/ STAFF WRITER
LOS ANGELES – Say what you will about Jim Buss, but he doesn’t deserve this.
Not to watch every day as his fiercest critic openly campaigns for his job. Not while Jeanie Buss endorses Magic Johnson’s every step by remaining silent. Not while he still has a job to do, even as he must be wondering whether he’s even empowered to do it anymore.
This is death by slow bleed, the sort of torture the Geneva Conventions were meant to eradicate.
Jim Buss has been a flawed executive. He lacks the gravitas that transformed his humble-beginnings father into an icon and has been unable to successfully navigate a modern NBA far more complicated than the one Dr.