Buss built the Lakers into a lucrative franchise.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty chronicles the true story of how Jerry Buss turned the Lakers into one of the best dynasties in sports. Before becoming one of the faces of the 1980s Showtime Lakers, Buss earned an MD and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Southern California in 1957.
Winning Time season 2, episode 7 depicts the beginning of the Showtime Lakers dynasty that Buss was able to create in a span of five years. As portrayed in Winning Time season 1, Buss turned a sluggish Lakers team that hadn't appeared in an NBA Finals since 1973 into a fierce competitor in the Western Conference. In his first year as Lakers owner, Buss' Lakers won their seventh NBA Title in franchise history. His $67.
Buss previously owned a controlling interest in the NHL's Los Angeles Kings before selling the rights to the team in 1988. Buss also took control of another prominent Los Angeles franchise in 1996, the WNBA's LA Sparks. Buss sold The Forum in 1999 when the Lakers, Sparks, and Kings moved to the Staples Center, currently known as Crypto.com Arena. Buss took official ownership of the Sparks before selling the team in 2006, winning back-to-back WNBA Championships in 2001 and 2002.
Jerry Buss Was A Prominent Professional High-Stakes Poker Player Outside of his success with the Lakers and other professional sports franchises, Buss was regarded as a prominent high-stakes poker player. He finished in third place at the 1991 World Series of Poker and second place overall in the 2003 World Poker Tour Freeroll Invitational. Buss also appeared on several poker television shows including GSN's High Stakes Poker and NBC's Poker After Dark.
Buss married Veronica Hoff in 1972 while he was allegedly still married to Mueller. Buss later had two more children with girlfriend Karen Demel named Joey and Jesse in 1985 and 1988, respectively. In 1990, a woman nicknamed Puppi Buss sued Jerry in a palimony suit, claiming that Jerry was the father of her child. The truth of that allegation was never made public after a settlement was reached.
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