Jack Harris covers the Dodgers for the Los Angeles Times. Before that, he covered the Angels, the Kings and almost everything ...

Jerry Buss brought a winning culture to the Lakers, and his descendants tried to maintain that tradition, but it's time for new ideas.

For 46 years it’s been a wonderful ride, the sweetest of sagas, the Buss family treating the Lakers like their precocious child, nurturing, embracing, empowering, transforming them ...