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Bill Plaschke: Lakers' messy split with coach Luke Walton reveals why Magic Johnson left too

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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