Baxter Holmes

Oh boy, that's a good question.

I think some of the things that you've mentioned in fighting and the palace intrigue has been a defining feature of the, of the Lakers really for some decades, but certainly in the post Jerry bus era, since he passed away in 2013 and the Lakers have been known as a family run organization and so on and so forth.

I've certainly had some people say to me, well, with the sale of,

there is going to be a transition and the Lakers are gonna be brought up to speed in the modern era.

And some of the family drama and these issues are going to be a thing of the past and whatever the Lakers look like in the future, you know, this is certainly a team that's considered the crown jewel of the NBA and has all these advantages and a massive, massive audience and all these things.

Once it's brought up to the modern era speed under Mark Walter,

These things are just going to be a feature of the past and they'll be kind of gone forever.

So I've definitely had some people say that to me, that that's what this will look like moving forward.

But I do think it's important to kind of document how we got to this point.

That's what I tried to set out to do in the story.

Yeah, I mean, look, and to the point you just made, I've certainly had teams around the league say that to me for years.

Like, you know, man, the Lakers have so many advantages, things like that.

But some of the infighting and the dysfunction, you know, they kind of get in their own way, so to speak.

And they're, you know, as you mentioned, once they're in this new era, like, who knows where they could go but look out, so to speak.

Obviously, a lot of people look at the Dodgers and baseball and the NBA are very different, especially in terms of the salary cap.

Yeah.

it's yeah look there's a lot of takeaways that i had but there's one thing that i wanted to mention and it really kind of stayed with me it's a long story but it was about how before jerry bus died in 2013 he mentioned um to and johnny bus told me this that he was concerned about infighting amongst his siblings being an issue after he died and so he got everybody together and said should we just sell now and get it over with

And they agreed not to, but his fears ultimately proved correct.

Like there were various chapters of this moving forward, certainly behind some of it publicly, some of it privately.

But, you know, when the ink was dry, some of those feelings still exist.