When the Los Angeles Lakers revealed that vice president of basketball operations Jim Buss and Mitch Kupchak had been fired in one fell swoop, the only thing that came as a shock was the method and the timing. The writing was on the wall for the tenure of those two when Jeanie Buss brought Magic Johnson back to the franchise as an advisor and he proceeded to go on a media campaign describing how he wanted Jim's job.
Still, firing the Jim Buss and Kupchak just days before the trade deadline in a brief press release that simultaneously announced Magic Johnson as the team's new president of basketball operations was still a shock to the system for fans, media and the NBA community alike.