Jeanie Buss speaks: On these Lakers, LeBron, Kobe, AD and fixing a fractured front office – The Athletic

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla..– When the Lakers Anthony Davis buried that buzzer-beater from the left wing in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals versus Denver on Sept. 20, team owner Jeanie Buss was at her Los Angeles-area home more than 2,500 miles far from the NBA bubble.
Because moment, however, she may also have become part of the group that mobbed him at center court. Or, better yet, back at the Staples Center throughout typical, non-COVID times.
” He made that shot, and I blurt a scream that I didnt even know I was capable of,” Buss, who is bubble-bound this week to see her Lakers go back to the Finals for the very first time considering that 2010, stated on an hour-long see on the “Tampering” podcast episode of “The Athletic NBA Show” on Monday. “My pet dog just took a look at me like, What is happening right now?”.
Now picture the feelings that swelled within her when Davis offered such a fitting …