Jeannie Buss used Jim Buss’s incompetence to fully take over the Lakers. She used Jesse, Joey, and Janie as allies to do so. She then told Jesse that he and Joey shouldn’t have been born and fired all 3 of her allied siblings. Now she herself is being forced out.
Johnny Buss the oldest sibling was never interested in the Lakers that much and had been looking to get out since his father died. Once Jim Buss got fired, Johnny and Jim tried to stage a coup to oust Jeanie and sell the team. It didn’t work.
Janie Buss in 2018 per ESPN:
I’m really proud of my sister for putting her business hat on,” Janie Buss says. “I know how hard it was. My dad’s dying wish was to leave the Lakers to all of us and that we would all get along. He’d be sickened if he saw what was going on with my older brothers.
Jesse Buss on Jim Buss trying to sell the team:
You’re really taking down the entire family with you,” Jesse says. “I don’t think any of us really need that money outside of them. We all live very comfortably. Why not just be happy with what our dad left you?”
With Jeannie’s behind the scenes shenanigans, the Buss siblings are singing a different tune. Jesse and Joey have had multiple interviews where they skewered Jeanie publicly and Janie has been quoted as feeling insulted when she was let go.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6824483/2025/11/20/lakers-jesse-buss-fired-jeanie-mark-walter/