Jeanie Buss explains why she fired her brother: ‘We were making a nice home at the bottom of the standings’

The Buss family and the Los Angeles Lakers have had an incredible run together. Since Jerry Buss bought the team, the Lakers have won a jaw-dropping 11 NBA titles. However, that does not mean that there have not been bumps along the way. In fact, Jeanie Buss, the team’s current majority owner, recently discussed why she made the difficult decision to fire her brother Jim in 2017. Prior to his firing, Jim Buss was the team’s executive vice president of basketball operations. However, after multiple losing seasons, Jeanie Buss had to make the decision to let him go. “The way…