Lakers Insider: How Jerry Buss Put Donald Sterling in the NBA, and Vice Versa

LOS ANGELES — If you want to look at it from a negative perspective, it would seem that longtime Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss was the reason Donald Sterling got into the basketball business in the first place.

From a positive for Lakers fans, maybe Buss doesn't get into the basketball business without Sterling's help.

When cash-strapped for the last dollars he needed to buy the Lakers, Buss turned to Sterling in the final hours for a real-estate sale and additional funds. Buss later encouraged Sterling to buy a team, too. Here's how it was summed up in Peter Keating's Bleacher Report - Los Angeles Lakers
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