Jeanie Buss, the owner of the Lakers, views everything as a performance

• The Los Angeles Lakers were purchased by billionaire and future Hollywood social staple Jerry Buss in 1979
• Buss took over as the Lakers’ team president after Jerry passed away in 2013.
• In Legacy, a recently released documentary series created with the extensive assistance of the Lakers, she has got her own opportunity to tell the tale.

The Los Angeles Lakers were purchased by billionaire and future Hollywood social staple Jerry Buss in 1979, and he immediately set out to improve both the team and its surroundings.

His daughter Jeanie, who was 17 years old at the time of the acquisition, was doing her homework during the subsequent Showtime era, the team’s incarnation in the 1980s that was recognized for its on-court style, in-arena spectacle, and celebrity following. In addition to managing the city’s professional tennis and roller hockey clubs, she worked for the Lakers in a variety of capacities.

Buss took over as the Lakers’ team president after Jerry passed away in 2013. She is currently one of the NBA’s most well-known executives and sits close to the hub of the league’s expansive appeal in her capacity as controlling owner. Another blend of entertainment, culture, and sport has been developed by Buss. She has co-owns the Women of Wrestling series with the wrestling promoter David McLane since 2011, and on Saturday, it will begin a new phase of its ambition with a nationally syndicated television show.

Recently, the early years of the Buss period of Laker’s history received their own Hollywood treatment. Despite the HBO show Winning Time’s warning that it is a “dramatization of some facts and occurrences,” some of the key figures from the Showtime era have expressed varying degrees of criticism, including Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Jerry West. (West went so far as to demand a retraction; he served as the team’s general manager during the time period the show focuses on.)

Buss didn’t appear to mind as much, telling Variety that John C. Reilly’s portrayal of her father ought to have earned him an Emmy nomination. In Legacy, a recently released documentary series created with the extensive assistance of the Lakers, she has got her own opportunity to tell the tale. (Buss served as the project’s executive producer.)

In some ways, the Winning Time controversy was routine in the increasingly entwined NBA entertainment environment and may have served as some sort of practice for the story requirements of pro wrestling. McLane informed me that the sport “does not have the stigma that I grew up with.” You can go to a pro-wrestling match today and enjoy it with people who shop at Walmart and people who shop on Rodeo Drive because it is accepted as the sport, entertainment, art form, rivalries, and community that it is.

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