Lakers in a can’t win situation with Magic Johnson

We’ve said it before, but the Lakers are a mess. Some of this is their own doing. More than some, actually.

When you empower people who have poor reputations around the league, allow the information vacuum to be filled by people who do not have final decision making authority, or generally make suspect decisions based on glory long passed rather than with forward-thinking vision and then watch those decisions blow up on you, the scorn you receive is well earned.

This is the bed the Lakers — and by the Lakers, I mean Jeanie Buss — has made and now they must lie in it. That’s how this works.

However, even though mistakes made have real costs how those mistakes evolve and become their own story…