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Uncut with Jay Cutler

Jeanie Buss talks about Lakers struggles, growing up in the Showtime Lakers era, conflicts with her brother and originally not wanting to hire Phil Jackson on Uncut with Jay Cutler

Uncut with Jay Cutler

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Society & Culture, Sports, Talk Radio

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jay sits down with the owner and president of the Los Angeles Lakers, Jeanie Buss, and they immediately dive into the struggling Lakers squad in 2021. Plus Jeanie talks about growing up around the Lakers in the 1980s when her father bought the team, how her father was advised NOT to draft Magic Johnson, and how much scouting has developed over the years. Plus Jay explores Jeanie's relationship with her late father, and how their relationship grew as he purchased these LA teams and she learned to lead them. Jeanie also talks about how her father set up the Lakers to be run by both her and her brother, but she had to take action to remove him after seeing how poorly the team was being run. She even jokes that she tried to talk her father out of hiring Phil Jackson, because with big personalities like Shaq and Kobe she thought Phil would ruffle feathers.

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0:00.0

Okay, welcome back. We don't want to show cool guest not really sure why she's doing it. I'm pretty positive. She has better things to do

0:27.9

actually. No, she has better things to do. She's in the middle of an MBA season. She's got a comedy Netflix show. She's got a

0:39.2

woman of wrestling. She's got a tequila. She's got the Lakers to overtake. She's doing it all. Jenny Bus,

0:50.4

owner, operating governor of the Lakers. He's about to join us. Phenomenal human has kind of started at 17 years old.

1:08.4

As a GM of a tennis team, it's kind of worked her way up through the Lakers, worked her way up through business.

1:16.8

Any woman out there take notice. I mean, she shows you exactly what you can do. She runs a group of men

1:27.3

and tells them exactly what to do, which I love. I think it's inspiring. I think it's great.

1:32.7

And she's she's been on it since day one since she said she would want to do this podcast. She sent notes.

1:39.7

She was on 10 minutes in advance before I've been watching the building. And she's she's ready to go. So we're

1:47.0

going to do it and we're going to have some fun with her. We have some questions and we'll see how it

1:52.4

goes. Once again, keep hitting me up about potential guests. We'll do right and wrong. Instagram, Twitter, and we'll keep rolling along.

2:08.4

Here we go. We've got a special guest. Not sure how we got her. Not sure how she makes time.

2:19.1

Jamie, thank you for coming on. Appreciate it. Your trophies in the background look amazing. Like I told you for your your background is far superior to mine.

2:33.0

It's it's called a humble brag, you know, just I don't even have to say anything. Just have them kind of in the background. It for sure.

2:41.6

Absolutely. You guys are the middle of season. How things going?

2:45.4

You know, it's not what we anticipated or planned for, but then again, we haven't been 100% healthy. And that was kind of a risk going into the season with a team that's on the older side.

2:59.9

Yeah, maybe I would say less young than the other teams and older, but you know, we haven't had our complete roster healthy and played together.

3:11.6

So, you know, once we see that, then we really do know what we have. But for right now, it's just it's kind of like up and down right.

3:20.5

And, you know, we're used to that in sports, right? Exactly. And you use the way you just talk about it like you're just such a seasoned vetics. I mean, I think you've you've been in the executive management for I think over 40 years.

3:34.9

Yeah, since I was two, it was really weird to he was I was the first original baby boss, but now seriously my dad bought the Lakers in 1979.

3:46.1

And his first year with the Lakers, he won a championship. So I was a senior in high school. And, you know, it just kind of got in my blood.

3:57.9

And it's it's been a passion for my family for, you know, 40 years over 40 years.

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