Schocking revelation by Lakers governor Jeanie Buss being groped by NBA owner during meeting

The Los Angeles Lakers NBA franchise was acquired by Dr. Jerry Buss in the late 70s and forever changed the game, but when he passed away in 2013, after making the team a dynasty, his daughter Jeanie Buss became the new team's owner and governor.

Jeanie Buss became the first woman to be in front of an NBA franchise, not always was easy and recently she shared a troubling story about how an NBA owner grabbed her behind during her first NBA board of Governors meeting.

Buss told the experience in a recent interview with Graham Bensinger. “As we were waiting, taking a break from the meeting and everybody’s in line for the buffet for lunch during the lunch break, somebody grabs my a–,” Buss said on the show. “I turned around and I was so shocked. But it was like, again — if I didn’t have the confidence that my dad put in me, that was a moment where I wanted to shrink and to be nothing, that I would have, you know, gotten sick and said, ‘I gotta go.’ Do I belong here? You know, I’m just really not one of the group, like I’m been singled out. “It made me really self-conscious.”

Buss became the controlling owner of the Lakers following the death of her father in 2013. This isn’t the first time that she revealed what happened to her in that meeting, as the younger Buss shared the story in her November 2010 book Laker Girl.

How Jeanie Buss dealt with the awkward situation

Even though she had to deal with the groping from another NBA owner, Buss refused to back down, and it is a big reason why she is so successful as the Lakers’ president today. “I just gave him a dirty look, like back off,” Buss said. “And I stayed in the room. I realized that I might not be able to gain the respect of the existing ownership groups. But everybody that came after me, I could help them in the room because they’d be the new person.”