Pat Riley on Dr. Jerry Buss 🖤 Funeral Service 2013

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Jerry Buss was a part-owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, who died Monday night at age 80.
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Jerry Buss was the owner of the Lakers, who also owned a professional soccer team, an indoor football team, and a hockey team. He was arguably one of the most respected owners in all of sports.
Jerry Buss was born on September 18th 1933 in Salt Lake City Utah. His family soon moved to Southern California where Jerry would end up making his home for the rest of his life. In 1959 he found out about a potential opportunity with the newly formed Lakers basketball team and signed a deal to become co-owner and vice president of public relations.
Jerry did not stop there though, he continued to buy shares in other Los Angeles sports teams including The Kings Hockey Team, The Forum Arena Football Arena Team, as well as other minor league teams such as the Los Angeles Lazers.
Dr. Buss Memorial was televised in Los Angeles. Guest speakers included Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Pat Riley, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant and more.
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Jerry Buss was a visionary who brought the Lakers to glory and ushered in an era of dominance for the sport.
Born Sept. 27, 1933, in Salt Lake City, Buss grew up in Wyoming with his six siblings. His father died when he was 10 and his mother remarried a few years later.
He would later drop out of high school to work full-time at a service station, giving him time to watch NBA games on TV and take notes on his favorite players and teams.
Buss' first big break came when he moved to Southern California as a young man working as an engineer at Boeing Co., where he took note of all the glamorous people coming through Los Angeles on their way to Las Vegas -- they included some of Hollywood's biggest stars -- and concluded.

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As a kid who grew up watching the Kings get blasted by the Lakers, I gotta say the legend of Dr. Buss is bigger than sports.