The #Lakers hired #MagicJohnson as a team advisor this week and I couldn't be more happier. I stated when #JeanieBuss announced she and #PhilJackson's split that it meant that it was time for her to take her rightful place in the Lakers organization. Jeanie Buss has a #JimBuss problem, and Johnson will fix that. She has a Lakers national perception problem, and Johnson can alter that. She’s tired of the losing, and, while the basketball team will remain firmly in the hands of the promising #Lukepm+Walton, the basketball culture will only be strengthened with Magic’s touch. It was written here recently that Jeanie Buss had finally begun pondering a serious spring cleaning of the front office. Spring just arrived early, and Lakers fans should be chirping. “We are thrilled and honored to add Magic’s expertise and abilities, and I look forward to working alongside him,’’ Jeanie Buss said in a statement announcing Johnson’s return. The key to that statement is that she, alone, will work alongside him. Clearly, her brother will not. More than anything, Johnson’s return marks the accelerated end of Jim Buss’ bleak reign as the Lakers’ executive vice president of basketball operations. Jim Buss gave his family a timeline for success that runs out this summer, but it’s hard to imagine him lasting in his current job past the final day of the season. Posted by @theoriginaldatvegasgyrl
