Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss received a star of fame in downtown Hollywood. Buss, who has owned the National Basketball Association team since 1979, helped transform the Lakers into one of the most successful and glamorous franchises in American sports.
Buss said he wanted to give local basketball fans a "hometown identity" so transplanted New Yorkers, Chicagoans and Bostonians would stop cheering for their former hometown teams.
Buss said Monday he thought he was deserving of a Hollywood star.
"If there's a single way the city could tell me I've been successful, it would be to give me a star in Hollywood," Buss said.
Buss was honored in the television category for co-founding with the late cable pioneer Bill Daniels the Prime Ticket regional cable sports channel in 1985, which showed the Lakers' home games, along with other events from the Forum, college sports and other events.
