Jerry Buss, Lakers’ Owner for 10 NBA Championships, Dies at 80
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Jerry Buss, whose Los Angeles Lakers teams won 10 National Basketball Association championships during an ownership that spanned more than three decades, died yesterday at the age of 80.
Buss, who was being treated for cancer, died yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to the hospital. ABC News reported the immediate cause of death was kidney failure, citing Buss’s assistant. Buss’s family said he’d been hospitalized the past 18 months.