A Teenage Kate Hudson Shadowed Lakers Owner Jeanie Buss. Now She’s Playing a Comedic Version of Her in Netflix’s NBA Sitcom ‘Running Point’

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Angelique Jackson SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses plot details from the Netflix series “Running Point,” which is now streaming. Kate Hudson has always been a sports fan, and growing up between California and Colorado meant cheering for the Denver Broncos, the Los Angeles Kings and, of course, the L.A.

Lakers. As a teenager, Hudson would go to Kings games with her parents, who introduced her to Jeanie Buss, the then 30-something executive who managed the Forum, where the hockey team played. “Kate would just, like, shadow me,” Buss recalls. “I’d take her around the building give her a tour, explain what the Forum Club was, and how we operated the tickets and the box office.” Hudson, sitting next to her, jumps in eagerly: “I was also a little naughty, so I would like to sneak into places.

Jeanie kept me… she was like ‘You stay here.’” As they start to crack up at the conjured memory of a 14-year-old Hudson trying to pull a fast one on her sisterly minder, a third voice pipes up. “What were these naughty places?” Mindy Kaling asks, wanting in on the fun too.

Kaling wasn’t there for that part of the story, which has come full circle in the form of the new Netflix series “Running Point,” where Hudson portrays a fictionalized version of Buss, who is now the president and controlling owner of the Lakers.