However, in 1983, Lakers team owner Jerry Buss mentioned that they would have to raise game ticket prizes to retain Kareem.

Jeanie Buss, the first woman to own a championship NBA team, has led the Los Angeles Lakers since her father's passing in ...

After working for the Lakers for 40 years, West's relationship with the team splintered beyond repair. "I almost wish," he told ESPN, "that I had never played or worked for them." ...

"Those were always Jerry's seats," one longtime ex-Lakers staffer said. The tickets, West said then, were promised to him by Dr. Jerry Buss, the Lakers' owner when he left the team in 2000.

Jeanie Buss shared that the front office told her father, Jerry, to draft David Greenwood from UCLA. Many in the Lakers management thought that this older player may be a valuable asset to the squad.

Jerry West, the Los Angeles Lakers and a simmering 20-year feud IT WAS NEAR midnight on the evening of Feb. 27, 2020, and Jerry West was sitting in his car, parked outside his Bel-Air home. He was ...

Buss when the two talked for hours about trying to build the Lakers into something special. "He's just like Jerry Buss," West said. "Except he's a lot wealthier." It is a lofty comparison coming ...