Jerry Buss
Jerry Buss
Gerald Hatten "Jerry" Busswas an American businessman, investor, chemist, and philanthropist. He was the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association, winning 10 league championships that were highlighted by the team's Showtime era during the 1980s. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor. Buss also owned other professional sports franchises in Southern California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth27 January 1933
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
I think he had really kind of made up his mind somewhere during the year that he was going to leave. I don't think I really recognized that.When I told him what kind of team I wanted, what kind of exciting basketball I wanted to play ... Of course Kobe wanted to play the same kind of basketball and that's how we got together.
I have been on TV quite a few times as a poker player.
You're sitting and watching, and it's like a miracle unfolding in front of your eyes and you can't accept it. Somehow, the brain won't work. The easiest way to look at it is everybody remembers every 50-point game they ever saw. He had 55 in the second half.
One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics.
To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.
I mean, the Lakers are pretty damn Hollywood.
Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.
Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.
I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.