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Magic Johnson says he talks to Jeanie Buss ‘almost every day’ and is still focused on helping the Lakers as much as he can

Magic Johnson may have left Staples Center following his impromptu press conference to tell the media he was resigning his post as Los Angeles Lakers president of basketball operations — after telling reporters before he told owner Jeanie Buss, no less — but have we considered the possibility that even though over a week has passed, Johnson never stopped explaining his decision to the press, and is just wandering the streets of Los Angeles to do it instead of roaming the bowels of the arena with the media?

Okay, so that’s probably not what actually happened, but lending credence to the theory is Johnson’s latest interview/ambushing with TMZ, in which he continued to explain his decision to leave, while also confirming that he isn’t totally stepping away:

“No.