This is a new era for the Los Angeles Lakers; the Buss family doesn’t control the franchise for the first time in 46 years. Following a sale to Mark Walter at a $10 billion valuation, the majority share now belongs to someone else.

The unease began earlier today, when it was announced that long-time Los Angeles Lakers executives and minority owners Joey and Jesse Buss, the children of the late Dr. Jerry Buss, the beloved former Lakers owner, had been fired from the organization by ...