The Los Angeles Lakers are taking this lottery season pretty hard. Now that her team has been officially eliminated from the playoffs, despite adding LeBron James over the summer, Lakers owner Jeanie Buss all but conceded that the franchise has lost its luster during a guest lecture in Jeff Pearlman's journalism class at Chapman University, per The Panther Online (via Silver Screen and Roll): "We haven't lived up to the brand that (my father) created, and he created a culture of winning and success," Buss said. The Lakers) were always relevant and they were always in the conversation, and I felt like the team had lost that importance.