Dr. Buss offered Shaq a 5 year, 120 million dollar deal when he was 32, overweight, with bad feet. Would you consider that a deal out of fairness too?

The funniest thing to me about people's attitudes toward Jim Buss is that it's pure selective attention: everything negative is blamed on him and then Mitch gets all the positive credit. Dude certainly has his faults but the piling on is symptomatic of the scapegoat mentality.