So, the president of the Lakers — the one who once posed in Playboy and dated the head coach — created a stir last week by firing her brother, who had helped prepare for his job as the head of basketball operations by training horses.
To replace him, she hired the franchise icon with the incandescent smile whose first day on the job last Tuesday represented the start of his experience as a basketball executive. His first move was to hire a general manager whose primary qualification seems to be that he was the agent of another Lakers icon, the one with the killer scowl.