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Did Jerry Buss make the right decision by keeping Kobe over Shaq?
In the summer of 2004, Laker owner Jerry Buss was faced with an extremely hard decision: Kobe Bryant or Shaquille O'Neal. The two superstars were feuding and Buss had to choose one Hall of Famer over another. Buss chose Bryant, a decision that Los...
Tags: Shaquille O'Neal, Bill Plaschke, Kobe Bryant
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In keeping Kobe Bryant, not Shaq, Jerry Buss made right call
It was the summer of 2004, and an aging sports owner was faced with a decision for the ages. It was a choice between two small words with giant ramifications. It was a hurried selection that would last forever. Kobe or Shaq? The debate had raged for...
Tags: Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Gerald Wallace, Los Angeles Lakers, Michael Jordan
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Dennis Rodman urges Barack Obama to call his new BFF Kim Jong Un
It’s a real-life scenario so bizarre and outlandish it seems like it was dreamed up by the writers of “South Park” or “30 Rock”: Retired NBA player turned C-list reality star Dennis Rodman travels to North Korea, becomes...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Dennis Rodman, Politics, Human Rights, George Stephanopoulos
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Lakers' Week 18 in review
The Lakers continued their pursuit of a playoff berth, finishing Week 18 at .500 with a 30-30 record. The team dropped the week's opener on Monday to the Denver Nuggets, 119-108. Metta World Peace was retroactively given a flagrant foul (level 2)...Tags: Atlanta Hawks, Kobe Bryant, Mike D'Antoni, Adidas AG, MGM Resorts International
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It was USC that made him Dr. Jerry Buss
Jerry Buss did not enroll as a USC graduate student with aspirations of becoming one of the most successful owners in professional sports history. As a youngster, he thought he might be a photographer. But in high school, he shifted his focus to...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, USC Trojans, Politics, Financial Aid
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Cashing in their championships
1979-80 FINALS Lakers 4, Philadelphia 76ers 2 An old dog, a new trickster and birth of 'Showtime' "Showtime" began as 20-year-old rookie Magic Johnson inspired this talented team to first in the Pacific Division. After four close games in the...
Tags: Jeff Lamp, A.C. Green, Detroit Pistons, Derek Fisher, Jim Brewer
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How Jerry Buss came to own the Lakers, the Kings and the Forum
Word got around that Jack Kent Cooke wanted to cash out. It was 1977 and the Lakers owner had entered into a divorce that would eventually cost $41 million, a sum worthy of the Guinness World Records for the most costly marital split in history at...Tags: New York City, Realty, Services and Shopping, Donald Sterling, Magic Johnson
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And now, the rest of the story about Jerry Buss
It took several cups of coffee and a couple of hours one recent morning to realize there was still so much more to know about Jerry Buss. The coffee was shared with Bob Steiner, Buss' longtime public relations advisor and general confidant. We...
Tags: Kobe Bryant, Mike Brown (basketball), Phil Jackson, Los Angeles Lakers, Jerry West
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Jerry Buss' everlasting purple and bold effect
Jerry Buss may be gone, but Jerry Buss hasn't gone anywhere. Jerry Buss may have died on Feb. 18 at age 80, but Jerry Buss lives. When watching the Lakers makes you howl, when watching the NBA makes you smile, when watching anything in professional...
Tags: Los Angeles Lakers, Celine Dion, HIV, Grammy Awards, David Stern
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Jerry Buss and Earvin Johnson made magic together
The beloved mentor and his favorite student spent their final hours together holding hands on a hospital bed. Jerry Buss was entering the final stage of his life after a long battle with cancer, and he wanted to spend some of it with Magic Johnson....
Tags: Music, NBA Draft, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Kobe Bryant, Orlando Magic
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Jerry Buss used team tennis, roller hockey to train his children
Tim Harris once played goalie for the Los Angeles Lazers, an indoor soccer team owned by Jerry Buss. Harris, now an executive with the Lakers, said that as he looks back it was obvious what Buss was doing. "He was setting up these labs for his kids to...
Tags: Ilie Nastase, Major League Soccer, Los Angeles Lakers, Soccer, Sports
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Jerry Buss didn't just put the Kings on ice
Jerry Buss was so strongly associated with the Lakers and their championships that it's easy to forget he was the Kings' second owner — and that they were more to him than a throw-in item when he bought the Lakers, the Forum, the Kings and a 13,000-...
Tags: Luc Robitaille, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings, Paulina Gretzky, Jerry West
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