Los Angeles Lakers — Net Worth and Career Earnings
The Los Angeles Lakers are valued at $6.9 billion according to Forbes 2025, making them the most valuable NBA franchise in the world. Annual revenue of approximately $550 million is driven by their Crypto.com Arena naming rights deal ($700 million over 20 years), television deals, LeBron James's continued commercial drawing power and the Los Angeles market's unrivalled combination of entertainment industry wealth and global media reach.
The Lakers' 17 NBA championships — the joint most in league history alongside the Boston Celtics — were produced by a succession of generational players: Jerry West, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. Their 2020 championship, won in the COVID bubble in Orlando, was LeBron's fourth title and Kobe Bryant's posthumous tribute season following his death in January 2020. Jeanie Buss, daughter of legendary owner Jerry Buss, has run the franchise since 2014 and navigated significant management turbulence while maintaining the franchise's commercial supremacy.