Yaron Weitzman
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And I guess I don't.
So that would be a problem.
I'll answer that.
Yeah, I'm still surprised.
I feel like we have not yet been given.
So the book finished like I basically got a paragraph in on the sale, but I still feel like we have not been given a good reason why they sold the team.
Everyone says, you know, $10 billion valuation, $10 billion valuation.
I mean, Jeannie Buss has no kids, and mom and pop, they were still making millions of dollars off the team.
The big winner in this is Jay Moore, honestly.
He was the big winner in the Lakers sale, like that guy and his kids.
And the background here is, so Jeannie, the six siblings,
everyone or you know there was another one who came out of the woodwork later on but six major ones four from the original marriage and two uh younger ones the way the trust was divided is basically you need four to decide to sell the team the two younger ones never wanted to three older ones always did genie was always a swing vote she was always no no no until now and the part i find interesting and this is stuff you know you uncover as you're looking at it but like
After she kind of got rid of her brother and she took over the team, she would always talk about how the Buss family, it was her dad's dream to have them in the family and have the Lakers, excuse me, in the Buss family for years and the family legacy and all that.
And that lasted, I don't know, maybe 10 years, a generation before she decided to sell the team.
So I think it's surprising and I still don't think we've been given a good reason why they were sold.
So, OK, so, OK, Bronny's the best example, but I will say we can get to that.
One of the more interesting things that kind of I learned was that the idea of the clutch Lakers, it's overblown.
Right.
And like.
The most obvious example is the โ and this is public โ with the Ty Lue coaching search in 2019.