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The Hardline- Los Angeles Lakers dysfunction

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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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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