Lakers proprietor Jeanie Buss just lately recalled the terrible second a fellow NBA proprietor grabbed her bottom throughout her first NBA board of governors assembly in 1995.
“As we have been ready, taking a break from the assembly and all people’s in line for the buffet for lunch throughout the lunch break, any person grabs my ass,” Buss stated on In Depth with Graham Bensinger. “I flip round and I used to be so shocked. Nevertheless it was like, once more — if I didn’t have the arrogance that my dad put in me, that was a second the place I needed to shrink and to be nothing, that I’d have, you recognize, gotten sick and stated, ‘I gotta go.’ Do I actually belong right here? , I’m simply actually not one of many group, like I’m been singled out.
“It made me actually self aware.”
Buss turned proprietor of the Lakers when her father Jerry Buss handed away in 2013.
This isn’t the primary time she has spoken out concerning the incident, as she revealed it in her 2010 ebook Laker Lady.
She defined to Besinger how she wasn’t going to let the incident slide.
“I simply gave him a grimy look, like again off,” Buss stated. “And I stayed within the room. I noticed that I may not be capable of achieve the respect of the prevailing possession teams. However all people that got here after me, I may assist them within the room as a result of they’d be the brand new particular person.”
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