{"id":948550,"date":"2026-10-27T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948550\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:28:11","slug":"espn-takes-deep-dive-into-l-a-lakers-sale-to-iger-kushner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948550\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN takes deep dive into L.A. Lakers\u2019 sale to Iger\/Kushner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 21: Jeanie Buss (L) and Mark Walter attend a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors at Crypto.com Arena on October 21, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and\/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Allen Berezovsky\/Getty Images)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NDYENYZJ3RFTPKFH64PFQ3JF5A.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>ESPN.com spoke with \u201cmore than a dozen team insiders, league executives and others\u201d about the Lakers\u2019 sale from Mark Walter to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner. Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">ESPN.com spoke with \u201cmore than a dozen team insiders, league executives and others\u201d about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/12\/report-mark-walter-selling-lakers-to-josh-kushner-bob-iger-for-record-12b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/12\/report-mark-walter-selling-lakers-to-josh-kushner-bob-iger-for-record-12b\/\">the Lakers\u2019 sale<\/a> from Mark Walter to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner. The piece revealed how the deal, which was \u201cmade over a furious 72 hours, upstaged an already-transformative offseason &#8212; and reignited yet another unresolved round of messy public bickering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/27\/jeanie-buss-moves-to-block-siblings-sale-of-lakers-stake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/27\/jeanie-buss-moves-to-block-siblings-sale-of-lakers-stake\/\">among the six Buss siblings<\/a> that still hangs uncomfortably over the beginning of this new season.\u201d The story dove into what prompted Iger and Kushner to pursue the purchase of the Lakers and pivot away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/06\/29\/report-iger-kushner-discuss-bid-for-las-vegas-nba-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/06\/29\/report-iger-kushner-discuss-bid-for-las-vegas-nba-team\/\">NBA expansion in Las Vegas<\/a>, 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 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/50287529\/los-angeles-lakers-sale-mark-walter-iger-kushner-luka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN.com, 10\/27<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN.com spoke with \u201cmore than a dozen team insiders, league executives and others\u201d about the Lakers\u2019 sale from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[461,49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-948550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}