Buss Family 1 Member Buss 2 Both Chicagoans and Bostonians have become fans of the Lakers. When watching Lakers games, they will choose to support the Lakers instead of identifying with their own hometown team.
In 1985, Buss co-founded a regional cable sports station called "First Ticket" with cable TV pioneer Daniels ***, which broadcast Lakers home games and also broadcast some other local sports events. 3 Buss Family
No one can compete with her/472657085 Although Jenny Bass is gaining momentum, Jenny is not the first person on the Bass family’s succession list.
Jerry Buss has owned the majority of the Lakers for 23 years.
Jerry Buss, 69, has gradually passed on the rights to his four adult children in recent years.
Jerry Buss’ two sons are Johnny Buss, 46, and Jimmy Buss, 43.
The two daughters are 41-year-old Jenny Bass and 39-year-old Jani Bass.
These four children were born to Bass and his first wife.
They have long been divorced.
Now, Buss Sr. is also sorting out the futures for his other three.
He and his current wife have two children, Joey, 18, and Jesse, 14.
Another child is 33-year-old Sean.
Sean is from Bath and another woman.
Now Buss is testing Sean to serve as a scout for the Lakers.
Jenny said: "My brothers and sisters will one day hold positions in the Lakers." Buss, who is approaching his 70s, has gradually separated from his daily work.
He rarely comes to the Lakers offices now.
Moreover, Jenny's two brothers have made it clear that they would rather play small roles in the Lakers dynasty.
Jeanie Buss's sister, Janie, feels more about her family than she does about the Lakers dynasty.
So Jenny had to play a big role in running things for the Lakers.
Among the seven children of Bass Sr., except for Jenny, they have no interest in leading the sports world in Los Angeles.
Johnny Bass, the eldest son, returned to Los Angeles after their relationship with his fiancée Diane Fromholtz broke down and continued working for his father.
First, in the real estate industry, and then in indoor soccer.
But after the 1984 season, due to financial difficulties in indoor football, Johnny resigned.
Johnny recalled this period of life and said: "I felt that I spent so much energy and gave up on my life and failed to achieve success. For me, this is a great harm." Jimmy Bass
Same idea as my brother.
Although he helped his father run a football team, he was unwilling to work for his father.
One thing Jimmy often talks about is: "I don't want to always receive wages from my father." Jimmy believes that his strength is training racehorses, and after several years of doing this, he has achieved some results.
Later, his father told him that Jerry West helped establish the Lakers dynasty in the 1980s and established the Lakers' latest three championship teams.
But he may need to leave the Lakers dynasty.
He hopes that his son Jimmy will take over Jerry West's class.
From then on, Jimmy became the shadow of Jerry West.
Go to colleges and basketball training camps with him to watch games and select a successor for the Lakers.
From Jimmy's point of view, his scouting job is almost the same as his horse selection, except that one involves picking horses and the other involves selecting people.
In this regard, Jimmy vividly described: "When you watch an athlete play, the content is almost the same. I never judge the pros and cons of various horses to people. Because it is unfair. But as a scout,
I have to negotiate good and bad with the player group." Now, West has left the Lakers.
However, Jimmy still did not replace West.
His role now is little more than a sounding board between his father and current general manager Mitch Kupchak.
"If my father likes an athlete and Kupchak is satisfied, I will go back to my father and explain to him." Bass's youngest daughter Jani is now a standard virtuous person.
A good wife and mother.
Last season, after the Lakers defeated their archrivals, the Sacramento Kings, in Game 7, instead of cheering in the streets, she gave her two children a bath.
Jani said: "Family is the most important thing to me. Jani and her husband have lived together for 11 years. What Jani loves most is her husband David Dreikese and their 9-year-old son
Reilly and 5-year-old Serena, as well as the family's pet cat and dog. She is now responsible for the financial work of the Los Angeles Lakers' youth foundation and other non-profit social welfare undertakings. "The media does not know me."
. But I was involved in my father's business. It's just that people don't often hear about it. "The Buss family owns a mountain of money.
The Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA) and Laser Rays (indoor American football team, considering that there is no NFL team in Los Angeles, the Buss family can be considered to control the American football market in this city), controlled by Jerry's eldest son Johnny Buss, the Lakers "
The Los Angeles Kings (NHL) under the small owner "Philip Ansfields" (who controls 25% of the Lakers), the Buss family almost completely controls the Los Angeles sports circle.
Controlling Los Angeles means controlling Hollywood, and controlling Hollywood means having global entertainment influence.