The Laker girls, the Forum Club, Showtime — it starts with Jerry Buss, Jeanie Buss and Magic Johnson as the ultimate conductor. The NBA changed forever when the Buss family took over in 1979 ...

Under Jerry, it became the hottest nightclub in town, and it further cemented the idea of Laker games as the place to be seen. (Let’s just say it wasn’t for the timid or the puritanical.) ...

Jerry Buss was a chemist and USC instructor who heavily leveraged his real estate investments to buy the Lakers, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings, the Forum arena and a large ranch from Jack Kent Cooke ...

The sale, as reported by ESPN, comes 46 years after Dr. Jerry Buss bought the Los Angeles basketball team The post Buss Family to Sell LA Lakers to Dodgers Owner Mark Walter for $10 Billion ...

Jerry Buss empowered West One of West's defining qualities is his resilience. After all, this was a man who had lost in the NBA Finals eight times before finally winning one in 1972.

3. Shaq-Kobe Era & Three‑Peat (2000-2002) Jerry West’s 1996 trade for Kobe Bryant and the free-agent signing of Shaquille O’Neal, one orchestrated under Buss, transformed the Lakers.

But you knew who Jerry Buss was when he strolled into the building with beautiful women on his arm. It felt very authentic to Los Angeles in the 1980s when the franchise merged Hollywood with itself.