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Lakers owner Jerry Buss talks to the media at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, August 17, 2010. Buss died Monday, Feburary 18, 2013, of an undisclosed form of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to his longtime spokesman, Bob Steiner. Buss was 80. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/MCT)