Billie Jean King and Mary Tyler Moore: L.A. Lakers Owner Jeanie Buss Learned From the Best
By Marc Myers, published to The Wall Street Journal
Jeanie Buss, 62, is the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and co-owner of “WOW—Women Of Wrestling.” The new season of the women’s professional wrestling franchise starts Sept. 14. She spoke with Marc Myers.
In 1973, when I was 12, I was at my father’s house in Los Angeles when he clicked on the TV to watch Billie Jean King play Bobby Riggs. The event was billed as tennis’s “Battle of the Sexes,” and I watched what I hadn’t seen before—a woman on the court playing a man.