ESPN.com spoke with “more than a dozen team insiders, league executives and others” about the Lakers’ sale from Mark Walter to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner. Getty Images
ESPN.com spoke with “more than a dozen team insiders, league executives and others” about the Lakers’ sale from Mark Walter to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner. The piece revealed how the deal, which was “made over a furious 72 hours, upstaged an already-transformative offseason — and reignited yet another unresolved round of messy public bickering among the six Buss siblings that still hangs uncomfortably over the beginning of this new season.” The story dove into what prompted Iger and Kushner to pursue the purchase of the Lakers and pivot away from NBA expansion in Las Vegas, why Walter decided to agree to the sale after initially turning down an offer and the impact two team sales in the span of two years had on the Buss siblings (ESPN.com, 10/27).