Jeanie Buss

The Lakers was traditionally one of the most ballyhooed and revered organizations in professional sports. A combination of a lot of winning and the glitz and glam of wearing the purple and yellow, had morphed into somewhat of a joke in recent years as they floundered near the bottom of the western conference and whiffed [...]

Los Angeles will be playing host to next year’s NBA All-Star Game, and don’t think for a minute Lakers controlling owner Jeanie Buss isn’t pining for purple and gold to be repped on the floor, at Staples Center, when the 2018 superstar exhibition tips off. During an appearance on a podcast for Forbes Sports Money, Buss [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers no longer have a Buss family power struggle on their hands. Jeanie Buss is the controlling owner, and her brothers, Jim and Johnny, are ditching their hopes of changing that. From the Los Angeles Times‘ Tania Ganguli: The monthlong fight between Jeanie Buss and her brothers, Jim and Johnny, to control the Lakers is over. [...]

Have you heard the one where New York Knicks president Phil Jackson spurns the Big Apple to reunite with the Los Angeles Lakers and his fiance, and team co-owner, Jeanie Buss? Of course you have. Well, Buss wants you to know that this conspiracy theory, sensible thought it sounds at times, is complete crap. As [...]

Byron Scott’s spot with the Los Angeles Lakers may be more secure than we initially thought. It’s been assumed for the longest time that the organization would can Scott once Kobe Bryant’s farewell tour ended. He hasn’t seemed to connect especially well with the kiddies, and the Lakers need to usher in a new era [...]

Lakers President and Co-Owner Jeanie Buss released a statement Wednesday announcing that the Lakers will be erecting a statue of Shaquille O’Neal outside of the Staples Center to be unveiled sometime during the 2016-17 season: “We look forward to having Shaq join the other legends who have been honored with statues at STAPLES Center,” Buss [...]

Los Angeles Lakers president of basketball operations Jim Buss may soon be out of a job. Unless, of course, the Lakers start playing and winning like the Lakers again. Talking about Jim’s job security during a radio appearance with KPCC team president Jeanie Buss, his sister, painted a bleak picture, per ESPN.com’s Baxter Holmes: Los [...]

Eleven NBA championships as a head coach? Check. Two NBA titles as a player? Check. Stainless legacy? Check. A fat $60 million contract to run the New York Knicks? Check. Supportive fiancee? Check again. Knicks president Phil Jackson really does have it all. His fiancee Jeanie Buss has seemed nothing but supportive of him in [...]

Turns out the Los Angeles Lakers don’t take too kindly to being slighted. Dwight Howard is more than a month removed from choosing the Houston Rockets over the Lakers and his decision is still making headlines. It will probably stay that way through next season or until Howard gets bored and becomes indecisive about another [...]

Were Dr. Jerry Buss still alive, his daughter, Jeanie, believes that Dwight Howard would still be a member of the Los Angeles Lakers. Speaking with Mark Willard and Mychal Thompson on ESPNLA 710, Buss said that things would have been different had Dwight been wooed by her father, as transcribed by Ramona Shelburne of ESPN [...]