There are employees within the Los Angeles Lakers who reportedly aren’t terribly upset by Los Angeles Dodgers’ owner Mark Walter selling the team to Bob Iger and Josh Kushner for $12.5 billion. <\/p>\n
According to Dan Woike<\/a> of The Athletic, “The pending changes\u2014Iger and Kushner’s groups are in their ‘diligence’ phase of the purchase\u2014have certainly caused some anxiety for employees bracing for another ownership change. The last transition, from the longstanding familial touches of the Buss family to a more bottom-line-driven Walter regime, included multiple rounds of layoffs. Still, multiple sources in different departments expressed optimism about the direction of the franchise under Iger and Kushner. Some felt the Dodgers’ impact on the Lakers was pushing too hard toward analytics and doing so with an arrogance that turned off some people in basketball operations and the locker room. Those people weren’t upset to see a pathway for new management to come in, even if it’s a bit of a mystery and doesn’t have the track record of the Dodgers’ success.”<\/p>\n