This is the definition of Lakers exceptionalism, and it is hilariously hypocritical. Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss has followed up her performance at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where she had the misfortune of calling the very real and accurate reports of her team's trade offers for Anthony Davis "fake news" this past weekend, by accusing rivals of planting those stories in an attempt to disrupt the chemistry in L.A., according to The Athletic's Shams Charania: Buss believes her words and the message that was delivered to her, feeling rival teams placed stories to go public in order to hurt the Lakers' chemistry, sources told The Athletic.