Laker daddy’s girl Jeanie Buss recently addressed the rumor that family squabbling has escalated to the point it might prevent Phil Jackson from coming back next season to coach our squad.

“Phil, I don’t think was ready to leave, I wasn’t ready for him to go. There was some tension that is now being repeated in the media. It’s convenient to bring all that up again because Phil is in his last year of his contract and it’s almost like déjà vu, but it’s nowhere near the same situation. I think that while there was some tension back in 2005, there isn’t that tension that exists today.”

“Phil got to come back and on completely different terms than when he left. That was an interesting part of the drama, and so I can see where it’s convenient to bring that up again.”

Laker Goggles:

While the Buss siblings continue to compete tooth and nail with each other for larger pieces of the best tasting pie in all the association, the team has gone back to their complacent and passive ways that got them trounced by the C’s in 2008.

If we can’t repeat this season, the world’s most fortunate heirs will have to add “Championship caliber coach that Kobe approves of” to the top of their off-season to-do list as PJ may likely bounce if he can’t sport the tacky “XI” hat his kids likely made him.