{"id":447037,"date":"2025-06-19T07:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T05:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=447037"},"modified":"2025-06-19T07:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T05:30:46","slug":"buss-family-sells-majority-stake-in-lakers-to-mark-walter-for-10b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/buss-family-sells-majority-stake-in-lakers-to-mark-walter-for-10b\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; $10B sale sets new record for U.S. sports franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1330\" data-end=\"1530\">The <strong data-start=\"1355\" data-end=\"1420\">$10 billion purchase of the Los Angeles Lakers by Mark Walter<\/strong> now stands as the most expensive sale in U.S. sports history, eclipsing every previous franchise transaction.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1532\" data-end=\"1671\">It surpasses the Celtics\u2019 $6.1B deal and the Commanders\u2019 $6.05B sale. The trend of soaring franchise prices shows no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1673\" data-end=\"1817\">Walter already owns stakes in Dodgers, Chelsea, Sparks and more. The Lakers add another jewel to a growing portfolio of elite sports properties.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1819\" data-end=\"1833\"><em data-start=\"1819\" data-end=\"1833\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakers become the most expensive franchise ever sold in U.S. sports. A $10 billion deal tops Celtics, Commanders and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-447037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447037"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=447037"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=447037"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=447037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}