“I started hearing, ‘Magic, you’re not working hard enough, Magic’s not in the office,’’’ Johnson said on the ESPN show. “People around the Lakers office were telling me Rob was saying things, Rob Pelinka, and I didn’t like those things being said behind my back, that I wasn’t in the office enough. So I started getting calls from my friends outside basketball saying those things were said to them outside of basketball now, just not in the Lakers office anymore.’’

Source: Los Angeles Times May 20, 2019 17:27 UTC