It was the summer of 2010 and the Lakers were not going to be players in free agency. They had just won their 16th championship, beating the hated Boston Celtics. They had their team. Besides, they had no salary cap space to add a star. Jerry Buss thought about calling James anyway. Over lunch with his kids, he mentioned the idea, offhandedly. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “It’d be good to know that guy,” his son Joey recalled him saying. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “LeBron was always somebody that he was interested in,” said Jeanie Buss. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “It just feels right,” said Jesse Buss, “It feels like, finally. It means a lot since it’s really the first chance since he passed away that it kind of seemed like similar to something he would have done.” (Excerpt via Tania Ganguli | LA Times) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lakers #lakeshow #lalakers #lakersnation #lakersworld16 #lebronjames #jerrybuss #losangeleslakers (at Los Angeles, California)
