Lakers Owner Jeanie Buss Is Making Moves Off the Court
variety.comAndrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media Analyst As the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, Jeanie Buss is well known in the world of professional basketball.
Now she’s making a name for herself in Hollywood as well. As if she didn’t have enough on her plate overseeing one of the most storied franchises in all of sports, she is plenty busy as well guiding multiple productions, including a new Hulu documentary on which she serves as executive producer, “Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers,” which premiered last month.
In addition, she is about to relaunch beginning Sept. 17 the WOW: Women of Wrestling league — that she owned since 2011 as a syndicated property — both in the U.S.
and abroad in partnership with Paramount. She’s also teamed up with Mindy Kaling on a scripted comedy in development at Netflix that offers a thinly veiled fictional version of her life as a team owner.
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