Buss is the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, a basketball team her father purchased in 1979. The team was valued ...

Jeanie Buss, controlling owner of Los Angeles Lakers, has overseen significant financial growth since 2013. Her father, Dr.

While the spotlight often shines on the superstars, the Lakers’ sustained greatness is equally a product of unsung heroes.

From the moment the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers were set to collide, the weight of history leaned on both franchises. This was the first of three Finals they met in that decade.

1978-91: The showtime Lakers had arrived. The Lakers had drafted Magic Johnson in 1979 and they already had Kareem Abdul Jabbar on their roster. That very year in Magic’s rookie season the ...

Among the oldest franchises, the Los Angeles Lakers are considered among the most reputable in the National Basketball Association.

Johnson did this three times as a 20-year-old rookie during the 1979-80 campaign, per Stathead, but no other Lakers rookie has achieved such a stat line before turning 22. (Others do it at that ...

"We underestimated the Lakers, if anything ... Even before the 1991 Finals, the top pick of the 1979 Draft had already earned his spot among the greatest ever to play in the league.