Monday, February 18, 2013

BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Jerry Buss, Los Angeles Lakers' owner, dies at 80

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Jerry Buss, Los Angeles Lakers' owner, dies at 80

thumbnail LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jerry Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers' playboy owner who shepherded the NBA franchise to 10 championships from the '80s Showtime dynasty to the Kobe Bryant era, died Monday, his assistant said. Buss died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said Bob Steiner, his assistant. He was 80. He'd been hospitalized for cancer, but the immediate cause of death was kidney failure, S...

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