of the credit that maybe have gone maybe has gone only towards say Rob Pelinka was not deserved. Well, I mean, look, you you look at the the track record for draft picks, the track record for undrafted free agents, the track, you know, that th those are things that those guys are, you know, the players that those guys are scouting. And, you know, Alex Caruso, Austin Reeves, those are undrafted free agents. If you look at their their draft track record, most of the people that they’ve drafted are in the league and have had pretty decent careers. You know, certainly relative to their to their draft position. Um th this is a fascinating story for me because I think you can break it into two different sections. There is the question of like the like the work was the work good. Um there’s, you know, sort of how you organize a basketball operations department, all these other things. And then the other half of this conversation is the postale organizational structure of the Lakers. Um some Palace intrigue, some things like that that are really unique, I think, to the context of the Lakers. Um, and the fact that Joey and Jesse Bus were, and oh, by the way, still are part owners of the team. Um, they were the two um the two no votes um for the sale. Interesting though, it is presumed and for what it is worth, Ramona Shelburn was on Mason and Ireland on 710 ESPN and paraphrasing a bit of what she said, but she has heard conflicting information about whether or not there were no votes. She has heard something to the effect of there were four before Joey and Jesse even had their votes in. There were four yeses. So at that point, regardless of how they felt about it, it wouldn’t have mattered because you already had the majority, so the sale was final. And she’s also heard that they were no votes. I was just going to say it makes sense that they would be because the most these guys are us like they’re they would have, you know, be the be ultimately the two who inherit the team in the long run. So um it makes sense in that regard. Well, they they had the most to lose in the sense that they would be the ones that would inherit the team. Like the the way the structure, my understanding like the structure of will, trust, team, all of that was it was essentially, you know, it it would essentially be passed through to the last living kids and them being the youngest that would stand to be them. But also too, they were Jeanie obviously has been the governor and is currently seen as the one overseeing the whole operation during this transition with Mark Walter. But Joey and Jesse both had jobs within the organization. And with this sale, they could stand to, and it turned out to be the case, to lose their jobs. And as Jesse said in an interview with The Athletic, Dr. bus, you know, in in addition to his vision of, you know, Genie and Jim Bus, you know, running the thing together, Jeanie on the business side, but with the ultimate, say Jim running basketball ops, that eventually Jim would retire and Jesse and Joey would have essentially taken over that. So, I don’t know. And I don’t know how much that ever aligned with Jeanie’s vision. Clearly not a lot. But from their perspective, if they either voted no or were very hesitant with getting on board or eventually realized they had no choice, they were the ones that really had the most at stake. Well, for sure. and you know and and we’ll we’ll talk a little bit more about this after the break, but you know this this is ultimately the the sort of final dismantling of I mean I guess you know the sale to Mark Walter really was but like in in in terms of the names inside the organization this really is I think the the the last bit of second to last bit depending on when you think Genie is going to be done but the you know the sort of second to last bit of housekeeping um buskeeping and the the bus area. Yes. Buskeeping. Um because like you say, those guys were the the the the architecture was that they would eventually take over the basketball side of things. Um and so obviously that is not going to happen and you know it became much easier to move them out of the organization once um the sale to Mark Walter went through. Plenty to talk about here in just a moment. 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And Rob in my view is able to sort of consolidate power, which is essentially what they had been doing. If you believe Jesse Boss, you know, from his comments to Dan Wiki at the Athletic, they had been sort of frozen out of the operation over the last couple years anyway. So basically, you’re taking that department, rolling it into um you know, sort of the the oversight of Rob Pelinka more directly, getting his guys into there, and you know, ultimately he’ll be responsible for that department, which by the way is probably how it needs to work. Whether they got there through a good process or things have been taking place over the last couple years in a good way is a different question. But, you know, you can’t have distance, which what seems to be a problem between and and a rivalry between, you know, different factions inside your basketball operation. Yeah. I mean, in this conversation with the Athletic, Jesse Bus was asked today being the day you were fired, you didn’t speak to Jeanie or GM Rob Pelinka. Did they give you an explanation today from Jesse Bus? No, I haven’t spoken to either of them in 5 months. the Athletic. Do you remember why Jesse Bus? Yes. Jeanie informed me that there would be a vote on the sale of the team. And with Rob, he just informed me of who we would be drafting, which is pretty consistent with how it’s gone over the last couple years, which in and of itself, we will get into that. How I mean, look, how the setup of this will work in terms of a flowchart remains to be seen. I I think your envisioning of it may be correct. It may be structured differently, but you brought up the point about the waring factions, and the truth is that is something that can happen whether it’s a scouting department that is run by Jesse Bus, a scouting department that is run by whoever is brought in by Mark Walter, Genie Bus, and perhaps Rob Pelinka working in unison or whatever. these waring factions will take place if ultimately the people highest in charge allow them to happen. And if you listen to, you know, the opinion of Jesse bus, it very much sounds like part of the reason this has happened is not just because of Rob Pelinka, who we’ve talked about for years, excels at managing up and consolidating power. It’s also happened because Genie has allowed it. And Jeanie’s entire time, frankly, with the organization has involved a lot of infighting and factions one way or another, going back to when she and Jim Bus were constantly at odds. So, obviously, the people that get brought in, and you and I both think it’s going to be a much larger, more robust, more manpower scouting department, which was needed even if Jesse bus stayed on. It’s been well known across the league that the Lakers were very sparse in this department. But ultimately the backbiting and the infighting and things like that will stop happening when the people ultimately highest in charge say no more. Yeah. And you know this is something that Magic Johnson referred referenced you know when he was on his way out the door that there’s and also one of the backbiters, right? No question. like magic was hardly and I don’t want to make it I I’m not inside enough to know like to say it’s e it it is easy it is fun it is tempting because I think you know Lakers fans especially you know are inclined in this direction to just say ah there he goes again it’s it’s Rob again it’s genie again and like I don’t I I I’m sure there is a role that was played here by Jesse and um by um Joey And you know, Magic referred to it like these are these are guys who wanted influence and a bigger role. And this goes back to when Magic was was part of that front office and a dynamic that he recognized. But what you know the thing that it just while they were owners, it just wasn’t going to work in the same way. The minute that leverage was sort of taken away or that status was taken away, um they got their payout, but they were much closer to employees at that point um than they are owners um then, you know, a move like this became more inevitable. the the two of them started uh essentially what a venture capital firm too around sports that some people saw as like kind of a a precursor to them being either forced out of the organization or leaving themselves. A sign they knew it could be coming at the very least. But the part that I find most interesting about this, and you’re right, we’ll see what happens from a an org structure standpoint, but I assume for the time being, Rob Pelink, I don’t think is going anywhere. And, you know, they’ll build this larger scouting department. Even if you think like, you know, sort of look to the Dodgers as the template, the Dodgers kept Ned Kleti for a couple years before moving on to their, you know, Andrew Friedman and 700 GMs that they brought in to work under him. the it it is telling to me though um and ultimately regardless of who you side with a sign that a change needed to be made that even Thursday when they were fired they didn’t talk to Jeie and they didn’t talk to Rob it was the CFO as it was reported that actually let both of these guys go. It’s also if your sister and the head of basketball operations aren’t even going to speak to you in person to do this, then the relationship is such that a change needs to be made. Well, it’s also really striking that Joey and Jesse Bus told ESPN in a statement, “We are extremely honored to have been part of this organization for the last 20 seasons. Thank you to Lakers Nation for Laker Nation for embracing our family every step of the way. We wish things could be different with the way our time ended with the team. At times like this, we wish we could ask our dad what he would thought, what he would think about it all. Get into that later. But it’s also very striking that I can’t read the statement from the Lakers because it doesn’t exist. And these are two guys who forget the fact that they are related to Jeanie. Like they’re Jean’s brothers. They’ve been with the organization for like a couple decades. like the fact that there is no statement from the organization. Could this have been organized so they you know guys why don’t we figure out a way for you to you have this new business you why don’t we leave as opposed to us firing you or whatever. I I just mean I just mean it speaks to what you were talking about, the impasses in these relationships and and the dysfunctionality that you’re not having a statement for two longtime employees who also happen to be your brothers and part owners of the team. It it speaks to something else you and I have always talked about for years that there needs to be more people in high places in this organization that Genie does not have a personal relationship with. It’s been too insulated. Everybody has been too close and they they need some degree of neutrality in that building desperately. I I don’t know. I I I think people should be careful not to read too much into this as a Mark Walter is ex you know more reporting will come out and all these other things but I I I the one thing I’m fairly comfortable in saying is this I believe that over one thing that Mark Walter probably wants in this organization is fewer buses like it’s just for the reasons you’re kind of talking about there it need the changes needed to be made. And I think right now he’s ultimately like I’m going to over time bring in all of my own people anyway. I’m doing the the the due diligence and all that. It sort of doesn’t matter the order in which people depart. We just need to start making organizational and structural changes. And I think this is is part of that. And so, um, you know, they’re down to one, and we’ll see exactly how much daytoday power, um, Genie influences over in in a way that would be different than another person who runs the business side of the operation. We’ll see that over time. But next, Andy, uh, more pointed comments from Jesse Bus. Locked on Lakers is brought to you by prize picks. Every day we make decisions. Some of them involve firing your siblings. But on prize picks, being right can and I wish I could do that. Being right can actually get you paid. Don’t miss the excitement of this football season, basketball season with prize picks where it is. I’d send the CFO where it is good to and you know what one fewer conversation a day I can have with you. Beautiful. Playing prize picks is a fun simple way to add more excitement to football. 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Uh, where it seems to drop off is the, uh, Jaylen Hood Shafino draft. Uh it was very interesting uh to me that when uh Jesse Bus was talking about when this distance began to develop between him and Joey and the organization, the rest of the organization, I should say, he said, “Oh, before the 2023 draft subtext there, that wasn’t our call. That was Rob.” Um and again, we’re talking about a guy just got fired. more again more reporting will reveal you know who did what and this and that and influence there but Jesse understands where the criticism is coming from oh you guys blew the last two drafts oh no we didn’t um we being the royal you me and my department we didn’t draft Jayen Hood Shafino Rob Pelinka drafted Jaylen Hood Shafino that is very clear from what Jesse was saying or Maxwell Lewis or Dalton connect if you’re not happy with Bronny James having a roster spot. That was a call made way above our heads. I’m just talking about the entirety of the last two years, which I think is seen by most people as the weakest part of their tenure. They’re also saying this is the part or Jesse saying this is the part where we have been the least involved. Judge for yourself. Yep. I um I think that is is is part of it and I think you it was interesting you know they stuck up for the guys that they found um whether you’re talking about somebody like Caruso or Austin Reeves or even somebody like Ruie Hachimura who they traded for and developed you know really kind of turned him into something that was more fully realized than what he was in Washington and and that is something that really jumped out at me from this athletic report two different paragraphs. The Lakers are off to an 11-4 start this season, tied for third place in the Western Conference. Their best start since the 2021 season. Some of the players whom the Bus brothers helped land, chief among them, Austin Reeves and Brew Hachimura, have played pivotal parts in the strong start. The article later says from Jesse Bus, quote, I don’t think it’s bittersweet because first and foremost, I’m a Lakers fan. even if they’re not part of the organization in any capacity, I’m always going to root for this team. And obviously, I root for, you know, players that Joey and I had a part in bringing in the team, you know, such as Austin and Ruie. Austin, the one is the one that everyone will automatically connect to the scouting report and the scouting department because that’s their job to go find players. Whether you’re talking about first round draft picks, second round draft picks, undrafted, whatever, this is what they do. but they are also a part of scouting around the league for trade possibilities, figuring out how player X could fit into what you do. Our everydayers will know, I’ve talked a lot about how Ruie can be seen as a developmental win for this organization because if you remember his reputation from the Wizards, he was seen as an underachiever and a guy that really just wanted to score and that was really it. He didn’t play with fire, didn’t play with passion, unfocused, all of that stuff. His stock was pretty low when the Lakers traded for him. But where this gets connected back to Jesse and Joey, at least in theory, is those guys help identify the players that Rob would look to trade for in the in the first place. Maybe some guys who the stock may be too down on. And I think what Jesse is saying in so many words is If you think that Rob Pelinka landed on Rui Hachimura as a target just by himself, think harder. Yeah, I think that is very much what he’s saying. 100%. And you know, just for to to kind of let people, you know, people may not know like if you go to an NBA game and you sit in the media section, you might be sitting next to a bunch of lead scouts and sometimes they’re there to literally scout the opposition to create your It’s really cool. it, you know, if especially if they’re willing to talk to you just about basketball, you can learn a ton. Um, but you know, you get there and you’re you’re talking to these, you know, and they’re there to both scout the other teams, so provide an advanced report. These are the teams that are coming to play us in the next couple weeks, whatever it might be. Um, but they’re also, like you said, they’re there to um to to potentially identify players that, you know, you might want to consider, you know, looking at. Let’s let’s pull up some film and see if this guy would be a good fit. Um the other part of this though that is um striking is you know Jesse when he was talking about kind of bitterness what’s next um all of these other things he he talked you know this was in the context of being asked by Dan Wiki about kind of the family business aspect of it which is like we say pretty much gone now because even Jeanie, while she is still um the most prominent member of the bus family, is not in control of what’s going on. She has a big voice. She does things on a day-to-day basis, but there is, you know, regardless of what you think the the d there is ultimately somebody above her who owns the team and makes decisions. So, she’s an employee at this point, uh, with employee with a lot of stake, but an employee. Continue. I’ve got thoughts on this, but continue. The question from Dan to to Jesse about, you know, the team, you know, not being a family business anymore. He said this, “I hope going forward that Mark, meaning Mark Walter, can kind of bring a lot of what he brought to the Dodgers because I think if the vision I think if the vision more or less is the same from what I’ve seen over the last 10 years, then it necessarily isn’t always going to lead to the success that Lakers fans have become accustomed to when my dad ran the operations and owned the team. believe the technical term for that, Andy, is shots fired. I mean, that’s pretty that is pretty stark. And again, you’re talking about a guy who just got fired. Sure. So, disgruntled employee caveats. Disgruntled siblings. Sure. That is a major shot at Rob and for that. I was going to say it’s a shot at both of them. It is a shot at Rob and it’s a shot at Genie. But it is also, if we are being honest, very much in line with what I think the average Laker fan thinks of the time with Jeanie as the ultimate shot caller. Whether you’re talking about pre- Rob Pelinka or in the Rob Pelinka era, that they have been largely underwhelmed and unimpressed by Jeanie as the one ultimately in charge of everything. They are saying if nothing else what a lot of Laker fans are feeling and I think a lot of people who cover the team, cover the league have also felt. But I also think it’s just it’s it’s very clear that Jesse thinks at best Jeie did not put up enough of a fight to try to keep them. At worst, this is actually what Jeanie wanted. Like Jeanie actually wanted them out. And either way, it’s not sitting well with them. And as he says, I wonder what my dad would have thought about all this given that he had this vision. However, I think it’s become very clear, totally unrealistic of all the kids in harmony while having unequal say and unequal uh stature within this organization somehow remaining harmoniously involved with each other. But I wonder how my dad would feel about the fact that Jeanie has now fired all of her brothers. And in the case of me and Joey, the two brothers that were largely seen not just as good at their jobs, but I think if you I think if you asked the average Lakers fan over the course of our time versus Jeanie’s time, who’s actually been better at their jobs? I think the average Lakers fan would say Jesse and Joey. Yeah, it’s it’s there’s a it’s just there’s a lot. Um anyway, there more this is a story that you know I hesitate to uh I I my my goal in this episode was not to sort of waffle on stuff, but I just feel like there’s so many things that you can guess at, but that will ultimately be answered, I think, in more detail over the next couple of weeks. Um anyway, Lockdale Lakers on YouTube is where you can go hang out with over 37,000 highly intrigued fans at this point. Um Lakers do play on Sunday. We’ll bring you that uh more unpacking of what happened on Thursday and what it might mean going forward. Um as the you know the the weeks go on. Uh but next week the Lakers start playing like a real schedule again uh with an opportunity to win some ball games. So we’ll have plenty to talk about. Everybody enjoy your weekend. We’ll see you Monday.

A sleepy Thursday got a LOT busier when it was revealed that Joey and Jesse Buss, who ran the South Bay Lakers and the scouting apparatus, respectively, had been fired by the team.

No announcement was made by the Lakers, and later in the afternoon, Jesse Buss spoke with The Athletic, and didn’t hold back, taking shots at Jeanie Buss and Rob Pelinka, while distancing himself from what are seen as the scouting department’s lesser decisions over the last couple of years.

At least outwardly it reads like the first example of Walter exerting some control over the organizational structure, and while it kinda sucks for the Buss brothers, long simmering tensions between them and the Pelinka/Jeanie half of the basketball operation was simply untenable, and it sounds like they had an inkling this could be coming.

End of an era.

HOSTS: Andy and Brian Kamenetzky

SEGMENT 1: Jesse and Joey Buss, fired!
SEGMENT 2: Why? What went wrong?
SEGMENT 3: What comes next?

04:36 Lakers’ Draft Success & Ownership

07:05 Buss Family Succession Challenges

14:32 Lakers Leadership and Internal Strife

17:52: Leadership Shift Signals Necessary Change

20:58: Leadership Transition and Reorganisation needed

28:44: “Family Business Dynamics Shift

30:53: “Criticism of Jeanie Buss”

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