A Relationship of Bob Iger's May Have Helped Him Land the Lakers

Letters to Sports: Lakers sale to Iger and Kushner is talk of L.A.

Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section share their thoughts on the Lakers' sale to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner, the WNBA, Dodgers and more.

FBI seized phones from billionaire, top deputy before $12.5B Lakers sale to Josh Kushner, Bob Iger: report

The FBI seized the phones of billionaire Mark Walter and a top Guggenheim Investments executive last year as federal prosecutors investigated businesses in his sprawling financial empire — months before he struck a $12.5 billion deal to sell the Los Angeles Lakers to Josh Kushner and Bob…

In Sudden $12.5B Lakers Sale, Big Questions Remain

Just 10 months after Dodgers owner Mark Walter officially became the Lakers majority owner, he flipped the asset. Why?

Bob Iger has not yet formulated his plan for running the Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers are in the relatively unprecedented position of undergoing their second ownership change in under 18 months. Bob Iger, the former CEO of Disney, and Josh Kushner, a venture capitalist, made a stunning agreement to purchase Mark Walter’s shares of the Lakers at a valuation of $12.5 billion. Walter was in the process of updating the Lakers from the small, tight-knit organization they were under the Buss family to something s…