What Are They Putting in the Lakers’ Food?

First Kobe, now Phil?

Could a wedding be in the offing for Laker Coach Phil Jackson, 54, who is reportedly “like this” with the Lakers’ 38-year-old executive vice president (and daughter of the boss, team owner Jerry Buss) Jeanie Buss?

This week’s Star tabloid quotes an unnamed source in the Lakers organization as saying that Buss and Jackson will marry as soon as he can finalize a divorce from his wife of 25 years.

A onetime Playboy pinup with a penchant for dating athletes, Buss has been linked to basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman and tennis player John McEnroe and was married from 1990 to 1993 to pro volleyball player Steve Timmons.

In 1995, Buss told The Times that she and Timmons separated after she discovered that plans to remodel their Manhattan Beach home did not include more than one bedroom. “I said, ‘Excuse me, but where is the kid gonna go?’ ” Buss said at the time.

Jackson, who filed for divorce from his wife, June, last summer, has five grown children, but Buss has said that she is eager to have her own. Attempts to reach Buss or Jackson were unsuccessful.

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“Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?” bride Darva Conger doesn’t seem to mind being the center of attention . . . again. This week, she’s promoting her appearance in the August issue of Playboy.

When Conger arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Tuesday to film an interview for NBC’s “Today Show,” she and actress Lesley Ann Warren (also on the flight) were greeted at the gate by a mob seeking autographs, according to Rob Hilburger of Playboy.

Warren signed her headshots for fans, but poor Conger had only photocopies of Playboy pics to sign.

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Since we’re devoting the column today to scantily clad women. . . . The U.S. Postal Service chose not to deliver 1,500 copies of the July issue of L.A.-based Genre magazine, featuring Lil’ Kim on the cover. The rap star, in a dog collar, fishnets, black bra and G-string, is holding a tiger face mask where you might expect to find a fig leaf.

“This cover was the last thing we thought we’d be censored over . . . being that we’re a gay men’s magazine,” said publisher Richard Settles.

Normally, Genre subscribers receive their copies in plastic wrap for privacy reasons, Settles said. Copies sent to press and advertisers are not covered.

For some reason, this month’s Genre cover falls into the postal category of “unsolicited sexually oriented advertisements,” defined as “any advertisement that depicts, in actual or simulated form, or explicitly describes, in a predominantly sexual context, human genitalia, any act of natural or unnatural sexual intercourse, any act of sadism or masochism.” (Offending material must be sealed in an envelope, covered, or marked “sexually-oriented advertisement.”)

Settles said that when he got the call from the Postal Service saying the magazines had to be returned to the printer for plastic wrap, the representative did not spell out what objectionable act it was that Lil’ Kim was engaged in.

I called to inquire but was told no one was available to speak about the situation. Between the millions of racy Victoria’s Secret catalogs and Cosmopolitan magazines crossing in the mail every day, it’s hard to fathom why Genre was singled out.

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Booth Moore can be reached at booth.moore@latimes.com.