{"id":13084,"date":"2013-02-18T11:04:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=13084"},"modified":"2013-02-18T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:07:37","slug":"l-a-lakers-owner-jerry-buss-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=13084","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Lakers Owner, Jerry Buss, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bussjerry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13085\" title=\"bussjerry\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bussjerry-150x105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>LOS ANGELES (AP Feb 18, 2013) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; owner Jerry Buss has died at age 80.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spokesman Bob Steiner says Buss died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He&#8217;d been hospitalized for cancer, but the immediate cause of death was kidney failure.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Buss shepherded the NBA franchise to 10 championships. He transformed the Lakers into Southern California&#8217;s most beloved sports franchise and a worldwide extension of Hollywood glamour after buying the club in 1979.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Buss acquired, nurtured and befriended a staggering array of talent during his Hall of Fame tenure.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With Buss&#8217; leadership and lavish spending, the Lakers won five championships during the 1980s Showtime dynasty and added five more in an 11-year span of Kobe Bryant&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP Feb 18, 2013) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; owner Jerry Buss has died at age 80. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spokesman Bob Steiner says Buss died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He&#8217;d been hospitalized for cancer, but the immediate cause of death was kidney failure. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13087,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions\/13087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}