It came as quite a shock to basketball fans when hoop legend Magic Johnson abruptly resigned as president of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Johnson’s shocking departure came earlier this month, now a new report reveals why he quit.
The Emails Blasted His “Poor Performance”
Senior writer and Fox Sports 1 analyst Ric Burcher told the Colin Cowherd show, Johnson was accidentally cc’d in a chain of emails. The emails were between Lakers co-owner Jeanie Buss and general manager Rob Pelinka.
Pelinka and Buss criticized his performance with the team causing Johnson, 59, to relinquish his post. He had taken charge of the franchise just over two years ago.
On Wednesday Burcher brought the “backstabbing” emails to light.
“My understanding is that there were some emails that were exchanged between Rob and Jeanie…about Magic and about what Magic was and wasn’t doing. They were critical emails,” Bucher said on the show.
“And somehow, some way, Jeanie, from what I understand, was CC’ing or blind CC’ing Magic on everything. That was sort of protocol. Standard issue'” he added.
“So, Magic now is seeing emails from Rob to Jeanie that were critical of what he was doing and maybe most important in all this is that there was no indication that Jeanie was backing Rob up in terms of either going to Magic and letting him know this was going on or going back at Rob and defending Magic,” Bucher said on the show.
“When he talked about the backstabbing, to me, my understanding that’s what started it. The fact that Jeanie waved goodbye and said “Thank you for all that you did” was that she didn’t necessarily disagree with what Rob was saying,” Bucher added.
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