The Los Angeles Lakers are putting nearly eight decades of basketball history on the coffee table. The franchise has teamed with luxury art-book publisher Taschen for “Lakers: An Official History of the Purple & Gold,” a 528-page authorized history spanning the team’s beginnings in Minneapolis through the Showtime era, its turn-of-the-millennium three-peat and its most
Los Angeles Lakers governor Jeanie Buss is trying to block her siblings’ sale of her family’s remaining stake in the NBA franchise. Josh Kushner, the brother of US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared, and former Disney chief executive Bob Iger agreed a deal last week to buy the controlling interest in one of the world’s
Jeanie Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers owner who has been the face of the team since the death of her father Jerry Buss in 2013, is reportedly contesting the plan approved by her siblings to sell the family’s remaining 18% stake in the storied NBA franchise to investors Bob Iger and Josh Kushner. ESPN and
Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner and former Disney CEO Bob Iger stunned the sports world this week with a deal to buy the Los Angeles Lakers for a record $12.5 billion. If approved, the acquisition would provide the new owners with an iconic NBA franchise that boasts 17 championships as well as ties to legends
In 1979, Jerry Buss bought the Lakers and turned professional basketball into a Hollywood production: courtside celebrities, a fast, camera-ready style of play, an arena built to feel like a stage. He called it Showtime, and it worked so well it became the template every league in the world eventually copied. Forty-seven years later, the
Jerry Buss bought the Lakers in a $67.5m deal (£50m) in 1979 that included the Los Angeles Kings hockey team and a Los Angeles arena, known as the Kia Forum. After he died in 2013, ownership was passed to his six children in a Trust before a deal was completed with Walter, who also owns
