Jerry Buss

Businessman + Owner

Male

Born Jan 27, 1934

Age 79

Hometown Salt Lake City

Nationality American

Alma Mater University of Wyo...

Other Names Gerard Hatten Buss

Gerald Hatten "Jerry" Buss is an American businessman, poker player, and a former chemist. He is the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team along with other professional sports franchises in Southern California. Announced… Read More

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NBA: Memorial Service for Dr. Jerry Buss

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Feb 21, 2013

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Memorial for Jerry Buss, the owner of basketball giants the Los Angeles Lakers, at the Staples Ce...

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Feb 20, 2013

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Majority owner of Los Angeles Lakers Jerry Buss seen at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, to see K...

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Nov 22, 2011

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NCAA Basketball: Nebraska at Southern California

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Nov 14, 2011

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Jill St Marks

Dated 1990

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Los Angeles
Jul 19, 2012
Yall come get me when Howard is at a press conference in LA sitting next to Jerry Buss and Mitch Kupchak. Till then, everyone can #ead

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Kobe Bryant's Torn Achilles And The Lakers' Potential Amnesty Clause
Huffington Post - Apr 13, 2013

For the first time in his illustrious 17-year NBA career, Kobe Bryant is vulnerable as a basketball player. Friday night during a Los Angeles Lakers win over the Golden State Warriors, Bryant tore his Achilles tendon, taking him out of basketball for six months at the bare minimum. A torn Achilles is a brutally painful injury that typically takes months to heal, but in this case, healing could feasibly take up to a year. Remember, Bryant came into the league at 17 and has log...
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Jerry Buss To Young Girlfriend: 'Keep Quiet'
Huffington Post - Mar 29, 2013

Jerry Buss wrote his much-younger girlfriend, Delia Cortez, into his will, Captain Wag reports in the video above. Cortez, in her late twenties, scored a $5.5 million condo in Hawaii and his 2009 Bently, estimated to be worth about $200,000. Cortez told TMZ that she started dating Buss years ago when she was living in Marina del Rey, Calif. and that, when the relationship got hot and heavy, he moved her to Honolulu to keep things discreet. She s...
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Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
Huffington Post - Feb 27, 2013

Happy Wednesday everyone, here's my Top 5 for February 27, 2013 from Len Berman at www.ThatsSports.com. 1. Quick Hits Will anyone win the NCAA basketball tournament? Another #1 bites the dust as Minnesota takes down Indiana 77-73. It's the seventh time the #1 team has lost this season. Will anyone prevent Miami from winning the NBA title? The Heat made it 12 straight wins with a double overtime win over Sacramento last night. LeBron James had 40 points and 16 assists. India...
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Misha Hyman: The Greatest Duo In Nba History, Or What Could Have Been
Huffington Post Sports - Feb 25, 2013

Dynamic duos in the NBA began with Jerry West, The Logo, and Elgin Baylor, the first high flying power forward the game had ever seen. The Lakers have had a tendency throughout their long illustrious history as an organization to pair superstar talents together in order to win an NBA crown. But that is another story for another day. Elgin Baylor and Jerry West were essentially the LeBron James and the Michael Jordan during the twilight of the NBA. Baylor burst on to the NBA scene...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1934 Birth Born on January 27, 1934.

TEENAGE

1953 19 Years Old Buss worked his way through the University of Wyoming, graduating with a B.S. degree in two and a half years in 1953. … Read More

FORTIES

1979 45 Years Old Buss became an owner in World Team Tennis, the Los Angeles Strings. He purchased the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA along with the Los Angeles Kings hockey team of the NHL, The Forum, and a large ranch from Jack Kent Cooke in 1979. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1999 65 Years Old Later, when the WNBA was formed, Buss took charge of operating that league's Los Angeles franchise, the Los Angeles Sparks. Eventually, all three teams moved into a more modern arena in downtown Los Angeles: Staples Center, which opened in 1999. … Read More

2002 68 Years Old In 2002, when the WNBA was restructured to give its teams individual owners, Buss assumed outright ownership of the Sparks.

2006 72 Years Old He sold the team in 2006. … Read More

2007 73 Years Old On May 29, 2007, Buss was issued a DUI citation after two California Highway Patrol officers saw him driving his gold Mercedes-Benz with a 23 year-old woman on the wrong side of the road in the coastal community of Carlsbad in northern San Diego County. … Read More

2010 76 Years Old … Announced as a member of the 2010 induction class of the Basketball Hall of Fame on April 5, 2010, he was formally enshrined as a contributor to the sport on August 13 of that same year.

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