Bonnie-Jill Laflin is a scout for the Los Angeles Lakers, a perplexing assignment for a drop-dead gorgeous woman of 32 who played high-school ball, then spent the next decade as an NFL cheerleader, a model, an actress and a sports broadcaster. She landed in the Lakers' front office performing various TV duties for the team, as well as for ESPN, until Lakers owner Jerry Buss promoted her to scout two years ago.

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How great is this? So while Phil Jackson is sucking his thumb and whining about the officiating being the reason the Lakers are down 0-2 in the series... despite Jackson's towering intellect, his tougher-than-a-Waffle-House-steakEurotrash players and his team's unrelenting defense... his boss is hiring TV sideline cupcakes as scouts. And, I should point out, Jerry Buss' commitment to winning is so deep that he's off playing poker in Vegas instead of watching his team getting drubbed in Boston.

So maybe instead of feeling sorry for himself and saying it's everyone else's fault, Zen Boy should look at his own organization and say maybe they can't compete with a team like the Celtics who hire roundball lifers as scouts. Dedicated hoop junkies who watch 3 NCAA games a night when they're not flying all over the country watching AAU games in podunk towns. Guys whose chief qualification is being able to spot talent, find winners and bring Banner 17 to Boston. Not give office handjobs to the creepy sex-crazed owner.