Jeanie Buss contesting family's vote to sell stake in Lakers - ESPN

Los Angeles Lakers governor Jeanie Buss is contesting her siblings' vote to sell the family's remaining 17.8% share of the Lakers, according to a letter from her lawyer obtained by ESPN.

The Buss family siblings in a statement earlier Monday said they had voted to sell their remaining shares to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger at the same $12.5 billion valuation that Mark Walter agreed to last week. They believed they had the right to sell based on a tag-along provision that had been included in the previous sale to Walter in June 2025. Sources told ESPN that provision gave the family rights to tag along on any sale and valuation Walter secured for his shares.

Jeanie Buss was to remain the team's controlling owner through 2030, according to the agreement she made with Walter. Iger told the California Post last week that he intended to honor that agreement with Buss but, he added, «If something changes, then it changes.» Iger met with Buss late last week and the two discussed the transition from Walter, sources said.

Should the sale of the family's stake go through, Jeanie Buss would no longer have the needed ownership percentage to remain governor of the team.

A spokesperson for Kushner and Iger declined to comment on the situation when reached by ESPN.

«We have decided as a family to sell the remaining Buss Family Trust shares to the Bob Iger group as part of the ongoing transaction,» the family said in its statement earlier Monday. «We love the Lakers, Laker fans and will continue to support Los Angeles; but it is time to use this opportunity to move on and exit gracefully while we still can.»

In response, Jeanie Buss' lawyer Adam Streisand wrote to the five siblings who voted to sell that a court had ruled in 2017 that no