{"id":9526,"date":"2013-02-19T00:36:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=9526"},"modified":"2014-11-22T03:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T08:18:06","slug":"dr-gerald-hatten-jerry-buss-known-as-the-greatest-owner-of-the-greatest-showtime-nba-franchise-in-history-the-los-angeles-lakers-has-passed-away-at-the-age-of-80-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=9526","title":{"rendered":"DR.GERALD HATTEN “JERRY” BUSS, KNOWN AS THE GREATEST OWNER OF THE GREATEST SHOWTIME NBA FRANCHISE IN HISTORY, THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS, HAS PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 80 YEARS OLD."},"content":{"rendered":"

THE GREATEST OWNER IN THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THIS EARTH, AND THE WHOLE WORLD OF SPORTS WILL BE IN MOURNING, BECAUSE THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS WAS THE GREATEST NBA SHOW ON EARTH, WHICH WAS CREATED BY THE MAN THAT REBUILT THE NBA, DR. GERALD HATTEN “JERRY” BUSS. <\/strong><\/p>\n

DR. JERRY BUSS WAS\u00a0CHEMIST, GRADUATING FROM THE\u00a0 UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING WITH A B.S. DEGREE, AND HE ALSO \u00a0GRADUATED FROM THE\u00a0 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WITH A\u00a0 MASTERS DEGREE AND ALSO A P.H.D.. THE GREATEST OWNER OF THE NBA WAS ALSO A GREAT\u00a0\u00a0AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN,\u00a0 WHO CREATED A SUBSTANTIAL REAL ESTATE EMPIRE THAT STARTED IN THE 1960’S, \u00a0\u00a0WITH INVESTING A\u00a0 $1000.00 IN A WEST LOS ANGELES OFFICE BUILDING.\u00a0 DR. BUSS WENT ON TO PURCHASE THE PICKFAIR MANSION, WHICH WAS A HEAVILY COVETED PROPERTY AT THE TIME,\u00a0 AND THEN\u00a0 HE ESTABLISHED THE\u00a0 MARIANI-BUSS ASSOCIATES,\u00a0 A REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT COMPANY WITH\u00a0 HIS LONG TIME BUSINESS PARTNER,\u00a0 FRANK MARIANI.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DR. JERRY BUSS WAS A SPORTS MULTI-TEAM\u00a0 OWNER, WITH ENTITIES TO INCLUDE:\u00a0 THE LOS ANGELES STRINGS OF WORLD TEAM TENNIS,\u00a0 THE LOS ANGELES KINGS OF THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE,\u00a0\u00a0AND IN 1979, HE PURCHASED THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS, THE FORUM(WHERE THEY PLAYED) AND A LARGE RANCH FROM\u00a0 JACK KENT COOKE, THE FORMER OWNER OF THE\u00a0 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE’S WASHINGTON REDSKINS. THIS PURCHASE WAS FOR\u00a0 $67,000,000.00 DOLLARS, WHICH AT THE TIME WAS THE LARGEST TRANSACTION IN SPORTS HISTORY.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0DR. BUSS MADE SOME OF THE GREATEST DRAFT DECISIONS,\u00a0 AND THE GREATEST TRADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE NBA, \u00a0WHEN HE TRADED FOR LEW ALCINDOR, KNOWN TO THE NEWER GENERATIONS AS” KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR”. \u00a0WITH THAT ACQUISITION,\u00a0 AND ALSO WITH THE MAGIC JOHNSON DRAFT, THE JAMES WORTHY DRAFT, THE KEITH WILKES DRAFT,\u00a0\u00a0 AND THE BYRON SCOTT TRADE, DR. BUSS WAS ABLE TO WIN 10 NBA TITLES, AND BECOME THE MOST SUCCESSFUL NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATIONS\u00a0 OWNER IN THE HISTORY OF IT’S EXISTANCE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE MYBOYSAY NATIONS NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION’S ENTHUSIASTS WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE SPORTS WORLD IN STATING THAT DR. BUSS WILL BE MISSED DEARLY, AND WE HOPE THAT THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS FRANCHISE CONTINUE TO REPRESENT THE GREATEST OWNER OF ALL TIME WITH THE GRACE THAT HE DEMOSTRATED DURING HIS WONDERFUL CAREER AS THE NO.1 OWNER IN THE NBA,<\/strong><\/p>\n

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THE GREATEST OWNER IN THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THIS EARTH, AND THE WHOLE WORLD OF SPORTS WILL BE IN MOURNING, BECAUSE THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS WAS THE GREATEST NBA SHOW ON EARTH, WHICH WAS CREATED BY THE MAN THAT REBUILT THE NBA, DR. GERALD HATTEN “JERRY” BUSS. DR. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[330,11,8,13,14,106,1,7,9,10],"tags":[705,69,706],"class_list":["post-9526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball-sports","category-business","category-entertainment","category-health","category-most-commented","category-nba-sports-news","category-news","category-sports","category-us","category-world","tag-dr-jerry-buss","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-national-basketball-league","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}