{"id":484241,"date":"2026-02-18T07:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=484241"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:58:41","slug":"jeanie-buss-jerry-buss-wouldve-approved-the-lakers-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jeanie-buss-jerry-buss-wouldve-approved-the-lakers-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeanie Buss: Jerry Buss would\u2019ve approved the Lakers sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1816\" data-end=\"2218\">Jeanie Buss told <strong data-start=\"1833\" data-end=\"1841\">CNBC<\/strong> she believes her late father <strong data-start=\"1871\" data-end=\"1885\">Jerry Buss<\/strong> would have supported the 2025 decision to sell the Buss family\u2019s majority stake in the <strong data-start=\"1973\" data-end=\"1995\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> to billionaire <strong data-start=\"2011\" data-end=\"2026\">Mark Walter<\/strong>, stressing that \u201cto stay at the top of the NBA, you need resources\u201d and a unified direction. Buss added the move was made with the Lakers\u2019 long-term greatness\u2014and her father\u2019s legacy\u2014in mind.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2220\" data-end=\"2564\">The agreement, reached in June 2025 and finalized in late October, left the family with roughly <strong data-start=\"2316\" data-end=\"2323\">17%<\/strong> ownership\u2014enough to satisfy NBA rules for Buss to remain governor. After the sale closed, five of the six Buss siblings were removed from their team roles, while Jeanie received a five-year contract and reiterated: \u201cI\u2019m not going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2566\" data-end=\"2908\">On the basketball side, Buss addressed the franchise\u2019s shift from <strong data-start=\"2632\" data-end=\"2648\">LeBron James<\/strong> to a future built around <strong data-start=\"2674\" data-end=\"2689\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/strong>, calling the Walter partnership a stabilizing force to keep building. Regarding LeBron\u2014entering the final year of his deal\u2014she kept the door open: \u201cNever say never,\u201d while noting there has been no clear indication yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a CNBC interview, the Los Angeles Lakers governor backs the Mark Walter deal: \u201cTo stay on top, you need resources.\u201d<\/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-484241","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\/484241","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=484241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484241\/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=484241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484241"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=484241"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=484241"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=484241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}