Yes radio. I'm Jim Bast Well he orchestrated the late show on the court will now try to show the Lakers how to win again Magic Johnson named the team's new president of basketball operations in the same day g.t. Bus the Lakers president fires both g.m. Mitch Kupchak and her brother the executive vice president of basketball operations Jim Buss hears magic on getting the new gig we've got some really good talented young players and we just got to keep building the thing this is not a quick turnaround we've got to build it and so that's my job is to get to organization moving in the right direction from the top all the way down and that's what I'm going to do one of the 1st moves Mark Stein reporting agent Robert Zoellick I expected to be hired as the Lakers new g.m. He of course was the agent for Laker legend Colby Bryant in the 1st deal the Magic Johnson era has come with l.a. Sending Lou Williams to the rockets for Corey Brewer and a 1st round pick college basketball night Bryant Baylor gets 21 Jonathan Molly and topping Oklahoma 60 to 54 on number 11 Kentucky a 7262 winner over Mizzou Florida's 198166 pass South Carolina night on ice had the Canadians giving Claude Julien his 1st win behind the bench in a shootout taking the Rangers 3 to 2 have out the night for Jonathan Tevez a 5 point evening including ad trick Chicago wins Minnesota 53 leave silver the Jets 54 in overtime to spike 2 goals from Patrick line and expose the Sixers and temper wolves are all rumored to be getting in the mix people want to stay and be in trade get my coolies on the move to molecular joins with the biggest wins the mike in my sixty's going on the s.p. And radio and p.s.p. And t.v. . Sports. Coverage on e.s.p.n. Bakersfield is like being all alone with your girlfriend we're all over it e.s.p.n. Bakersfield 12 30 am 981 f.m. . It's 1st and last my job is to get this organization moving in the right direction from the top all the way down and that's what I'm going to do. His basketball active and his ability to to build a team construct a team that remains questionable but this is a guy who's brokered big time deals so I don't have any doubt that he is going to be able to work the phones he's going to have good relationships that sort of. For magic I think one place that's going to help is the comparison is constantly going to come right now because of how public things have been to Phil Jackson and what's gone on with the Knicks right there and when you've got that as the measuring stick I feel like at this point you're coming into it with a leg up already because people are already willing to give you the benefit of the doubt compared to the Nick with Robin Lundberg before we get to the ramifications of Matt Johnson and what kind of job he's going to do and what it means for the future the Lakers I did say something he needs bus in the span of a few weeks got rid of her fiance and her brother that's pretty cold blooded and Mike goalie Jr Yeah she's against her like a real in a real life gangster Jeanie Buss So a lot of street cred for her what she can walk out the around the streets of Los Angeles with her chest puffed up knowing that she's not to be trifled with. And the Los Angeles Lakers are now under the control of Magic Johnson and Jeanie Buss I guess that like sort of a tag team as well as sports super agent Rob who comes in as general general manager and the one thing we know all this is guess who sort of untouchable in all this Jeanie Buss come on down and guess who's excited about it Stephen a smith he certainly. Got. The love Lakers have just announced minutes ago during the commercial superrich that. It's not. Just the. President up the ball up the right for the love just like now here's the question should you be that excited about it like Magic Johnson very well liked very well respected smart bright dude legendary player all those things you heard in the rejoin I have no doubt about his ability to handle the diplomatic aspects of the job but is that sort of reaction simply based on the fact that he's Magic Johnson simply based on the fact that that he's famous and he's known in Beloved to Lakers fans I think it's partly that but I think it's also the fact that he's not Jim Buss anymore which did to me seemed like as much of a driving force behind that Stephen a rant it's maybe the best showing someone out of l.a. Rant we've seen out of Stephen a since Mike my favorite of all time the Kwame Brown rant right there which I was hoping for some slight nod for from Stephen a right there but I think that has as much to do with it just understanding the direction this franchise had gone since that Kobe Bryant deal that really set this thing careening off a cliff and the change in direction this means now for the Lakers Jeanie Buss was very adamant in support of the Kobe Bryant deal and to me that the one. Piece of this whole puzzle that I'd be concerned about is Mitch Kupchak because that deal if he was that the general manager at the time and it was from above his head that's the one that's the one that put the Lakers in this mess recall going on was 35 years old when the game that you know he hadn't stepped back on the court from a Killie's rupture surgery yet when they gave him that deal and everything that's happened since then I think is a result of that because you're not bringing in Magic Johnson simply to replace Jim Buss the whole house was clean including Kupchak who object to fully their very good job as Lakers g.m. We had a couple Lakers callers in the 1st hour of the moaning that the Chris Paul trade whether or not that would have worked he is the one that swung that trade the n.b.a. Knocked down but aside from big name acquisitions and all that which the Lakers seem to be obsessed with and I'll get to in a 2nd just look at the facts for n.b.a. Titles 20012000 through 200-2010 under Mitch Kupchak 12 playoff appearances he took over in the 200-2001 season so really they made the playoffs essentially every season up until the last few years when that Kobe deal went into place and a 552 win percentage good for 5th best in the n.b.a. Over you know a 17 year span and since that deal sent them careening off a cliff the only team with a worse when percentage than them over the last 4 years has been the Sam Hinkie trust the process Philadelphia 76 ers and what that deal did was take a sledgehammer to the foundation that the Lakers had right because not only were you not acquiring anything new not only were you hamstrung financially by that but the development of your younger players took a hit because Colby was Kobe Bryant and demanded the ball the way he did and controlled things the way he did he was terrible he was a terrible basketball player the last couple years of his career he what what and not only was he terrible just as far as what he gave you on the court but he hamstrung the development of anything that could have been considered young talent coming. For the Lakers so you ruin the foundation for your team going forward and that's what Magic's tasked with doing now as much as we're going to talk about magic being a great name to brings in guys in Free Agent meetings and may help you Lou are back your top free agent targets in the offseason Magic Johnson is going to be judged by if he's able to refill the cracks in the foundation of the Lakers franchise right now that Byron Scott Coby connection was just really bad for them and I mention what you're hinting at too you're never going to have growth with Kobe around not only was he not a good player he still was Kobe Bryant thought he was Kobe Bryant he's upright do which always puzzled me that he played basketball the way he did the last several years of his career which I thought was kind of discreet will go the way he played out there but it did hamstring the Lakers in all the moves they're going to make Now they were still bad they still gotten some young pieces but none of those young pieces I don't think at least looking what we've seen is a sure fire going to turn into the next guy who's going to be a Kobe Bryant or a Magic Johnson for that franchise and they seem to be hunting that player they seem to be obsessed with stars and I know it's Los Angeles glitz and glamor and Jack Nicholson and and all that stuff but every single year it feels like we're going into a summer and we talk about the Lakers as a possible destination for teams and the reason people say it is because well it's the Lakers it's Los Angeles is showtime you're not going to get any big name free agents that way so I think if they made this hire based on the fact that he's Magic Johnson and he's going to bring in free agents I think that's a mistake players love and respect Magic Johnson but players want to win and they're going to go to the situation we just saw Kevin Rudd go to Golden State for crying out loud right I mean the player is going to go to the situation that they think gives them the best chance to advance their basketball career we're past the time where I think they're just going to be wooed by the the. Tinseltown they are but I still think there is value in Magic Johnson it from a basketball sense right there and saying all right this is a guy who's done it at the highest level who understands exactly what I want to get out of a basketball career and magic is going to put an arm around those guys and say I can take you there I've got the vision for this team and that's what Magic's talked about in everything he's come out and said which in Magic Johnson fashion like we've seen from his Twitter account is saying a lot without saying very much but still made it very clear that he's going to set the culture he's going to set this winning Stanger and that's what he's going to sell to these guys I have a plan I see you as part of my plan and I understand as a player as a businessman how to take you there and how to advance your basketball career and then oh by the way on the back and I can show you how to be pretty good at life outside of the court in an area where you're going to have a huge chance we know market matters a little bit less in the in the more globalized world that we live in now but it can still help you in Magic's the guy around l.a. 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Is cha cha ching or something I thought I thought about it 1st 2nd I wasn't really sure what to do with this one so I'm yeah yeah Keith does not have a future that the no I tell you you don't want to you want to pass Keith Yawk scored to too often if you're at a party right there you're going to go in directions you're not ready for just like you grab his phone and turn the Bluetooth off just in case there's any Bluetooth connected devices that he might be able to stream his stuff to yeah I'm not going to I'm not going to let you hijack my. I experience on that one right there and risk whatever that song was coming on at my function will make that straight talk Brucie by straight talk while his best phones best networks half the cost never let Keith control the music straight talk wireless nationwide coverage on America's largest and most dependable networks Magic Johnson talked a lot yesterday to $710.00 e.s.p.n. L.a. On everything involved with the Los Angeles Lakers including exactly what his job will be we've got some really good talented young players and we just got to keep building and I think this is not a quick turnaround we've got to build it. So that's my job is. Going to win in the right direction from the top all the way down and that's what I'm going to do well you know it's the right thing to say right of course on having organizational clarity and hiring the right people we'll see if the sports agent who's coming in to be the general manager we obviously know he's going to have the connections to do it Magic Johnson has the Grob a toss around the league to me the most important job for Him 1st though it's not free agency it is to be as bad as possible as quickly as possible which isn't that hard with the Lakers because he can talk about young talent but overall they're not that talented as a roster and they are bad and they need their pick to be in the top 3 or else it goes to Philadelphia and the best chance for him and for them to get to where they want to be is to actually land that star player in the draft Yeah there's just one problem happy you're not any good so that's you're right that's going to come pretty naturally to them at this point but it's to have that foresight going forward of Ok if that still benefits you next year if that's still something that can come around and we're going to have to wait and see you know with picks and everything what they're going to need going forward but is magic going to go into this with a plan basketball wise like that not just agency not just react like we look at the situation and wonder how much of this move was just reactionary from the Lakers part. Versus a plan of making sure that this was going to be the Met role magic was brought in to do from the start here as early as he was so you worry about all those things right now because listen we're going to talk about magic business Accu man we're going to talk about magic is as a former Lakers great in a guy that understands winning but the day to day operations portion of basketball are still going to be very new to him from this side of things and so to me it all comes down to his magic going to have the ability and the humility to delegate where he needs to and let people do their jobs because he's a self admitted control freak he said I don't he didn't get to the places he got into without having that be the case so can he let back on that enough in a place in a job that we know matters a lot to him yet we have no idea how we'll be able to do that I mean he did try his hand at coaching very quickly that was a very quick failure 5 and 11 as a coach if you're looking at failures and Magic Johnson's resume it's probably coaching record in his culture those are the 2 things that populates mind you hope he's not adding a 3rd to complete a triangle often it's like the guy that was rumored to be running the Lakers back before and Phil Jackson is now running the Knicks and that's the the direct comparison with the dynamic here that I find intriguing is the bus thing to me because you have Jeannie and Jim and Jeannie comes and sort of knocks Jim out of the picture and brings in Magic Johnson and the Lakers have been obsessed with landing the star and there's a big part of me that wonders because they couldn't land the star player did they land the star to run the team to make up for it thinking that that solves things because they're the Lakers now they've got Magic Johnson in front they can pray to him around when the press conference and that fixes all that ails them I think a lot of it is a perfect storm too because we know that while their family has been on record that Jim and Jeanie Buss haven't exactly had the most stellar relationship and when you've got Jim going on record a few years ago of his own words saying if we're not into. Ender's in 3 years' time back in 2014 I'll step down in my post he even got an additional year in this conversation it's difficult still to fire a sibling but when all the sudden you get interest from a guy in Magic Johnson who comes here and says I want to embrace this I want to be a part of this franchise that I was basically a beloved some from I mean to their dad he was like another man member in the fault of that family that's how he felt that's what he's indicated so when you've got that guy as all the sudden it convenient out I think it makes it easier for Jeannie to make a move that she had probably put off a little bit too long Let's go next to how about Byron you're on 1st and last go ahead. Yes I would like to talk about the Magic Johnson hiring I think that was a great hire by the Lakers a long time Laker fan and I just think it's I wouldn't go in dividends. And you know to get to trade sort of 1st round picks a little worms and a quiet court room and I just believe in my heart that. Had not been that many and you know but it's going to lead to trade deadline go by and would not have made any moves at all and I can't believe that the