The Los Angeles Lakers fired Joey and Jesse Buss amid a shakeup in the team's basketball operations.

The Buss brothers held key roles in the team's scouting department over the last decade, which was gutted after the family sold its majority ownership of the Lakers in June.

"We wish things could be different with the way our time ended with the team," the brothers wrote in a statement. "At times like this, we wish we could ask our Dad what he would think about it all."

The brothers' father, Jerry Buss, purchased the Lakers for $67.5 million in 1979, in a deal that included the Los Angeles Kings and The Forum. In the nearly 50 years since his acquisition, the Purple and Gold transformed into one of the world's most recognizable sports franchises. After his death , ownership passed

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