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Jerry Buss was one of the greatest owners in the history of professional sports, the creator of the most entertaining championship teams ever, a fearless pioneer who bonded a giant and disparate city under a brilliant blanket of purple and gold.
Yet he felt that watching the Lakers was like watching his children.
''It's a tearful experience sometimes," he once said.
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