This is on Jeanie Buss. She was warned but refused to listen. With the embarrassments continuing to pile up, what more does she need to see before recognizing that the pals she has empowered to direct the franchise’s future are failing her?



A wasted year of LeBron James, a humiliating and destabilizing bid for Anthony Davis and now, in the latest blow, a coaching search that has seen the Lakers fail to land either of their two primary candidates. Tyronn Lue was the most recent casualty of the Lakers’ dysfunction, as Rob Pelinka couldn’t manage to negotiate a deal with perhaps the only person on earth who both knows how to coach LeBron James and was willing to do it again.



Where do the Lakers go from here? The obvious blueprint has not changed from a month ago when Magic Johnson bailed on the organization minutes before tipoff of the last game of the season. Buss should have hired a president of basketball operations to replace Johnson and allowed...