{"id":212,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/212","headline":"Buss siblings say Jeanie has no power to block Lakers share sale","dek":"The five siblings formally filed a response calling Jeanie Buss's petition legally and factually baseless.","body":"The Buss family fight over the Lakers escalated this week. Johnny, James, Janie, Joey and Jesse Buss filed a formal response Wednesday opposing their sister Jeanie's petition to block them from selling the family's remaining 17.8% stake in the team.\n\nJeanie Buss filed her petition on Aug. 23, after Mark Walter struck a deal with Joshua Kushner that valued the Lakers at $12.5 billion. She argued a 2017 court order requires the family to \"take all actions reasonably available\" to keep her as the team's governor, a role she negotiated as part of Walter's purchase of the Lakers last year. She maintains her siblings cannot compel the family trust to sell without her consent.\n\nHer siblings disagree. In their filing, they call her argument \"at most a meaningless academic exercise\" and say she has no legal right to stop the sale of shares held in the family trust.\n\nThe dispute now heads deeper into the courts, with both sides staking out opposing reads of the 2017 order and what it actually requires of the family going forward.","published_at":"2026-10-08T19:17:55.251375+00:00","source_count":5,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Front Office Sports","publisher":"Front Office Sports","title":"Buss Siblings: Jeanie Has No Legal Power to Block Sale of Lakers Stake","url":"https://frontofficesports.com/article/buss-siblings-jeanie-no-legal-power-block-sale-lakers-stake/"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Buss siblings formally file case against Jeanie over sale of Lakers shares","url":"https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50128244/buss-siblings-formally-file-jeanie-lakers-sale"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Buss siblings file formal claim Jeanie Buss violated trust by refusing to sell Lakers shares","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7607877/2026/10/07/lakers-sale-jeanie-buss-family-trust-letter/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Five Buss siblings filed their opposition to Jeanie Buss's petition, calling it legally and factually baseless","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/five-buss-siblings-filed-opposition-224259799.html"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Buss siblings filing case against Jeanie Buss over Lakers sale","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/07/sports/buss-siblings-filing-case-against-jeanie-over-lakers-sale/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Buss siblings file formal opposition after Jeanie Buss' attempts to block remaining sale of Lakers stake","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/buss-siblings-file-formal-opposition-after-jeanie-buss-attempts-to-block-remaining-sale-of-lakers-stake-230044466.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Jeanie Buss' siblings file formal opposition to her attempt to block sale of Lakers","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jeanie-buss-siblings-file-formal-234111008.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Jeanie Buss’ Siblings File Against Sister Over Lakers’ Sale","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jeanie-buss-siblings-file-against-235131170.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Buss siblings filing case against Jeanie Buss over Lakers sale","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/buss-siblings-filing-case-against-000825145.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Latest in Lakers legal saga: Jeanie Buss' siblings file opposition","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/latest-lakers-legal-saga-jeanie-012112398.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Buss Siblings: Jeanie Has No Legal Power to Block Sale of Lakers Stake","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/buss-siblings-jeanie-no-legal-012820233.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Jeanie Buss’ siblings file formal opposition to her petition to block Lakers sale","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jeanie-buss-siblings-file-formal-030043342.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Buss siblings filing case against Jeanie Buss over Lakers sale","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/buss-siblings-filing-case-against-000825928.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Lakers Governor Jeanie Buss’ family rift grows as siblings issue scathing letter after $12.5 billion sale","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/lakers-governor-jeanie-buss-family-083513514.html"},{"outlet":"Front Office Sports","publisher":"Front Office Sports","title":"Filing Details Jeanie Buss’s Side Deal to Remain Lakers Governor","url":"https://frontofficesports.com/article/filing-details-jeanie-busss-side-deal-to-remain-lakers-governor/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Filing Details Jeanie Buss’s Side Deal to Remain Lakers Governor","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/filing-details-jeanie-buss-side-205508864.html"}],"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. 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