Buss' father, the deceased Jerry Buss, purchased the Los Angeles Lakers in 1979 for $20 million. Business operations and sports operations in professional sports are quite contrary. On the business operations side, most teams are quite collaborative with each other. If, as Magic claimed, Pelinka was chiding Magic behind his back for not being around, isn't that understandable to a degree? So what are the teaching points about leadership from the Lakers dysfunctional management:

Source: Forbes May 21, 2019 15:33 UTC