“Luke has always been somebody that — he came to the Lakers as a rookie,” Buss said of a team that featured Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal. “The last year of Shaq and Kobe. He kind of bridged two Lakers teams in the Shaq-Kobe era and what you would call the Kobe-Pau [Gasol] era. He is somebody I think who doesn’t even realize what a natural he is and that leadership that he has in terms of getting people connecting with people in all ages. I think he’s done a terrific job.”

Source: Los Angeles Times April 04, 2019 02:19 UTC