Could Lakers Sale Prompt NY Owners To Think About It?
Boomer & Gio
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🗓️ 19 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Lakers being sold in what was a surprise as the bus family is now selling their majority |
| 0:07.4 | stake in the Lakers to Mark Walter was the head of the investment group that also owns the Dodgers |
| 0:14.1 | and the number is staggering. It is $10 billion. And it does not include crypto.com center. |
| 0:24.4 | That's the old staple center. |
| 0:25.8 | Right. |
| 0:26.2 | That is now crypto.com center. |
| 0:28.3 | It doesn't include that. |
| 0:29.4 | It only includes a majority stake in the Dodgers. |
| 0:33.7 | The Lakers. |
| 0:34.1 | I mean, blowing to me. |
| 0:36.9 | You know, when the Celtics were sold for $6.1 billion, it did not include the garden up there or TD, whatever they call, TD Bank Garden. |
| 0:46.1 | It didn't include that. |
| 0:47.6 | So now, let's just say for a second, Jim Dolan sees this, and let's say Jim Dolan wants to sell. Remember, he sold Cablevision at |
| 0:55.8 | its highest point. I think he sold it for close to a billion dollars, maybe 800 million. |
| 1:00.8 | I mean, this would be the time to do it, especially because not only does he have the Knicks |
| 1:05.6 | the Rangers, but he also controls and owns MSG. Now, MSG and the state of New York and, of course, the city of New York City, |
| 1:14.6 | are trying to figure out a way they build a new Pennsylvania train station. |
| 1:20.0 | And Donald Trump's all aboard on that. |
| 1:22.5 | And he wants to be a part of that. |
| 1:24.8 | And that would mean that they would have to move Madison Square Garden. |
| 1:28.3 | And there's just a lot of angst and stress around, you know, the tax abatements that are |
| 1:33.3 | associated with the garden. |
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