The Hardline- Los Angeles Lakers dysfunction
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
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January 21st, 2026
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| 0:00.0 | All right. The big article dropped today on the Lakers and how the sale of the team went down. |
| 0:09.2 | They sold to the guy that owns the Dodgers and owns Chelsea. |
| 0:15.3 | And of course, the bus family, legendary family that owned that franchise since 1979, |
| 0:22.3 | bought it for $60-something million and passed down to the family. |
| 0:28.2 | Jeannie Bus has been running it forever. |
| 0:30.1 | But what I didn't know about the bus family is how many hands were involved in all this. |
| 0:36.8 | How many siblings there are? |
| 0:38.4 | There are six. |
| 0:40.7 | And you talk about this is such an article of dysfunction. |
| 0:46.9 | It gave me tired head. |
| 0:48.5 | When it comes to a family. |
| 0:50.7 | And I just, I always go back to the fact whether it's two people or four or six when it comes to the kids trying to run a business that their parents passed down to him how horrible that must be and Jerry was very Jerry bus yeah was very much like Jerry Jones and Landman. |
| 1:12.5 | Like he... |
| 1:13.1 | Legacy, family. |
| 1:14.0 | He wanted this to be a family business. |
| 1:16.9 | And every time he was asked if he wanted to sell, |
| 1:21.2 | he would say, well, if I sold, I'd have a big pile of money. |
| 1:23.8 | And then all I'd want to do is buy the Lakers. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.2 | They kept going over that scenario by the decade. And they would ask Jerry. He's like, well, I don't want the money. Just like Dave said, didn't I just sit there and be like, well, now I want to buy the Lakers. And then the kids, they repeated that over and over to the tune of in 2000. They thought they were going to get a billion dollars. |
| 1:48.0 | That's 25 years ago, a billion, which would have set all sorts of records, obviously. |
| 1:49.9 | It still sounds like a lot. |
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