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How much did Jerry Buss sell the Kings for?

Did Jerry Buss pay as much for the Los Angeles Lakers as he did on Winning Time ? – In Winning Time, Lakers owner Cooke was eager to sell the team to pay a divorce settlement so large it broke a Guinness World Record, For most of the series premiere, Buss is scrambling to get the rest of the $67.5 million he and Cooke agreed on for the sale of the team.

Unfortunately, while Winning Time got the $67.5 million sale price right, it got the purchase slightly wrong. Buss got more than just the only NBA team in Los Angeles at the time, the real estate mogul’s purchase also included an NHL team in the Los Angeles Kings, The Forum—the arena where the Lakers and Kings played—as well as a 13,000 square foot ranch in California Sierras, according to a New York Times article about the sale from May 29, 1979.

By the time Buss purchased the Lakers, the team had already won its first NBA title in Los Angeles in 1972, acquired arguably the best player in the NBA in Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and had Jack Nicholson courtside at games exuding his trademark maniacal charm and terrifyingly irresistible smile.

But, the NBA was failing. Attendance and ratings were plummeting months before Buss purchased the team, with national television ratings dropping by a backboard breaking 26% from the previous year. N0 one was paying $67.5 million for a team in a league some thought was on the verge of going out of business.

In fact, the Lakers accounted for less than half of the final sale price, as the team and the Kings together were sold for just $24 million, according to Buss himself in the New York Times article, The other $43.5 million was for the indoor arena and the ranch. Dave Gatley // Getty Images The gamble worked out historically well for Buss. The $24 million he purchased for the Lakers and Kings would be $95.57 million in today’s money.43 years later, the combined purchase of both teams would be a fraction of the Lakers’ current valuation of $5.5 billion.
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Did the Buss family approve winning time?

Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by HBO and Getty Images “My dream really was to have the Lakers and Los Angeles identified as one and the same,” Jerry Buss said to ESPN in 2010, “When you think New York, you think Yankees. I wanted that to be the case here as well.

That when you think L.A., you think Lakers. I believe I’ve accomplished that.” It’s no exaggeration to say basketball games were revolutionized by late Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who envisioned an immersive, commercialized experience for the sport. Adam McKay’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, a.k.a.

the final straw in his longtime business partnership with Will Ferrell, follows Buss’s journey creating the Lakers’ Showtime dynasty of the 1980s. The series embodies McKay’s theatrical style and Buss’s showmanship through cheeky (and arguably excessive) fourth-wall breaks, freeze frames, and grainy filters.

The series is based on Jeff Pearlman’s 2014 book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, Even after Pearlman sold his book rights to screenwriter Jim Hecht in 2014, he didn’t believe the show would actually come to fruition. But like most things involving Jerry Buss, it’s here, and it’s ready to entertain.

Because there are so many people and players involved — 15 main and 34 recurring cast members, to be exact — keeping track of it can feel like a lot. Luckily, we’ve narrowed down the team with side-by-side comparisons of Winning Time ‘s key players and their real-life counterparts.

1. It’s showtime! This article contains spoilers for Winning Time,
2. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by HBO and Getty Images Dr.
3. Jerry Buss was the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers during the Lakers’ Showtime era of the 1980s.
4. After creating a Los Angeles real-estate empire in the 1970s, including New York City’s Chrysler Building, Buss purchased the Lakers, NHL Kings, the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California, and a 13,000-acre ranch in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

From there, he revolutionized the sports industry, creating the concept of “sports entertainment.” He added elements of live entertainment by creating the Laker Girls cheerleaders, hiring a house band, and scheduling music performances at every game.

1. In the premiere episode, “The Swan,” Buss tells first-draft pick Magic Johnson (Quincy Isaiah), “I don’t know why basketball can’t feel like that,” while watching a musical performance at a nightclub.
2. Under his ownership, the Lakers won ten NBA championships (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010), and five of those were during the 1980s Showtime era.

He also created the Los Angeles Sparks in 1997, and they went on to win two WNBA championships in 2001 and 2002. He developed a lifelong friendship with Lakers star Magic Johnson, who later in life considered him a “second father.” Buss also worked with basketball legends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy, Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Pau Gasol as well Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Pat Riley and Phil Jackson.

A known playboy, he had a number of young girlfriends after his divorce from JoAnn Mueller in 1972. All six of his children — four with Mueller and two with ex-girlfriend Karen Demel — became involved with the Lakers franchise, including current owner and president of the team Jeanie Buss. Jerry was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010 for creating one of the most successful sports franchises in history.

“Even today, when they talk on ESPN, ‘Greatest Owners in Sports History’ come on, man, that’s crazy! It’s just him! What are we arguing about? Ten championships? Countless times to the Western Conference Finals He was the mastermind. Everybody today should be thanking him,” Johnson told the NBA of his longtime friend,

1. Jerry died of kidney failure on February 18, 2013, after battling cancer for a year.
2. At the time of his death, he left behind an unforgettable Lakers legacy and was estimated to be worth nearly $1 billion.
3. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by HBO and Getty Images One of the star Showtime Lakers players, 19-year-old Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr.

joined the team as the first overall pick in the 1979 NBA draft. At a towering six-foot-nine, he won his first NBA championship during his rookie season and became the first rookie to win NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). Throughout his career, he won five NBA championships, three NBA finals MVP titles, and three NBA season MVP titles.

• Johnson’s close friendship with Jerry was criticized by his fellow teammates, as it was an unwritten rule for players not to befriend the owner of the team.
• However, Johnson wanted insight into the business aspect of the spor t.
• Beyond basketball, Johnson had aspirations to be an entrepreneur in different fields, from sports to theater, once he retired from the sport.

Johnson’s biggest on-court rival was the Boston Celtics’ Larry Bird. It began with Johnson’s win in the 1979 NCAA finals, reigniting the Celtics-Lakers rivalry, which has been deemed one of the sport’s greatest. The two competed head-to-head at three NBA finals, with the Lakers winning the last two.

However, there are no hard feelings off the court between the two. Johnson and Bird became friendly during a 1984 Converse commercial — Bird invited Johnson to lunch with his mother ; the two realized they had a lot in common. Despite their friendship, they kept their rivalry intense but professional on the court.

In 1991, Johnson shared that he was HIV-positive and would be retiring from basketball; however, he returned to the sport for the 1992 All-Star Game and the 1992 Olympic Games. Johnson became an advocate for HIV and AIDS awareness, launching the Magic Johnson Foundation in 1991.

Throughout his career, Johnson continued to expand his community outreach beyond HIV/AIDS activism; he worked with churches, homeless shelters, and youth organizations. With what he learned from Buss, he became an entrepreneur, creating Magic Johnson Enterprises, which includes movie-theater chains, fast-food restaurants, and professional sports teams, with a reported net worth of $600 million,

He served as a head coach for the Lakers for one season in 1994 then became a minority owner of the franchise until 2010. Johnson resigned as president of basketball operations in 2019, making it his final role with the Lakers. He’s currently an NBA ambassador and part owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

According to Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, she still goes to Johnson for advice on the team despite his formal departure. Johnson has three children and is married to his college sweetheart, “Cookie” Johnson. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by HBO and Getty Images Contrary to the series, Jeanie Buss worked for several years in sports management before beginning her acclaimed career with the Lakers.

While earning a business degree from the University of Southern California, Jeanie became general manager of the Los Angeles Strings, a World Team Tennis franchise, in 1981 during the Showtime era. She worked alongside Linda Rambis, who then became her business partner for over 40 years.

In the early 1990s, Jeanie became the owner of the Los Angeles Blades roller hockey team and was named executive of the year by Roller Hockey International. Eventually, she became a part of the Lakers family by becoming president of the Forum, the team’s former venue, in 1995. Just a few short years later, Jeanie would be named executive vice-president of business operations for the Lakers.

When her father died in 2013, Jeanie was left with 11 percent ownership of the Lakers, an equal vote to her siblings. However, she was also named Lakers’ governor and team representative. While the Lakers have stated that they “are not supporting nor involved with” Winning Time, Jeanie herself did not approve of the HBO series, per former Forum president Claire Rothman,

1. However, Jeanie has been involved with several Laker-inspired shows.
2. Jeanie is currently producing a fictional workplace comedy inspired by the Lakers with Mindy Kailing and Rambis and an upcoming Hulu docuseries about the Lakers,
3. Jeanie Buss is currently the controlling owner and president of the Los Angeles Lakers.

As one of the only three NBA teams with women in ownership positions, Jeanie became the only female controlling owner to guide her team to a championship in 2020. She remains close friends with Magic Johnson, who she considers a brother. In an interview with comedian Theo Von, Jeanie said of Magic, “When he and I are together, working, strategizing, we speak the same language because we were basically raised by the same man.

My dad bought the team when I was 17, Magic came that same year at age 19, so we’re basically the same age. We learned at the hand of the greatest owners ever.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by HBO and Getty Images Beginning his Los Angeles Lakers career in 1975, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar helped form the Showtime dynasty as the team’s center and main defensive strategy.

The basketball star did, in fact, star in the 1980 cult-classic parody film Airplane! Of his role as Roger Murdock, Abdul-Jabbar said on the Today show, “I thought that I come across the wrong way to the public, and it really was a great opportunity for me to poke fun of my image and just get people to laugh about a few things.

I had taken my career so seriously, and I was so focused on it. People didn’t think I could do anything else.” At a height of seven-foot-two, he had a reputation for carrying the team’s defense while playing center, winning five NBA All-Defensive First Team and six NBA All-Defensive Second Team awards during his career.

He retired from the Lakers in 1989 and holds the record as the NBA All-Time Leading Scorer with 38,387 points. Abdul-Jabbar has since returned to Hollywood; he joined the writing staff of the 2019 Veronica Mars revival and is currently a contributing editor to The Hollywood Reporter,

1. Abdul-Jabbar has four children, three with his ex-wife Habiba Abdul-Jabbar and one with his girlfriend during the Showtime era, Cheryl Pistono (played by Sarah Ramos).
2. Pistono convinced Kareem to formally divorce his wife after they had been separated for several years and supported him when he lost his beloved jazz-record collection when his house burned down in 1983.

The couple broke up a year later. On her relationship with Kareem: “The reason we have a great relationship is because I don’t drag him back through those days and those issues. To do that would cause more problems. We made a pact because of our son. That was more important than anything we didn’t like about each other.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by HBO and Getty Images The man behind the silhouette of the NBA logo, Jerry West has spent over 60 years with the Los Angeles Lakers.

He was the second first-round pick of the Minneapolis Lakers right before they moved to Los Angeles in 1960. He served as point guard for 14 years, becoming the league’s only MVP on a losing team after losing to the Boston Celtics in 1969. Winning Time meets West as an uptight general manager of the Lakers who struggles with the losses from his career playing in the league.

West continued as the team’s general manager for many years, winning the NBA Executive of the Year award in 1995, a year before signing Lakers legends Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant. After leaving the Lakers in 2000, he moved on to become the general manager of the Memphis Grizzlies, where he won his second NBA Executive of the Year award in 2004.

West is currently an executive consultant for the Los Angeles Clippers. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by HBO and Getty Images Larry Bird first met Johnson on the court during the NCAA championship in 1979, where their rivalry began. He was drafted to the Boston Celtics during his junior year at Indiana State University where he won rookie of the year in 1980.

His shooting ability and charismatic charm drew crowds to live games, especially when the Celtics played the Lakers. Bird won three NBA championships with the Celtics (1981, 1984, 1986) and three MVP awards in a row (1984, 1985, 1986). He eventually retired in 1992 because of ongoing back problems.

However, he competed in one last professional game during the Summer 1992 Olympics alongside Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan, winning the Men’s Basketball gold medal. Bird became the coach of the Indiana Pacers in 1997 and was named the NBA Coach of the Year for the same season. He later became the Pacers’ president of basketball, and for the 2011-2012 season, he won NBA executive of the year.

With this achievement, he became the only person to be named NBA MVP, Coach of the Year, and Executive of the Year. Bird has since stepped down from his executive duties and is currently an adviser to the team. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by HBO and Getty Images As a homemaker and business partner to her first husband, Claire Rothman knew how to run the numbers.

• After her divorce, she worked as a bookkeeper at the Spectrum arena in Philadelphia and was quickly promoted to business manager.
• She was hired by former Forum owner Jack Kent Cooke, who she then introduced to Jerry Buss, leading to the historic sale.
• Rothman began her career with the Forum and subsequently the Lakers in 1975 as the president and the general manager of the arena.

She left the Forum in 1995 to become an executive vice-president at Ticketmaster until her retirement in 1999. Contrary to the show, Claire Rothman did not work directly with Jeanie Buss; Jeanie took over the role after Rothman left the Forum. With respect to Winning Time, Rothman shared that she declined to be involved because it was not approved by Jeanie.

“I did read the first episode that Jeanie sent me, and I didn’t like the way it presented Jerry, and I didn’t like the way it presented me,” said Rothman to Goldstein and Gasol’s Pablo Goldstein. “The thing that stuck out was that it said when I went to meet Jerry, I unbuttoned my blouse by three buttons.

Now, that’s bullshit. I had a long-term association as an arena manager. So I wouldn’t have cooperated in any case.” Rothman remains close friends with Jeanie Buss. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by HBO and Getty Images Played by his son DeVaughn Nixon, Norm Nixon was the point guard for the Lakers, winning two championships in 1980 and 1982.

He was traded to the San Diego Clippers in 1983 but never made the playoffs with the team. Once he retired from playing professionally, Norm became a sports agent for several years and is currently a color analyst during the Lakers’ home games. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by HBO and Getty Images Winning Time finds Pat Riley uninspired, several years after his retirement from playing professional basketball.

In the series, his therapist wife, Chris (played by Gillian Jacobs), inspires him to head back to the Forum in an effort to not turn out like his father. Similar to Jerry West, Riley began his Lakers career in the early 1970s as shooting guard and spent nine seasons in the NBA.

1. He rejoined the Lakers in 1977 as a broadcaster for two years until he replaced Paul Westhead as an assistant coach.
2. However, after Magic Johnson expressed his dissatisfaction playing for Westhead as Lakers head coach, Jerry Buss fired Westhead and named Jerry West and Pat Riley as co-head coaches in the 1981–1982 season.

Riley fit right into the Showtime image with his signature tan skin and Armani designer suits (Giorgio and Riley were friends off the court) which earned him the nickname “the Godfather.” As co-head coach, he used the 1-3-1 half-court trap that helped the Lakers win using defensive techniques,

• Riley won five NBA championships with the Lakers, one as a player (1972) and four as a coach (1982, 1985, 1987, 1988).
• He left the Lakers in 1991 to become the head coach to the New York Knicks for four years and then moved to the Miami Heat in 1995.
• He became the president and head coach of the Heat, winning an NBA championship in 2006 as both a coach and an executive.

Riley stepped down as head coach in 2008 but has since remained as president of the Heat. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by HBO and Getty Images After head coach Jack McKinney was hospitalized because of a biking accident, his assistant Paul Westhead stepped up as head coach of the Lakers in 1980, leaving his job as a NCAA coach and English teacher at La Salle University.

As a coach, he lead the team to their first championship during the Showtime era in 1980. However, after a devastating playoff loss in 1981 to the Houston Rockets, Magic Johnson began questioning Westhead’s coaching ability, Tensions finally escalated in 1982 when Jerry Buss finally fired Westhead in the middle of the season, promoting Pat Riley to head coach alongside Jerry West.

He eventually returned to college basketball and coached for Loyola Marymount. Westhead coached and assisted for many teams like the Golden State Warriors, Denver Nuggets, and the University of Oregon. “I had a rather unusual basketball system and style of play.
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Was Jerry Buss a good poker player?

Poker player – Buss was a high-stakes cash game poker player for many years, but later in life was more active in tournament games. His best finishes included third in the 1991 World Series of Poker seven-card stud event and second place in the 2003 World Poker Tour Freeroll invitational. He also appeared in the GSN series High Stakes Poker and the NBC late-night series Poker After Dark,
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How did Jerry Buss get rich?

First Step Leads to a Dream Achieved – That first project, a 14 unit building in Los Angeles, was only the beginning. Buss continued his research and moved on to bigger and more complex deals. In 1979, just 20 years after his first investment, he sold nearly all of his assets and bought the Los Angeles Lakers (as well as the LA Kings and the LA Forum) for nearly 68 million dollars.
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How much did Shaq own of the Kings?

After all of the speculation, Shaquille O’Neal has officially sold his minority ownership stake of the Sacramento Kings. The basketball legend-turned-investor made the announcement on his Twitter page. @SacramentoKings @Vivek All love✌🏿👑 #Shaqramento pic.twitter.com/QJ3gtDcwUO — SHAQ (@SHAQ) January 13, 2022 “As a result of a new business endeavor, I was required by NBA rules to sell my interest in the Sacramento Kings.

I want to thank the fans, the city of Sacramento, Vivek Ranadive and the entire Kings organization for our great partnership. I loved being an owner of such a forward-thinking organization and I hope to be back someday,” O’Neal shared in a statement via Twitter. “I was fortunate to have Arctos help me with this transaction.

I’m sure they will be a great partner for Vivek, the Kings, and the NBA going forward. Till we meet again” According to Sports Illustrated, Shaquille O’Neal purchased a share of the Kings back in 2013. However, it’s unclear how much the sale of his stake netted him in a profit.

• As AfroTech previously reported, Shaquille O’Neal signed a deal to become a brand ambassador for premier mobile sports betting app WynnBET that made him the brand’s new face.
• As part of his exclusive partnership, O’Neal would be required to sell his minority stake in the Sacramento Kings — which equals out to roughly 2-4% of an NBA team that’s now valued at $1.9 billion (What’s interesting is that the team was reportedly valued at $534 million at the time he became partial owner).

However, the idea of this new partnership is to help bolster WynnBET’s profile with the support of a prominent sports figure. NEWS: Shaq has been named a brand ambassador for @WynnBET and will be the face of advertising campaigns across TV, digital, and print.

1. To comply with NBA rules, Shaq will have to sell his minority stake in the Sacramento Kings.
2. He’s up ~250% since he acquired the stake in 2013.
3. Pic.twitter.com/vu9t2TLS44 — Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) August 9, 2021 Per the NBA rules, anyone who participates in the sports gambling space must not have a vested interest in any team, as this can create a conflict of interest.

For that reason, when Shaq decided he would enter into the sports gambling space — and, specifically, become a brand ambassador for a sports gambling platform — his ownership in the Kings may have created a conflict of interest.
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Why did Shaq sell Kings?

Shaquille O’Neal officially sells his stake in Sacramento Kings, walks away from ‘our great partnership’ Shaquille O’Neal, who became a partial owner of the in 2013, announced on social media Wednesday that he has officially sold his interest in the NBA club.

O’Neal, 49, who retired from the NBA in 2011 and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016, posted on his official Twitter page that in order to pursue a business interest in the sports gambling world, he had to leave the Kings. “As a result of a new business endeavor, I was required by NBA rules to sell my interest in the Sacramento Kings.

I want to thank the fans, the city of Sacramento, Vivek Ranadive and the entire Kings organization for our great partnership. I loved being an owner of such a forward thinking organization and I hope to be back someday,”, “I was fortunate to have Arctos help me with this transaction. Along with appearing in television, print and digital promotions, the Sports Business Journal also reported that O’Neal will appear on WynnBet-sponsored podcasts produced at a casino in Las Vegas. In an August interview with Complex.com, O’Neal spoke highly of his prospects with WynnBet, especially as sports gambling gains a stronger presence across all media.

“We believe WynnBet is going to be the next big player in sports betting and iGaming space. And I’m all about challenges,” he told Complex. “I’m all about good business. I’m all about helping people, making people smile and I thought this was a great opportunity to get in this space.” The four-time NBA champion made the announcement on a night when one of his former clubs, the, met the Kings in Sacramento.

The Kings entered Wednesday’s game at 16-27, tied for 12th place in the Western Conference with the, : Shaquille O’Neal officially sells his stake in Sacramento Kings, walks away from ‘our great partnership’
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Is Winning Time realistic?

‘Winning Time’ Season 1: Separating NBA facts from fiction in HBO’s Lakers series There’s no doubt that “Winning Time: The Rise of Lakers Dynasty” has been a surprise hit for HBO given its worthy critical acclaim and robust viewership numbers. While fans of the throwback docudrama series wait for its Season 2 spin on one of NBA history’s greatest teams, there’s still plenty to unwrap from a blockbuster Season 1.

Although much of “Winning Time” is based on actual events as chronicled in Jeff Pearlman’s best-selling non-fiction book “Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s” there are some liberties taken for dramatic effect. MORE: Here’s how much Season 1 stuck to the true story vs. stretching the truth through composites with more entertaining television in mind:

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Why didn t jerry tarkanian coach the Lakers?

Did a Mob Hit Really Prevent Jerry Tarkanian From Coaching the Lakers? “The Best Is Yet to Come” — the third episode of HBO’s Winning Time, which aired on Sunday night — ends on a shocking note. After meeting with Jerry Buss and negotiating a deal that would bring University of Nevada, Las Vegas head coach Jerry Tarkanian onboard to coach the Lakers, Tarkanian’s close friend and business manager Vic Weiss is found dead in the trunk of his car, Buss’s business card stuck to his cheek.

The implication on the show is that the mobsters who had been staring Weiss down from afar at the restaurant during his meeting with Buss whacked him because they didn’t want Tarkanian signing a lucrative deal with the Lakers. (The show doesn’t exactly delve into why the mafia would be so opposed to Tarkanian coaching the team, but it makes several vague references to Weiss’s gambling debt.

Presumably he’d get a cut of Tarkanian’s earnings as his business manager, so one would think that the new, high-paying gig would actually be mutually beneficial.) But Winning Time has been known to take some creative liberties, so it’s worth asking: is this really how it all went down? Jim Hecht, co-creator of Winning Time, insists it is,, “This murder has never been solved by the police.

• I didn’t know, as a huge Lakers fan, that Jerry Tarkanian had been hired! They did the contracts.
• It was a done deal.
• I didn’t know about what happened to Victor Weiss, being stuffed into his trunk.
• It’s all absolutely true.” In actuality, it’s mostly true.
• Tarkanian had, in fact, been hired by the Lakers shortly before Weiss’s murder.

(His grief and shock over the death of his friend combined with his desire to stay in Las Vegas ultimately led him to turn down the gig.) “A mere three days earlier, on the evening of June 14, Weiss had seemed to be the happiest man on the planet,” Jeff Pearlman writes in Showtime, the book on which Winning Time is based.

1. A fifty-one-year-old sports promoter who served as Jerry Tarkanian’s representative, he had bounded out the front entrance of the Beverly-Comstock Hotel, euphoric in the knowledge that his client was about to be named the new coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.
2. Those were the words Cooke and Buss had just used during their meeting — ‘We’re excited to have Jerry as the new coach of the Lakers.

‘” Weiss was, in fact, found dead in the trunk of his car on June 17, 1979, and the June 14 meeting with Buss was the last time he had been seen alive. He had been shot execution-style in the head twice, and while his wallet and briefcase were gone, his diamond ring and watch had not been taken, leading police to rule out robbery as a motive.

• Contrary to the Winning Time depiction, however, Buss’s business card was not found on his body.
• The murder was never solved, but it seems more likely that Weiss was killed over the $60,000 in gambling debts he owed than over his involvement in a potential Lakers deal.
• Pearlman also notes that around the time of his death, he had been traveling back and forth between Los Angeles and Las Vegas to “deliver bundles of laundered cash,” from which he was believed to have been skimming money.

“He had been warned repeatedly to stop, and, police suspected, was killed when he didn’t,” Pearlman writes. Thanks for reading InsideHook, for our daily newsletter and be in the know. : Did a Mob Hit Really Prevent Jerry Tarkanian From Coaching the Lakers?
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Did Jack McKinney get lost in the Forum?

Each week, we’ll be looking back on the newest episode of HBO’s “Winning Time” and fact-checking or adding more details on some of the key and bigger plot points by using the book “Showtime: MAGIC, KAREEM, RILEY, AND THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS DYNASTY OF THE 1980S” By Jeff Pearlman.

The standoff between Paul Westhead and Jack McKinney came to a conclusion in episode nine of “Winning Time,” with Dr. Jerry Buss making the decision to have Westhead coach through the playoffs. As we discussed in our initial piece fact-checking the penultimate episode of season one, the timeline of the decision in the show did not match the timeline of the decision in real life.

But the circumstances around it did play out in a similar fashion. Like the show displayed, McKinney did struggle with his memory after the accident. The point was really hammered home in a couple of scenes on Sunday, including him getting lost in the hallways of The Forum as he’s trying to exit.

1. Another occurrence of the issues McKinney was experiencing came when he was at home with his wife, and Dr.
2. Buss stopped by for a visit.
3. It appeared the visit could have been to tell McKinney that he would be the coach moving forward, but at the front door, McKinney didn’t recognize Buss, at which point Buss seems to change his mind.

It’s implied the moment served as one of the key factors — and maybe the main and final one — in Buss eventually deciding to go with Westhead as head coach for the rest of the year. While that’s not exactly how the situation played out in real life, there was an instance in which McKinney did not recognize Buss.

In “Showtime,” Pearlman wrote about the recovery process McKinney went through and the impact it had on him and his family before his eventual dismissal, and the section included a moment when McKinney didn’t recognize his boss (emphasis mine): Fired? Just because his name ceased appearing in the Los Angeles Times didn’t mean McKinney’s fight for survival wasn’t remarkable.

He had been in a coma for three days and a semicomatose state for three weeks. More than 40 percent of head-injury victims never return to normal, and 60 percent can’t return to work within the first vear. Between the time of the accident and his phantom dismissal, McKinney had been through months of excruciating physical and cognitive therapy.

“I had so many things by the fall,” McKinney said. “My mouth, my lips, plastic surgery, a broken bone in my ear that controls your equilibrium. I lost all the power on one side of my body. If I leaned over to pick something up, I would fall over.” Dennis McKinney, Jack and Claire’s youngest child, remembers his father offering to drive him to high school one day.

“He thought he was doing better than he really was,” Dennis said. “The ride was terrifying. To the right, to the left, to the right. Just swerving all over. My dad’s balance was really off.” Come December, doctors thought McKinney could attend a Laker game as a spectator.

He was warmly approached by Buss, who asked how his rehab was going. McKinney remained silent. Not out of rudeness—he didn’t recognize the man. “But my dad was such a positive guy,” said Susan McKinney-DeOrtega, his oldest child. “Even when he was at his lowest, in so much pain, struggling just to remember, he told us he was going to beat it.

And he believed it.” Rather tragically, McKinney would never fully recover from his injuries, and even later admitted to Pearlman that “Dr. Buss wasn’t wrong. I wasn’t ready.” In interviewing with Pearlman for the book decades later, he couldn’t remember which team he coached Spencer Haywood on, either.

1. McKinney would go on to coach the Pacers after Buss helped land him a head coaching job the next season.
2. But while he won Coach of the Year in 1980-81 after leading Indiana to 44 wins and a playoff berth, his memory issues persisted, and eventually forced him out of the league (emphasis mine): As we sit here, still talking, still sipping water, McKinney glances through the folder, searching for faded memories and long-lost sparks.

He would coach again, hired by the Indiana Pacers at the behest of a guilt-ravaged Jerry Buss, the Lakers’ owner. Yet despite being named the league’s Coach of the Year in 1980-81, he was never the same. Members of the Pacers took the unprecedented step of writing their names in black marker along the front of their shorts so their coach wouldn’t get confused.

Later, in a game during his final coaching stint, with Kansas City, several Kings players told the media that, during a time-out, McKinney characterized a play as one “just like we did against St. John’s”—a reference to the New York City school he coached against while at Saint Joseph’s a decade earlier.

Ultimately, McKinney left the NBA altogether, devoting the remainder of his working days to selling sporting goods. He watched the NBA from time to time, but the pain of what could (and should) have been far outweighed any morsels of momentary joy that came from sitting on the couch for Lakers- Celtics,

1. McKinney is not a bitter man, but he is human.
2. Life isn’t always fair,” he says.
3. I’m OK with how everything has turned out.
4. I’m loved.
5. But, well, it’s not always fair.” In his apartment, there is only a single hint that he ever coached the Lakers—a crystal wine carafe with LAKERs etched along the side.

Occasionally, Riley, now the president of the Miami Heat, will leave McKinney tickets for a game. “He always says, ‘This is the guy who made my career possible,” McKinney says. “This is the guy.” McKinney — who passed away in 2018 — was also the subject of a separate piece from Pearlman for The Athletic shortly before his death, a story that looked more into his life after basketball.
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What is the biggest win in poker history?

Antonio Esfandiari – $18.35 million – The biggest live tournament poker win in history is Antonio Esfandiari’s victory in the 2012 WSOP Big One for One Drop. Beating a total field of 48 entrants, Esfandiari won over $18 million from one single tournament.
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Who is the most famous poker player?

There are some huge names in the game of poker – names that have taken the game to new levels, with their exquisite skill, interesting personalities and amazing achievements. If you’re serious about poker, you need to know about the biggest players to ever play the game, and you can find out about them when you read the famous poker player profiles on this page Some of the biggest names in the game of poker include Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari, Erik Seidel, and Phil Hellmuth.

These players have won numerous championships and tournaments, and they are widely regarded as some of the best poker players in the world. In addition to their exceptional skills, they are known for their interesting personalities and their ability to entertain and engage with their fans. Whether they are playing in high-stakes tournaments or casual games with friends, these poker players have helped to make the game more exciting and engaging.

They have pushed the boundaries of what is possible in the game, and they have inspired many other players to pursue their dreams and become the best that they can be. As a result, poker is more popular than ever, and it continues to grow and evolve as a game.
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How much did the bus family buy the Lakers for?

Ken Levine/Getty Images By his passing on Monday at the age of 80, Dr. Jerry Buss should be remembered for his ubiquitous impact on professional sports, his unprecedented success as an owner in the modern game, and his triumph as a businessman who treated everyone he came across with dignity and respect.

Humble Beginnings A self-made man, Jerry Buss lived a rags-to-riches tale emblematic of the American Dream. A Great Depression-era child living at the poverty line in Wyoming, Gerald Hatten “Jerry” Buss experienced the hardships of a blue-collar lifestyle and began working at a young age. Early on, Buss worked for his stepfather’s plumbing business—waking up at 4:30 in the morning to dig ditches in frozen ground for three hours before school.

Later in high school, Buss worked at a local hotel making two dollars a day. He soon quit school to work for the railroad, eventually returning to receive his undergraduate degree from the University of Wyoming and a doctorate in physical chemistry from USC.

Saving money from his first job out of USC, in 1959, Buss recruited four other investors to purchase a 14-unit rental apartment in West Los Angeles for a $6,000 down payment and $100,000 loan from the bank. Eighteen years later, Buss turned this $6,000 down payment into a $350 million real estate empire.

Visionary and Innovator In 1979, Dr. Jerry Buss purchased the Lakers in a multifaceted $67.5 million deal that included the Lakers, the NHL Kings, the Great Western Forum in Inglewood and a 13,000-acre ranch in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Buss had a vision from the start: make the idea of going to a basketball game an all-out entertainment spectacle.

1. And so, the concept of “sports entertainment” was born.
2. At his newly-owned Great Western Forum, Buss added entertainment aspects that had never been thought of by any owner in any other sport.
3. He added cheerleaders (the now world famous Laker girls), added music and fanfare during breaks in the action, introduced a house band to play live music (which, to this day, still lives on and performs at STAPLES Center during player warm-ups) and delivered a complete entertainment experience to anyone with a ticket to the game.

Dr. Jerry Buss also mastered the concept of “premium seating.” He wasn’t the first to structure tiered pricing for seats at his arena, but he was most certainly the best at it. Buss created the Forum Club—an exclusive VIP sanctuary for celebrities and LA rainmakers to engage in drink and merriment before games—and made courtside seating the premier destination for Hollywood celebrities, turning the atmosphere of a sporting event on its head.

• Recalls sports writer Vincent Bonsignore, the environment at Laker games during the ’80s was “a mixture of the Oscars and the Grammy Awards with a little bit of the Playboy Mansion and Studio 54 mixed in.” Before Buss, courtside seats were reserved for the press and media.
• Thanks to Buss’ vision, courtside seats have become valuable attractions and important profit generators for teams today.

A Genuine “People Person” Having walked with kings after living among commoners, Buss was a charismatic, calm and personable owner quite uncommon for a man of his fortune. From the bottom to the top levels of society, Buss treated all with the same genuine interest and respect.

There are plenty of legendary tales about encounters with Jerry Buss, whether it was throwing parties for the custodial workers and security guards at the Great Western Forum or choosing to wait with the masses for a poker table at Hollywood Park Casino. It seems everyone in the greater Los Angeles area has their own Jerry Buss story.

I had the good fortune of meeting Dr. Jerry Buss after a USC Trojans basketball game in 2010. As fan of the game, Dr. Jerry Buss would attend USC basketball games during the Lakers offseason at the Galen Center in Downtown Los Angeles. With his tattered jeans, white socks and an unbuttoned dress shirt rare for a self-made billionaire, Dr.

Buss regularly sat in seats available to the general public and unassumingly took in the game. After one game, I saw Dr. Jerry Buss making his way seamlessly through the crowds to the exits, no one noticing that the Lakers’ owner was actually walking beside them. I tracked him down, extended my hand and said “Dr.

Buss? Thanks for everything you’ve done for the Lakers. You’re the best in the business.” “Why thank you,” he said, shaking my hand. “I appreciate that.” And off he went. Thirty seconds was all it took to let him know of my gratitude as a lifelong Lakers fan.

Even after winning multiple championships and befriending every celebrity in Hollywood during his ownership of the Lakers, Dr. Jerry Buss was still as genuine and approachable as ever. Management Style Dr. Jerry Buss ran his organization through a simple formula: hire the best, most talented people and get the heck out of their way.

This was a very hands-off approach and a stark contrast to the management style of the previous Lakers’ owner—cable magnate and serial sports entrepreneur Jack Kent Cooke. Bringing in legendary basketball minds, such as Bill Sharman, Jerry West, Phil Jackson and Mitch Kupchak, and bestowing them with all the authority necessary to make decisions has been Buss’ key to successful management over the past three and half decades.

1. Through a $3.6 billion television deal with Time Warner Cable—the largest in franchise history and last major deal before his passing—Buss has left his self-made fortune to his family and his team financially secure for the next two decades.
2. Jeanie Buss will take over for her father and serve as the team’s governor, giving her the Lakers’ vote at owners’ meetings, while Jim Buss will oversee the basketball operations alongside Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak.

Remembering Dr. Jerry Buss True to his nature, Dr. Jerry Buss graciously waited until the All-Star Weekend was over to leave this world rather than overshadow the sports entertainment spectacle of the weekend—a spectacle he arguably invented. He never wanted the spotlight.

1. All he wanted was to win.
2. And boy, did he ever.
3. In his 34 years as owner of the Lakers, his teams went to the NBA Finals a ridiculous 16 times and won 10 NBA championships. Dr.
4. Jerry Buss was a Wyoming kid with big eyes and a full heart living out his American Dream.
5. Today, it’s about celebrating his life, his contributions to the city of LA and his inimitable impact on the sport.

Dr. Jerry Buss was truly one of a kind and will go down as the greatest owner in Los Angeles, if not, the entire sport. Rest in Peace and Fight On, JB.
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What did Jerry Buss do for the Lakers?

Philanthropy – In January 2008, Buss donated $7.5 million to USC’s Department of Chemistry to fund two endowed chairs and an endowed scholarship fund for chemistry graduate students; the two chairs were to be named after his mentors at USC, Professors Sidney Benson and David Dows.

1. Buss was an inaugural member of the USC College Board of Councilors.
2. His philanthropy also extended to people associated with the Lakers.
3. When former Lakers player Walt Hazzard, then an adviser to the team, suffered a catastrophic stroke in 1996, Buss kept Hazzard on the payroll and told Hazzard’s son that his father would remain a Lakers employee for as long as Buss owned the team.

When Hazzard died in 2011, he was still a Lakers employee.
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Is Jerry Buss a Hall of Famer?

Early life and business career – Born in Salt Lake City, Buss was raised by his divorced mother, Jessie. His father, Lydus, was an accountant who went on to teach statistics at Berkeley. When he was nine years old, he moved with his mother to Los Angeles ; they moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming, three years later when she remarried.

• Buss earned a scholarship to the University of Wyoming, graduating with a BS degree in two and a half years in 1953.
• He then returned to Los Angeles and attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he earned an MS and PhD in physical chemistry in 1957 at the age of 24.
• Buss started as a chemist for the Bureau of Mines (now the Mine Safety and Health Administration); he then briefly worked in the aerospace industry and was on the faculty of USC’s chemistry department.

Buss originally went to invest in real estate in order to provide an income so he could continue teaching. His first investment in the 1960s was $1,000 in a West Los Angeles apartment building. Finding great success in the real estate business, he, along with longtime business partner, Frank Mariani, formed real estate investment company Mariani-Buss Associates.
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Are the Lakers still a Buss family owned team?

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Who is Gerald Hatten Buss?

Jerry Buss
Buss at the 2009 World Series of Poker
Born	Gerald Hatten Buss January 27, 1933 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Died	February 18, 2013 (aged 80) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California
Alma mater	University of Wyoming (BS) University of Southern California (MS, PhD)
Occupation	Businessman investor chemist poker player philanthropist
Known for	Owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Sparks
Spouse	JoAnn Mueller (divorced)
Partner	Karen Demel
Children	6, including Johnny Jim Jeanie

Gerald Hatten Buss (January 27, 1933 – February 18, 2013) was an American businessman, investor, chemist, and philanthropist. He was the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning 10 league championships that were highlighted by the team’s Showtime era during the 1980s.
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