Bill Plaschke: Lakers' messy split with coach Luke Walton reveals why Magic Johnson left too
by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
Apr 13, 2019
4 minutes
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LOS ANGELES - Luke Walton, you lucky dog.
In finally getting dumped Friday by the Lakers, their former head coach made his escape like a man staggering up the embankment from a ditch occupied by the twisted metal of steaming wreckage.
Walton gets to walk away from a basketball operation being run by the "backstabbing and whispering" of the widely unpopular and generally unsuccessful Rob Pelinka.
Walton gets to depart a basketball team being run, occasionally, when he feels like it, by distracted Hollywood mogul LeBron James.
Walton gets to separate himself from a franchise being run by
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