Columnist Contemplates Belittled Lakers Scout 'Chaz the Bartender'

Is it a good thing or a bad thing when a profile of key members of the current Lakers management team sounds more like a logline for an upcoming episode of HBO’s horse track series Luck? We’re betting the latter.

In a column today entitled “Setting the Record Straight on Chaz the Scout,” author and hoopshype.com contributor Roland Lazenby outlines how current Lakers scion-exec Jim Buss first met team scout Chaz Osborne at the track. From there, the relationship progressed to a point where Buss made the San Diego-residing Osborne one of the Lakers three current talent scouts.

But

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