{"id":311255,"date":"2025-11-27T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311255\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:59:07","slug":"youve-said-the-lakers-threatened-you-with-a-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311255\/","title":{"rendered":"You’ve said the Lakers threatened you with a lawsuit \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve said the Lakers threatened you with a lawsuit while you were writing this. Were you surprised? Yaron Weitzman: I assume no one’s ever going to want to participate in anything, and that’s fine, especially in today’s world. I was surprised at how concerned it became about the book. I still don’t know why it happened. They hired this defamation lawyer before they saw any fact-checking. They might have thought they knew what the book was going to be, or they might have heard fourth-hand, but I questioned I was asking people, but they hadn’t seen anything. They had no idea, and they hired this lawyer before that, and I was hearing that Jeanie (Buss) was worried about the book before they saw anything. I genuinely don’t know why. I have some theories, but I genuinely don’t know why. And the other part that’s weird is I met Jeanie twice off the record, we did some informal chats, fact-checking, things like that<\/a>. I’m only sharing that we met off the record because she’s talked about it in interviews. When I met with her the first time, she was not into the idea. I remember something along the lines of like, I don’t see why there needs to be a book on this, why is this a book. I don’t begrudge her. That’s also not her call to make.<\/p>\n

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