It came as a pretty big shock when it was announced that the Jeanie Buss and the Buss family were selling their majority stake of the Los Angeles Lakers to L.A.
The Lakers have made it official, announcing that Mark Walter is now the team’s new majority owner. The franchise confirmed in a press release that Walter’s purchase of a controlling stake has closed, just weeks after the NBA’s Board of Governors unanimously approved the sale.
While the Los Angeles Dodgers are looking to repeat as World Series champions, owner Mark Walter is also inching closer to taking over the Los Angeles Lakers from Jeanie Buss.
Amid all the uncertainty that Russell Westbrook faced this summer, some shocking information came out around the time he was finalizing his veteran deal with the Kings.
The NBA has always been a man’s world, but that doesn’t mean that a woman can’t make her mark. There was a time the team owners were all men, and then Jeanie Buss busted through the glass ceiling to become one of the most influential women in NBA history.
The most talked about Los Angeles Lakers star this summer has not been LeBron James or Luka Doncic. It has been the team’s talented shooting guard, Austin Reaves.
The all-time list of NBA All-Stars is obviously long, and notably distinguished. However, there are some players — for various reasons — who the casual, or even most-dedicated, NBA fans can't recall having earned All-Star nods.
The biggest priority for the Los Angeles Lakers this offseason was to lock up Luka Doncic with a contract extension. He signed a three-year deal extension with the Lakers this summer.
The next era of Los Angeles Lakers basketball begins during the 2025-26 season as the franchise has several new faces leading the way. Luka Doncic is primed and ready to assume the role as the next face of the Lakers following an offseason dedicated to transforming his body.
With the Buss family selling their majority ownership stake in the Lakers, change is coming to Los Angeles. Mark Walter will now be the Lakers’ majority owner, and the expectation so far is that Jeanie Buss will remain as governor.
The Buss family has owned the Los Angeles Lakers since Dr. Jerry Buss purchased the team in 1979, but that is about to change as earlier this year they announced they will be selling the team to Mark Walter, the CEO and chairman of TWG Global who also owns the L.A.
The Los Angeles Lakers have a long history of some of the greatest basketball players of all-time being the face of the franchise. Now for the first time, that player is an international one as Luka Doncic is set to begin his first full season with the franchise.
LeBron James recently addressed a moment from about 18 months ago involving Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis—something that ballooned into a meme and rumors.
Los Angeles Lakers governor Jeanie Buss may have helped save her team from a scandal amid Los Angeles Clippers superstar Kawhi Leonard's alleged involvement in a $28 million endorsement deal with a fraudulent company funded by Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, which was recently brought to light by award-winning journalist Pablo Torre.
While the Luka Doncic trade to the Los Angeles Lakers came as a massive shock to the entire basketball world, it came as just a big a surprise, if not even more so, to the superstar himself.
For most players, a trade to the Los Angeles Lakers would be received with overwhelming excitement and happiness. In the case of Luka Doncic, however, Lakers executive Jeanie Buss recalls that his reaction was much more subdued than she was used to.
The Los Angeles Lakers’ brass has spoken about how much they support superstar guard Luka Doncic in everything that he does, but recently they put action behind those words.
Luka Doncic is preparing to represent the Slovenian national team at the FIBA EuroBasket tournament. He will be one of the star talents in the tournament.
The Buss family sold a majority interest in the Los Angeles Lakers to investor Mark Walter in June.
Despite transitioning out of her role as a majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, Jeanie Buss will still apparently be finishing out the decade as the team’s lead decision-maker.
The Lakers shocked the entire sports world for the second time this calendar year by executing the highest sale ever for a North America-based professional sports franchise.
The Buss siblings are on their way out as the majority owners of the Los Angeles Lakers, but Jeanie Buss will still apparently have a big say in the franchise’s day-to-day operations.
Johnson remains an ardent Lakers fan, but he has been critical of the team’s performances in recent playoffs.
After 46 years of ownership, the Buss family agreed to sell a controlling interest in the Los Angeles Lakers to Mark Walter, CEO of Guggenheim Partners. It's the end of an era for the Lakers, and the continuation of a pro sports dynasty in Southern California.
The Buss family has reached an agreement to sell its majority stake in the Lakers to Mark Walter.
The 2020 version of the Los Angeles Lakers remains one of the more fun teams in the iconic franchise's history. Not only did they win the NBA title but the team provided some hope to fans during a tough year with Covid-19 raging around the world.
Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss opened up about the Luka Doncic–Anthony Davis NBA trade during an appearance on NPR. Buss implied that Davis “wasn’t happy” in Los Angeles.
The former Laker Beverley thinks that he can sense a trend here.
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