Jeanie Buss Quotes

Jeanie Buss

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : September 26, 1961

It's nice to be able to go back and reflect and see how much my dad meant to people.

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Any free agent that would be afraid to play with Kobe Bryant is probably a loser, and I'm glad they wouldn't come to the team.

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I can't tell you how many letters I get from grandmothers who say, 'It's the only thing I can talk to my 15-year-old grandson about.' The Lakers are more than just a basketball team to this city. They're part of this community.

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That's what people don't understand, that in the NBA these are the best 450 players in the world, in the game of basketball, are in the NBA.

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When it comes to major decisions in any area of the organization, I like to get the blessings of the shareholders - of which my siblings are the majority - and build a consensus even if it isn't something that all of them agree on.

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I think as long as you have Kobe Bryant on your team, anything can happen in the playoffs.

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Even before my dad passed away, people tried to buy the Lakers. Sony tried in the 1980s. People have always wanted to buy the Lakers. They're not for sale.

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The teams that use tanking as a strategy are doing damage. If you're in tanking mode, that means you've got young players who you're teaching bad habits to. I think that's unforgivable.

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The Lakers have been part of the process of revitalizing downtown L.A. That's what my dad's passion was. He loved to win, but he loved this city. He wanted this city to be proud of its team.

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In my position, I can make changes. I can make changes across the entire organization. If John Ireland doesn't do his job, in his radio broadcast play-by-play, then we would make that change. If the Laker Girls drop down in caliber and couldn't do a dance number, then we'd make changes there.

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I think the Lakers are a legacy franchise. Players know when they come here, this is the ultimate platform.

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I don't want to see Kobe Bryant ever leave. If he was 100 years old and still playing, I'd be happy.

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But I don't look forward to the day that Kobe Bryant's not in purple and gold.

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We understand the realities of the sports world. Take Shaq for example, he was traded from here and went on to several other teams after that. But once he was retired, he asked us to retire his jersey. He wanted to be remembered as a Laker.

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Who wouldn't want to own the Lakers?

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There's no crying in basketball!

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I'm a 55-year-old woman; I'm not, like, one of the Kardashians. I'm not that interesting.

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For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.

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I think you can tell by the people who surround me the type of person that I am, and the people I rely on in my close circle are trusted, respected, experienced.

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People didn't even know where the Lakers' training center was, because we didn't have a flagpole to say, 'This is our home.' We were kind of hidden in the back of the L.A. Kings' practice facility.

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