{"id":77314,"date":"2026-08-12T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/josh-kushner-and-bob-iger-reportedly-buying-los-angeles-lakers-for-12bn\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:56:36","slug":"josh-kushner-and-bob-iger-reportedly-buying-los-angeles-lakers-for-12bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/josh-kushner-and-bob-iger-reportedly-buying-los-angeles-lakers-for-12bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Kushner and Bob Iger reportedly buying Los Angeles Lakers for $12bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Mark Walter bought team last year for $10bn<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Iger and Kushner aim to \u2018compete at the highest level\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Josh \u2060Kushner and Bob Iger \u2060are purchasing \u2060the \u200bLos Angeles Lakers for more \u2060than $12bn in a record-breaking \u2060deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49590362\/josh-kushner-bob-iger-buy-lakers-12b\">ESPN reported \u200bon \u200cWednesday<\/a>, citing \u200csources with knowledge \u200cof the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Mark Walter purchased a majority stake of the \u200cNBA team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jun\/18\/lakers-sale-mark-walter-nba-buss-family\">last year<\/a> from the Buss family in a \u200bdeal that valued the club at $10bn, with \u2060the deal only \u200bhaving \u200bbeen approved \u200bby the board \u200bof \u200cgovernors \u200bin \u200bOctober.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/12\/josh-kushner-and-bob-iger-reportedly-buying-los-angeles-lakers-for-12bn\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Walter bought team last year for $10bn Iger and Kushner aim to \u2018compete at the highest level\u2019 Josh \u2060Kushner and Bob Iger \u2060are purchasing \u2060the \u200bLos Angeles Lakers for more \u2060than $12bn in a record-breaking \u2060deal, ESPN reported \u200bon \u200cWednesday, citing \u200csources with knowledge \u200cof the deal. Billionaire Mark Walter purchased a majority stake &#8230; <a title=\"Josh Kushner and Bob Iger reportedly buying Los Angeles Lakers for $12bn\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/josh-kushner-and-bob-iger-reportedly-buying-los-angeles-lakers-for-12bn\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Josh Kushner and Bob Iger reportedly buying Los Angeles Lakers for $12bn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}