Jeanie Buss' pathetic plea to Dwight Howard to stay

[rondohondo]

Lakers executive vice president of business operations Jeanie Buss tweeted that the “Lakers offer 1) best opportunities for your playing & post-playing career 2) have BEST fans 3) I’m here for you #STAYD12.”

That tweet hit at 1:09 p.m. Tuesday, got captured by several websites and got retweeted by several folks. Buss deleted it soon after, on her way to not being in the Lakers’ Tuesday meeting with Howard. Dallas and Houston also are on the woo for Howard.

Can you imagine former Lakers ace general manager Jerry West or Jeanie’s late father, longtime Lakers owner Jerry Buss, doing anything like that even for Kareem or Magic Johnson?

It’s the kind of degradation that could have Jerry Buss spinning in his grave while earning a ghostly laugh from Theodore Lodigensky that such a comedown is the way of all flesh in Hollywood.

Lodigensky is the Czarist Russian general who wound up working as an extra in Hollywood after the Russian Revolution. Lodigensky’s humiliating story wound up filmed as The Last Command with Emil Jannings winning the first Best Actor Oscar for playing the Lodigensky role (and the lead in The Way of All Flesh).

Unfortunately for the Lakers, they’re in this position because current GM Mitch Kupchak is even further from West as a GM than he was from Hall of Famer West as a player. Kupchak didn’t analyze what he was getting in Howard and how he fit with what they had, personally and professionally. He didn’t do what the Heat has done so well (with some exceptions) over the past 17 years.

Which is why one team now puts up billboards celebrating championships and tries to figure out how to stay there and a former champion puts up billboards trying to keep from falling to relevance-only-by-good-name.

From the Miami Herald


Hahaha what a bunch of Fakers, I love LA(to laugh at )

[oldmanspeaks]

Jeannie Buss is the only one of the younger Buss's that has any financial and marketing sense and she knows how much the Lakers need Howard's name to attract fans because it is going to be bad in La-La land with Kobe's health continually going downhill. Her father really gave her the shaft when he gave the reins to her brother when everyone knew she was the brains of the children. I never knew how much of it was naturally her or how much she learned from Jackson but she had an idea of marketing and business. As to her not being there, it is her way of saying "I did all I could so this is not my fault" when things go to crap.

[D Dub]

LA sports talk radio isn't doing em any favors.   Hosts and callers alike running him out town on a daily basis.   No body likes this clown...

No way he resigns with the Fakers.   Only question is if Mitch is smart enough to do a s/t before he leaves for nothing, my guess is no

[indeedproceed]

I don't think there is anything pathetic about it. It's a little out of place, but owners are more and more hands on, and Jeanie Buss cares deeply about the team. It's not like every other owner out there pursuing Deight isn't talking about how their 'door is always open' or whatever.

[ChainSmokingLikeDino]

What? Those quotes are absurd. Why wouldn't you want to reach out in a way you know will get through to the player? Being stoic and oldschool is grand but if it isn't what will sway Dwight Howard what is the point? And, please, offering 17 years of The Heat as the "right way?" Throwing outlandish welcoming parties for their Big Three, catering to their desires, worked. But it is embarrassing for LA? Quit the hypocritical moralizing.

[manl_lui]

Lakers executive vice president of business operations Jeanie Buss tweeted that the “Lakers offer 1) best opportunities for your playing & post-playing career 2) have BEST fans 3) I’m here for you #STAYD12.”

That tweet hit at 1:09 p.m. Tuesday, got captured by several websites and got retweeted by several folks. Buss deleted it soon after, on her way to not being in the Lakers’ Tuesday meeting with Howard. Dallas and Houston also are on the woo for Howard.

Can you imagine former Lakers ace general manager Jerry West or Jeanie’s late father, longtime Lakers owner Jerry Buss, doing anything like that even for Kareem or Magic Johnson?

It’s the kind of degradation that could have Jerry Buss spinning in his grave while earning a ghostly laugh from Theodore Lodigensky that such a comedown is the way of all flesh in Hollywood.

Lodigensky is the Czarist Russian general who wound up working as an extra in Hollywood after the Russian Revolution. Lodigensky’s humiliating story wound up filmed as The Last Command with Emil Jannings winning the first Best Actor Oscar for playing the Lodigensky role (and the lead in The Way of All Flesh).

Unfortunately for the Lakers, they’re in this position because current GM Mitch Kupchak is even further from West as a GM than he was from Hall of Famer West as a player. Kupchak didn’t analyze what he was getting in Howard and how he fit with what they had, personally and professionally. He didn’t do what the Heat has done so well (with some exceptions) over the past 17 years.

Which is why one team now puts up billboards celebrating championships and tries to figure out how to stay there and a former champion puts up billboards trying to keep from falling to relevance-only-by-good-name.

From the Miami Herald


Hahaha what a bunch of Fakers, I love LA(to laugh at )

Miami Herald talking about begging a star to stay?

man that looks familiar

[hwangjini_1]

I guess many folks here are too young to remember our very own red auerbach going on national tv to beg Ralph Sampson to enter the draft so the celtics could pick him.

It was a low point for the celtics.

[Ogaju]

well looks like Ralph should have listened to Red.

[LooseCannon]

It's not pathetic that she is begging Dwight to stay, it's pathetic that a 51-year-old woman is on Twitter.