{"id":509672,"date":"2026-08-13T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509672"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:07:06","slug":"iger-confirms-jeanie-buss-will-remain-lakers-governor-under-new-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/iger-confirms-jeanie-buss-will-remain-lakers-governor-under-new-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Iger confirms Jeanie Buss will remain Lakers governor under new ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"2400\" data-end=\"2787\">Incoming <strong data-start=\"2409\" data-end=\"2431\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> owners <strong data-start=\"2439\" data-end=\"2451\">Bob Iger<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2456\" data-end=\"2472\">Josh Kushner<\/strong> have no immediate plans to change the franchise&#8217;s leadership structure. Following their record-breaking <strong data-start=\"2577\" data-end=\"2594\">$12.5 billion<\/strong> purchase of the team, Iger confirmed that <strong data-start=\"2637\" data-end=\"2652\">Jeanie Buss<\/strong> will remain the Lakers&#8217; <strong data-start=\"2677\" data-end=\"2689\">governor<\/strong>, honoring the agreement reached when <strong data-start=\"2727\" data-end=\"2742\">Mark Walter<\/strong> acquired the franchise from the Buss family.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2789\" data-end=\"2926\">Under Walter&#8217;s original <strong data-start=\"2813\" data-end=\"2828\">$10 billion<\/strong> purchase agreement, Buss was guaranteed to remain governor of the Lakers for at least five years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2928\" data-end=\"3298\">&#8220;We have enormous respect and appreciation for Jeanie, her father and everything they&#8217;ve contributed to this franchise,&#8221; Iger said. &#8220;We fully intend to honor the agreement made between Mark and Jeanie. If things change down the road, they&#8217;ll change, but we&#8217;re entering this partnership with tremendous respect for who she is and what she represents to the organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3300\" data-end=\"3605\">Iger revealed that he and <strong data-start=\"3326\" data-end=\"3342\">Josh Kushner<\/strong> completed the acquisition of Walter&#8217;s majority stake in just <strong data-start=\"3404\" data-end=\"3427\">three business days<\/strong> after learning the team could become available. At the time, the pair had been pursuing ownership opportunities connected to the NBA&#8217;s planned <strong data-start=\"3571\" data-end=\"3604\">Las Vegas expansion franchise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3607\" data-end=\"3807\">The former Disney CEO also said he has already spoken with <strong data-start=\"3666\" data-end=\"3681\">Jeanie Buss<\/strong> and new head coach <strong data-start=\"3701\" data-end=\"3714\">JJ Redick<\/strong>, although he has not yet had the opportunity to speak with Lakers superstar <strong data-start=\"3791\" data-end=\"3806\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3809\" data-end=\"4027\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">According to Iger, the ownership group has not yet established a long-term plan for the franchise, noting that the transaction came together quickly and that discussions about the team&#8217;s future are only just beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New owners Bob Iger and Josh Kushner plan to honor the agreement reached during Mark Walter&#8217;s purchase, keeping Buss in her leadership role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":509671,"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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-13-alle-09.04.54.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509672","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509672"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509672"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509672"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}