A SPRINGTIME SNIPPET

Lakers President, Jeanie Buss is continuing her

father's legacy. She is worried that LA's most

successful sports franchise seems far removed

from when she can add another NBA Champion-

ship trophy on her office shelf. She states that

her Dad did not tolerate losing very well and he'd

be anxious to make moves to get us back into

contention. Well, there are reasons now that go

beyond any debilitating loss. Fans frustrations too

enters into this. Buss also feels the pressure.

Then too, she does not want to let her late father

down.  With Jerry Buss' passing in 2013, the Lakers

can no longer lean on his comforting presence.

Still, Jeanie Buss maintains she will do her best

within her role for keeping her father's legacy.

Saying, as family, they  are committed to that. Prior

to her father's passing, Jeanie Buss spent 14 

seasons as the Lakers' executive vice president

of business operations.. Jeanie says that her

Dad,  one of a kind, was a visionary and that

she wants to make sure she is continuing to

protect that legacy and move in a direction

that would be what he would want.

Former Laker Steve Nash is enjoying his

retirement but is still continuing as mentor

to Laker Jordan Clarkson. His view of Clarkson

is that he is a great kid and that it has been

fun for him to act as his mentor.  He states that

Clarkson has averaged 15.8 points on 45.8

% shooting with 5 assists and 4.2 rebounds in

32.1 minutes through 38 starts, so has the ingredients

to one day be a terrific NBA player,  sky being the limit.

Both Kupchak and Byron Scott hope that Clarkson

does indeed develop into a leader.

Even though right now, it is not looking too good,

it is no new news that Kobe Bryants'  shoulder

injury caused a lot of concern, but we are being told

that he already is starting to lift weights and seems

to have a full range of motion. Scott says that

Kobe is looking good and he feels that Kobe will

go at this thing real hard this summer to get

himself ready for training camp but hopefully 

he will not overdo.

On a different note, we see that the Oklahoma City

Thunder has fired their coach, Scott Brooks. Brooks 

coached the Thunder for 7 seasons and led the team

to the Western Conference finals 3 out of 4 years.

Roles are never too secure are they?

Winds out our way for days but today it feels

warmer and sky is sunny,

BABS WELLS