Jeanie Buss brought the hammer down today, firing Mitch Kupchak as GM and relieving her brother, Jim, of his executive vice president role as well. Since hiring Magic Johnson a couple weeks ago as an adviser, this move by the Lakers Governor doesn't come as much of a surprise. Johnson will take as the new president of basketball operations. I'm sure Lakers fans are ecstatic over the move. And analyzing Johnsons tweets referencing basketball moves over the last few years, I can't say I blame them. Just last May, Magic tweeted out in back to back posts that the Lakers should go after Kevin Durant and Lebron James in free agency. Who would ever think that targeting the top two potential free agents would be a sound business strategy? If he suggests to Jeanie Buss that they should place a call to Steph Curry or Blake Griffin this summer, she should double his salary. Who can ever forget his tweet from March 2014 in which he says the only way the Heat or Spurs wouldn't win the Finals that season is if they didn't make it. That's some NBA moneyball type shit right there. The rest of the NBA should take notice, the Lakers are back!
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