Jeanie Buss spoke to a handful of reporters about the Luka Doncic trade while promoting a comedy series on Netflix that's loosely based on her life, "Running Point."
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Now streaming on Netflix, the series focuses on Isla Gordon (Hudson), as she’s unexpectedly given control of her family’s basketball team, the Waves. Though a fictional team and story, “Running Point” is loosely based on Lakers president Jeanie Buss.
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Hudson plays a pro basketball team owner in the new Netflix series, which is loosely based on Buss' real story.
If the story sounds strangely familiar, that's because it is actually loosely based on a true story. As it turns out, Isla’s character is inspired by Jeanie Buss, who is president of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers. Like Isla, Jeanie’s family owns the Lakers—and Jeanie actually serves as an executive producer on the series.
The Lakers' trade for Luka Doncic is the kind of move that will shape Jeanie Buss' organization into the future — and it’s the kind of trade she thinks her father would’ve made.
Beyond praising GM Rob Pelinka for how he handled negotiations of the stunning deal that she says would have made her father proud, Buss also credits first-year coach JJ Redick for the job he is
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