Pelinka and Jeanie want Magic to be the fall guy to excuse their stupidity/inaction.
Magic wasn’t the GM he was the team President. Team President’s delegate responsibilities they don’t have to be working 12 hour days.
The only thing Magic did wrong was he didn’t tell Jeanie in private the problems with Pelinka when they went to dinner weeks ago and he went on ESPN the exact day they were announcing the new coach.
However Magic doesn’t owe Jeanie telling her Pelinka was a snake/two faced he didn’t want to deal with the politics of the job.
Magic didn’t leave the organization screwed. They didn’t make the playoffs this year because LeBron got hurt and missed 17 games.
He didn’t tie up cap space. He signed veterans to one year deals.
Why does Magic get the blame and not Pelinka for letting Julius Randle and Brook Lopez go?
Pelinka owns more of this mess than the spin coming out.
Jeanie didn’t give Magic the power to fire Luke Walton.
Magic was getting credit for his direction last year from Ramona.
The unexpected deals that went down after landing LeBron James are part of Lakers president Magic Johnson's plan to support the team's new star and his changing game.
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Now he screwed the team according to her when he did no such thing. The owner is allowing dysfunction and the GM is two facing Magic. I know you aren’t blaming him but Lakers fans should realize the problem isn’t Magic but because they are fans of the team he gets the blame when he leaves the team.
Jeanie and Pelinka are the problems. Other agents hate Pelinka and Jeanie doesn’t make her own decisions she asks everyone to be involved and then goes with that.