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The Lakers are my life.
I have a lot of role models.
There's no crying in basketball!
I'm at the top of the food chain.
Who wouldn't want to own the Lakers?
Dr. Buss set the bar high for the Lakers.
I wanted to get married. That's who I am.
Being able to make people laugh is a powerful tool.
The Lakers have figured out how to win in every era.
I've always said that our fans are our most important asset.
I took a stand-up comedy class because I'd always wanted to.
Phil is always a quotable guy. He keeps everyone entertained.
To have Kobe retire as a Laker, that to me is really important.
There's the gold standard, and then there's the purple-and-gold standard.
I want people to know that I don't take for granted what's been given to me.
For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.
But I don't look forward to the day that Kobe Bryant's not in purple and gold.
From the time I was in elementary school, I wanted to work in the family business.
It's nice to be able to go back and reflect and see how much my dad meant to people.
My dad empowered me and made me believe I could accomplish whatever I set my mind to.
I can't tell you the difference between the triangle offense and the Princeton offense.
Any time you have a change of leadership in an organization, everything kind of shifts.
Kobe is worth every penny, and I'd never had any doubt that he'd contribute to this team.
I think as long as you have Kobe Bryant on your team, anything can happen in the playoffs.
I don't want to see Kobe Bryant ever leave. If he was 100 years old and still playing, I'd be happy.
I think the Lakers are a legacy franchise. Players know when they come here, this is the ultimate platform.
The team will always be bigger than any one owner, or any one player, or one coach. The team is always first.
Did you know I once tweeted at Red Bull, 'Would you ever consider making a sugar-free, caffeine-free Red Bull?'
There's a whole other chapter of my life where I was, for 15 years, the significant other of coach Phil Jackson.
Any free agent that would be afraid to play with Kobe Bryant is probably a loser, and I'm glad they wouldn't come to the team.
I have a great relationship with all my brothers. I've got three other ones. There's four boys and two girls. It's a family business.
I think that when Magic decided that he didn't want to be with the organization any longer in an official capacity that took me off guard.
That's what people don't understand, that in the NBA these are the best 450 players in the world, in the game of basketball, are in the NBA.
I had a tough year, losing my dad. And I really needed to have some quiet time, and not be engaged the way I normally would be with the Lakers.
Everybody will give you a certain amount of respect just because you're the boss' daughter. But if you don't follow through, you lose that pretty quick.
Even before my dad passed away, people tried to buy the Lakers. Sony tried in the 1980s. People have always wanted to buy the Lakers. They're not for sale.
I can't compare myself to Phil Jackson in any way, shape or form. His view on the world and his intellectual approach, I don't have that in common with him.
I think you can tell by the people who surround me the type of person that I am, and the people I rely on in my close circle are trusted, respected, experienced.
You can't just live in the past, peddling the '80s Showtime Lakers, and expect everyone to know what that is. We have many fans who weren't even alive in the '80s.
There certainly was a time when I started when people looked at me as the secretary to Dr. Buss. Being the boss' daughter amongst your peers, you gotta show up every day.
In terms of basketball decisions, I will always defer to Magic. He's brought a vision of the kind of team we're going to build and a vision of what Lakers basketball is going to be.
The teams that use tanking as a strategy are doing damage. If you're in tanking mode, that means you've got young players who you're teaching bad habits to. I think that's unforgivable.
The Lakers have been part of the process of revitalizing downtown L.A. That's what my dad's passion was. He loved to win, but he loved this city. He wanted this city to be proud of its team.
I can't say that I grew up saying, 'Someday I want to be vice president of the Lakers,' because that's not how it happened. I work for our family business, and that happens to be the Lakers.
I really wasn't expecting to fall so hard for Phil. As a matter of fact, when my dad said he was talking to Phil Jackson about him coming to L.A. to coach the Lakers, I tried to argue against it.
People didn't even know where the Lakers' training center was, because we didn't have a flagpole to say, 'This is our home.' We were kind of hidden in the back of the L.A. Kings' practice facility.
I have 100% confidence in Rob Pelinka running our basketball operations. I've always had confidence in Rob. Whatever the speculation is out there, we don't need the outside media to validate what we do.
I get a lot of letters from people saying, 'I want to follow in your footsteps,' and I don't know how to tell people how to follow in my footsteps, because I can't give them the opportunities that I had.
The way my dad set things up was for me to oversee the business side and for my brother to oversee the basketball side. I know my dad felt that was a good system, and that's the system we're trying to make work.
I always tell Phil we're like the party poopers. If we ever get invited to a player party, between the two of us, we're like the downers. Like, 'Put down that beer!' Or, 'Should you really be eating those nachos?'