Luke Walton (1 Viewer)

[jlprk]

Smartest thing Buss ever did (other than bang high class models) was hire him to run the Lakers.

Don't give Buss credit for West. Before Buss bought the team in 1979, West had been Laker head coach for 3 years (no slouch...1976-79 record: .589) and then stayed with the organization as King-in-Waiting while Buss and GM Bill Sharman blundered through Coaches McKinney and Westhead. With the Laker bias for hiring famed Laker names, it was inevitable that West would become GM in 1982.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Don't give Buss credit for West. Before Buss bought the team in 1979, West had been Laker head coach for 3 years (no slouch...1976-79 record: .589) and then stayed with the organization as King-in-Waiting while Buss and GM Bill Sharman blundered through Coaches McKinney and Westhead. With the Laker bias for hiring famed Laker names, it was inevitable that West would become GM in 1982.

So, West gets credit for Riley, even though West was an assistant coach at the time that Riley was hired?