Family Business

Grantland, April 2015

The Los Angeles  Lakers are on the verge of completing  their worst season ever — no Kobe Bryant,

almost no promising youth, and little hope for the immediate future. Team president and ultimate boss

Jeanie Buss remains as bright and optimistic as the California sun — but would she fire her brother Jim,

VP of basketball operations, for failing to keep up his end of the bargain? The only thing thicker than

blood is NBA championship gold.

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