“Why are we paying all these players on the bench when we can run lean with just 5 players on the roster”

NBA Players Union should probably have an emergency meeting to figure out the ramifications down the line.

New owners might stage a lockout so they can claw back BPI% from the next CBA

Capitalism ruins everything.

There is no choice but to go the VC/PE bro way; who else has the liquidity to pay these inflated asset prices?

hey, I’m with you, it sucks

but what about the shady businessmen or slumlords who made all their money exploiting poor people to get rich in the 60s and 70s and owned teams into the 00s

what I’m saying is, it pretty much always sucks

6 Sigma cutting is gonna hit hard

Eh, no worse to me than the nepo era. Loved Jerry Buss but didn’t care for his kids.

They all voted to sell

she had no allies left

“At least five of the six siblings voted to sell, sources said.”

Hey she still has Jay Mohr

Sounds like it was just a last ditch effort. I doubt she thought it was going to be successful.

Difference was Jeanie spent time spinning PR to make her look better. Netflix’s Running Point & HBO’s Winning Time are basically propaganda for her (and her dad).

The poverty version

They definitely weren’t serious people.

No the Murdoch’s are considering the show parallels their lives

Dude… lebron left because him, luka, and AR with or without Kessler (assuming bron took the minimum) arent winning shit. Every year after the 2020 ring has been a slow dismantling of a championship team.

Did you see OKC taking turns on Reaves in the playoffs? Same shit with Luka last year too. Their wing defense is BBQ chicken

Rich Paul or someone said that the new ownership (mark Walter ) basically pushed LeBron out

Brother , it was 100 percent pelinka. Bron has hated him for awhile now esp when rob sent out multiple hit pieces that the Russ trade was all due to bron and AD.

It’s exactly why he left. He knew ownership and Pelinka wanted to move on from him. Any other owner and GM would have built a wining roster and he would have stayed in LA

Meh. That’s too hot of a take. Lebron left because the team had zero chance at winning a chip. Simplest explanation is typically the most correct.

The Lakers were also tired of his drama, so were happy to part ways.

Lebron left because they are building an all white squad. Either that or he couldn’t wait to get away from bronny.

That’s because their entire net worth was tied into the Lakers and none of them were fit to run the organization.

Honestly should have sold when Dr. Buss passed. This type of succession planning between this many people never goes smoothly.

Dr Buss’ trust pretty much guaranteed infighting, because it gave all the power to one sibling (Jeanie) so she wouldn’t want to sell the team, while simultaneously screwing over 5 of the 6 siblings’ families unless the team was eventually sold while they were still alive.

They sold to one of the only families that is more dysfunctional

Walter had first right of refusal due to his previous co-ownership agreement.

Would they have honestly gone for significantly more last year?

Even last year’s valuation puts them top-5 in US sports franchises.

It’s also the highest for a franchise without their own arena attached to the valuation.

I don’t think their sticking point was the Buss’ holding out for more. They simply didn’t want to sell. She was the one who wanted to cash out and remain as governor.

Don’t get me wrong, I think she comes off looking bad here but the rest of the leeches in that family look like desperate buffoons as well.

Sure as much as someone can get fucked getting a billion dollars plus lmao

I don’t think “Running Point” isn’t really trying that hard for accuracy. The target demographic, my wife for instance, found out the show was loosely based around the Lakers ownership situation after she finished season 1.

The off season drama is just as entertaining as the in season games..