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A $1 million sports card sale doesn’t feel as momentous as it might have been a decade ago, five years ago or even one year ago. There’s been one or more publicly known sports card sales of $1 million or more in each of the last nine months, and in 12 of the past 13…

Mark Walter has agreed to sell his majority ownership stake in the Los Angeles Lakers just a little more than one year after buying it, a fascinating development with several side stories likely to continue unfolding over the coming months. The deal will also — maybe — end the Buss family’s 47-year run as stewards…

With the bulk of the NBA offseason in the rearview, Jalen Duren remains the only All-NBA selection from last season not currently under contract. Discussions between Duren and the Detroit Pistons have yet to result in a new deal for the 22-year-old, long-term or otherwise. Last offseason, the big man and Detroit were unable to…

Jerry Buss wanted his children to run the Lakers after he was gone. How sad he would be to see what his prized possession has done to the people he cherished. The Lakers were supposed to be the bond that kept the Buss family connected after his passing. Instead, it’s the wedge splitting them apart.…

Multiple sagas have been unfolding during the NBA offseason. One has been the Denver Nuggets potentially tightening payroll, even though their team has to find ways to remain near the top of the brutal Western Conference. Another has been the restricted free agency of Peyton Watson. And, of course, we have the Cleveland Cavaliers trying…

The Denver Nuggets are trading restricted free-agent forward Peyton Watson to the Cleveland Cavaliers in a multi-team deal, multiple sources told The Athletic on Wednesday. The sources spoke under condition of anonymity because the deal is not yet official. A league source, speaking under condition of anonymity to discuss a deal that had not yet…

A segment of Dallas Mavericks fans are expressing frustration over a change to the team’s partial season-ticket plan for the 2026-27 season. In two different 10-game plans the Mavericks are offering for the upcoming season, one of the regular-season games has been replaced by a preseason game. The Mavericks’ Oct. 14 preseason game against the…

If Mark Walter’s sale of the Los Angeles Lakers was the big surprise of this summer, what followed early this week was perhaps a little more predictable. The fight within the Buss family — specifically between current Lakers governor Jeanie Buss and her five siblings, who voted to sell the family’s shares in the team…

The Los Angeles Lakers have undergone an unprecedented series of ownership changes over the past year. The latest — Mark Walter’s agreement to sell his controlling interest in the team to former Disney CEO Bob Iger and venture capitalist Joshua Kushner less than a year after acquiring it from the Buss family — could lead…

Five of the six Buss family siblings said they intend to move forward with selling their portion of the Los Angeles Lakers, a day after a lawyer for their sister, Jeanie, said doing so would be “a breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty” and would put them “in contempt of court.” “Johnny, Jimmy, Janie,…