With the passing of Dr. Jerry Buss on Monday night, one can only reflect favorably and marvel in hindsightupon how this real-estate businessman transformed the Los Angeles Lakers into one of the largest sports brands in the world over the course of 30 years.
In other words, you have to be careful to pick the ground upon which you fight and in retrospect (hindsight and Monday-morning quarterbacking being both easy and accurate) perhaps the relatively minor sums here were not worth pursuing.