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ESPN Reports How the Sale of the Lakers Tore the Buss Family Apart

Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers

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4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Well, the good vibes around Tuesday's win over the Nuggets was overshadowed pretty fast. Baxter Holmes of ESPN dropped a long, well-reported story on the family drama that drove, and then surrounded, the sale of the Lakers from the Buss family to Mark Walter. It was, as so many things have been since Dr. Jerry Buss died and left control of the team to Jeanie and Jim in 2013, full of incredible tension between the Buss siblings. It was a story with conflict, alliances and more, and all of it exceedingly sad, because ultimately it was control of the team, whether in the most literal sense or in the challenges of trying to put a stamp on it, that ripped the family apart. There is a lot of stuff packed into the article, some of it known, some of it not, and a lot of dots that were connected in ways that likely make sense to people. There were interesting and revealing details about how Joey and Jesse Buss were let go from the team a few weeks ago, about bonuses paid out to team executives like Linda and Kurt Rambis, and contentions that management resented the credit LeBron James got for turning the team around after some awful seasons. And, of course, it lends itself to important questions going forward. How long does Walter look at Jeanie and Rob Pelinka as a trustworthy asset? How long until he assets more control? Ultimately, if you're someone who has followed the team closely for a while, the story reinforced a lot of what you might have already felt about the major players in this long running family drama, and how their conflict influenced how the Lakers were managed. It's a family of very, very wealthy people, especially now that the sale has gone through. But at a major cost to the family bond. HOSTS: Andy and Brian Kamenetzky SEGMENT 1: A big story about the Buss family. SEGMENT 2: The LeBron factor. SEGMENT 3: What's next? Everydayer Club  If you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everydayerclub Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Turbo Tax For a limited time, you can have your taxes done by a local TurboTax expert for just $150 — all in, if a TurboTax expert didn’t file for you last year. Just file by February 28. Take taxes off your plate and get back to your life. Visit https://TurboTax.com/local to book your appointment today.  Quo Make this the year where no opportunity — and no customer — slips away. Try Quo for free plus get 20% off your first 6 months when you go to https://Quo.com/lockedonnba.Quo — no missed calls, no missed customers.  Gametime Today's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNBA for $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply. FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. The NBA and NFL seasons are here, visit the FanDuel App today and start planning your futures bets now. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

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ESPN reports on how the sale of the Lakers tore the bus family apart and may have revealed

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tensions between the organization and LeBron.

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We've covered the Lakers for a long time, almost 20 years, long enough to see a lot of what was described in the piece from Baxter Holmes, the long-form story from ESPN's Baxter Holmes on how the sale of the Lakers really ripped at, I guess, what was left of any bus family bonds between the siblings after Dr.

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Bus's death.

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And man alive, there was a lot going on in this story.

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Some of it familiar, Andy, to people, some of it perhaps less familiar, but all of it leading to a place of great family dysfunction.

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It's interesting. You mentioned how we've covered this team for 20 years, and obviously a chunk of

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that included when Dr. Bus was still alive and the ultimate shock caller of the team and Jim Bus was along with Mitch

1:46.3

Cupcheck running basketball operations, Jeannie, the head of business operations. But those details

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in a lot of ways are just a different version of what we're seeing now in terms of the open

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