{"id":470726,"date":"2025-11-21T08:33:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=470726"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:33:28","slug":"lakers-fire-joey-and-jesse-buss-amid-front-office-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lakers-fire-joey-and-jesse-buss-amid-front-office-shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers fire Joey and Jesse Buss amid front office shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1637\">The <strong data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1378\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> have <strong data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1413\">fired Joey and Jesse Buss<\/strong>, longtime executives and brothers of team governor <strong data-start=\"1465\" data-end=\"1480\">Jeanie Buss<\/strong>, as part of a sweeping <strong data-start=\"1504\" data-end=\"1535\">front office reorganization<\/strong>, according to <em data-start=\"1550\" data-end=\"1556\">ESPN<\/em>. Several scouting staff members, including <strong data-start=\"1600\" data-end=\"1613\">Sean Buss<\/strong>, were also dismissed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1639\" data-end=\"1967\">The Buss brothers, key figures in scouting for the past two decades, helped discover talents like <strong data-start=\"1737\" data-end=\"1754\">Austin Reaves<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1756\" data-end=\"1771\">Alex Caruso<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1777\" data-end=\"1791\">Kyle Kuzma<\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019re honored to have been part of this organization for 20 seasons,\u201d they said, adding, \u201cOur dad wanted us to run basketball operations, but Jeanie has chosen otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1969\" data-end=\"2182\">The move follows the <strong data-start=\"1990\" data-end=\"2055\">$10 billion sale of the Lakers\u2019 majority stake to Mark Walter<\/strong>, approved last month. Joey and Jesse will retain minority ownership and continue their work through <strong data-start=\"2156\" data-end=\"2179\">Buss Sports Capital<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2184\" data-end=\"2236\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeanie Buss remains team governor after major restructuring<\/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-470726","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\/470726","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=470726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470726\/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=470726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470726"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=470726"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=470726"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=470726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}