MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — Jeanie Buss doesn't look the part of unforgiving ruler.
The 53-year-old president and governor of the Los Angeles Lakers still has that magnetic way about her, a combination of business sense and beauty that has long since made her one of the most intriguing executives in professional sports. But when it comes to fixing what's broken with her team, to ending this torturous two-year run that began not long after her father and legendary longtime Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss died in Feb. 2013, she's as ruthless as they come.
And with good reason: this isn't how she was raised.