Whicker: Every crisis needs a manager, so here’s some advice for the Lakers

Sears Roebuck is disappearing, Oldsmobile is gone, Sports Illustrated gets passed from owner to owner like an offering plate.
When brands fade, they generally keep fading. If you are 18 years old, you were 12 when the Lakers last made the NBA playoffs. Since you were 11, the Clippers have outperformed the Lakers by 155 regular-season wins.
Incompetent play is not the worst problem. The Lakers used to be a mockingly successful mom-and-pop operation, free of the organizational glut that choked oth