The Los Angeles Lakers are set to make history, with ESPN's Shams Charania reporting that the Buss family will be selling the franchise to Mark Walter for a valuation of approximately $10 billion, marking the most expensive sale for a North American sports franchise in history.
The Lakers bested their longtime rivals, the Boston Celtics, for the most expensive sale in American sports history. The Celtics were recently sold to Bill Chisholm for a record $6.1 million earlier this year, but now Walter and the Lakers are topping that number by several billion dollars.
