Recently, Lakers owner Jenny Bass posted on social networks in memory of Kobe.
Jenny: "I miss Kobe Bryant, he understands and explains all the things I'm not allowed to do. Bryant's Lakers are the greatest, and he understands that the team trumps the self. If you see your team goals as more important than your own goals, then you'll be rewarded, and then everything will come to fruition and everyone will benefit. ”
This summer's NBA deal was the most exciting in nearly 10 years, with two new all-time caps being born so far, jokic renewing $264 million in 5 years and Bradley Beale's $251 million maximum salary extension in 5 years.
Durant asked for a deal, and Irving took the table, which made the trade situation in the league more responsible.
The Lakers are undoubtedly the most disappointing team for fans last season, with 4 historical 75 stars, but they can't even score in the playoffs, it is the stars who lose people, but the real pain is the management, you know these people are not cheap.
Jenny Bass's words revealed a message that she was in a very difficult situation.
The Bath family holds 66% of the shares in the Lakers, and the shareholding method is through the trust fund, the old Bath has foresight, the family is not united, and the son is a cynical addict.
Jenny Bass has only a small stake, she doesn't have the final decision-making power for the club, and the Lakers' second-largest shareholder is AEG's founder, billionaire Philip Anschutz, with a 27 percent stake.
Anschutz is also the owner of the Lakers Arena (formerly staples Arena), which invests in a number of industries including energy, railways, real estate, sports, entertainment, etc., the main source of which is the oil industry. With a net worth of more than $11 billion, it also acquired the Wall Street Journal's parent company and is the 66th wealthiest businessman in the United States.
However, starting in 2021, the media broke the news that Anschutz planned to sell the Lakers' stake to the los Angeles Dodgers shareholders, which was opposed by the league.
Although Anschutz has no new sales plan, it is clear that this Lakers team has not made too much money for the management and bosses.
The Lakers currently have more than 40 decision-makers, of which Pelinka, Rambis and Linda play a vital role in management, Linda is Jane Bass's girlfriend, the person who helped her regain the Lakers' helm, and the Lakers' executive director of external projects.
The reason why LeBron James "retires" in the Lakers is because he is preparing to buy a new industry at LA, and he has always wanted to integrate into the Lakers management, just like the situation that controlled the Cavaliers in the past, but the Lakers are far more complicated than the Cavaliers, after all, this is a big team.
In 2020, Jenny Bass became the first female controlling shareholder to lead the team to an NBA championship, and the elder Bass has six children, and the six children are equally distributed, so Jenny Bass's stake will not exceed 10%.
Because the old Bath is a famous playboy in Los Angeles, the extramarital affair has allowed him to have at least 7 illegitimate children, according to Los Angeles media reports, the old Buzz had more than 100 lovers before his death, and his dating career is second only to Chamberlain.
Let's see the famous scene when the old Bath was dating at that time.
When She hired Pelinka to join the Lakers, Jenny Bass stole Pelinka in and later had a conflict with her siblings.
Not only is it difficult to run the team, But Jenny Bass's private life is also quite complicated, and we look at the wonderful love history of this giant.
Born in 1961 and whose parents divorced at the age of 11, she developed independence from an early age, majoring in business operations at university, where her father bought her a team and she became a club owner at the age of 19.
Therefore, in her emotional life, she is choosing men, and there will be no men to occupy the dominance of her life. When a relationship is exposed, she will not choose to debunk the rumors, but deny the previous relationship by opening a new relationship.
In 1990, 29-year-old Jenny Bass agreed to steve Timmons's marriage proposal, the former main attacker of the American men's volleyball team, the marriage between the two lasted for 3 years, after marriage, less and more, Jenny Bass said that business is more important than marriage.
NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman is recognized as the worst player in league history, and Rodman has reportedly had relationships with more than 2,000 women during his career with multiple NBA teams, before retiring!
That's more than he's made in the NBA...
Rodman's big hands can help Jordan cover the sky with one hand, and can also achieve the dream of Jenny Bass, who was 32 years old that year, and Jenny had just arrived at the Lakers, and the two sides were on the court.
Jenny Bass, 32, also made a surprising move, appearing on the cover of Playboy.
People are questioning the female bosses after the giants, why do they dedicate themselves in this way?
Jenny Bass said: "When I posed, I was 32 years old, I had reached a mature level, I was like other models, I had to do test shoots and things like that. It's my own personal goal and has nothing to do with business or anything.
The tough life does not need to be explained, life and work are like this.
In 1999, when she was named the Lakers' executive vice president of commercial operations, Jenny realized she needed a helper and threw an olive branch to her lover, Phil Jackson.
Phil Jackson had just broken up with the Bulls at that time, staying at home for half a year, Jenny invited him out of the mountain, the two immersed themselves in cultivation, jackson also won the title of "Zen Master"?
Phil Jackson is 16 years older than Jenny! Mature and stable, it is the ideal business and emotional partner of Jenny Bass.
In the face of doubts, Jenny Bass always knew the difficulties, she not only recruited a Zen master, but also recruited Rodman, so the joke of "one master and two servants" was widely spread at that time.
In order to stabilize Phil Jackson and give him peace of mind, Jenny Bass also agreed to be engaged to him, and later served as the president of the team.
Both the media and the elder Buzz have great trust in Jenny, with Forbes calling Jenny Bass "one of the few powerful women in sports management" and ESPN calling her "one of the most powerful women in the NBA." (Kobe Bryant's two-game winning streak)
All this changed in 2013, because the elder Buzz died, and Kobe Bryant also entered the end of his career, Kobe Bryant never participated in the operation of the team, he would give Jenny some reference advice, and Jenny Bass would gladly accept it every time, because without Kobe, she would not have all these achievements.
Kobe Bryant retired in 2016, Jenny Bass lost the lakers' only top card, Jim Bass has been supervising the team's operations, and now all Jenny has to do is seize power.
In 2017, Jenny Bass first resigned from general manager Mitch Kupcek, forcing Jim to step down as vice president of operations and appoint Magic Johnson as president of basketball operations.
Although Kobe Bryant has not made a shot, he is a strong backer for Jenny Bass, because magicians Johnson and Pelinka, Perrinka is also Kobe's manager.
After taking over the Lakers, Jenny Bass has only one goal, that is, to lead the team to make money, otherwise he will soon cause the dissatisfaction of shareholders, and there is a group of wandering brothers and sisters sitting on the mountain behind her.
So in 2018, Jenny Bass directly signed LeBron James, coupled with AEG's media department to assist, the Lakers hope to make LeBron the league's only superstar, not one.
However, contrary to expectations, the Lakers, who are eager to make quick profits, have recruited a series of stars such as Wei Shao and Thick Eyebrows, regardless of whether the team is integrated or not, only concerned about media effects and commercial benefits, which also makes the Lakers gradually fall into a dilemma.
Phil left the New York Knicks as president of basketball operations, which led to a direct breakup between the two, the Knicks have been the NBA's most valuable and highest-paid team for 20 years, and Phil also saw the value of New York.
Fortunately, the Lakers are in the bustling old city of Los Angeles, otherwise they would have fallen down long ago. Jenny's lover at the time was comedy star Christopher Walken, and in order to welcome James's arrival, Jenny directly released Walken's pigeons during the date and attended James's first race.
Affected by the epidemic, the NBA's income and expenditure in the past three seasons have not been ideal, coupled with the previous events, the influence of the NBA has fallen out of the four major leagues, whether it is market value or influence is not as good as the NFL, MLB, NHL, and in recent years, WWE has risen sharply, affected by the big environment, Jenny Bass is stable for several years.
Therefore, the better the market, it is not necessarily a good situation for Jenny Bass, if the market recovers and there are new equity changes, Jenny may not be able to continue to be the leader of the Lakers.
This article was originally edited by Yi rabbit sports
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