The chaos that was the Los Angeles Lakers' season reached a fitting apex Tuesday that seemed more reality TV than reality. A day that started as a welcome end to a disastrous season that saw dreams of a championship foundation built around James devolve into a lottery-tanking nightmare was thrown into tumult overdrive when president of basketball operations and Lakers legend Magic Johnson preempted the season finale by abruptly announcing his resignation in an impromptu news conference. Magic Johnson threw a chaotic Lakers season into overdrive on Tuesday.