{"id":19722,"date":"2013-02-21T14:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19722"},"modified":"2013-02-21T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:40:34","slug":"jerry-buss-the-los-angeles-lakers-owner-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19722","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Buss, The Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 Owner, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 <strong>Jerry Buss<\/strong>, the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 playboy owner who shepherded the NBA team to 10 championships from the Showtime dynasty of the 1980s to the<strong> Kobe Bryant <\/strong>era, died Monday. He was 80.<\/p>\n<p>He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said <strong>Bob Steiner<\/strong>, his assistant.<strong> Buss<\/strong> had been hospitalized for most of the past 18 months while undergoing cancer treatment, but the immediate cause of death was kidney failure, <strong>Steiner<\/strong> said. With his condition worsening in recent weeks, several prominent former Lakers visited <strong>Buss <\/strong>to say goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Jerry Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 playboy owner who shepherded the NBA team to 10 championships from the Showtime dynasty of the 1980s to the Kobe Bryant era, died Monday. He was 80. He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said Bob Steiner, his assistant. Buss had been hospitalized for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}