EL SEGUNDO — Joey and Jesse Buss were terminated from their front-office positions with the Lakers on Thursday morning , a source confirmed with the Southern California News Group .

In addition to having ownership stakes in the franchise, Joey Buss was the organization’s vice president of research and development, while Jesse was an assistant general manager and director of scouting. Joey Buss had also been one of the team’s alternate governors for over 16 years.

The reasoning for the departures of Joey and Jesse Buss wasn’t immediately known as of Thursday afternoon. The team didn’t make an official announcement of the firings.

“I found out [Thursday] morning that it was going to happen,” Coach JJ Redick said after the team’s practice. “But I don’t have any comment on personnel dec

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