Once upon a time, the Los Angeles Lakers were considered the NBA's model franchise back in the 1980s. Dr. Jerry Buss owned the team and oversaw operations, Jerry West and Bill Sharman made personnel ...
He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said Bob Steiner, his assistant. Buss had been hospitalized for most of the past 18 months while undergoing cancer treatment, but the immediate ...
Bill Sharman, a Hall of Fame basketball player and coach who guided the Lakers to their first National Basketball Assn. title in Los Angeles in record-setting fashion, has died. He was 87. Sharman, ...