If you were Samueli, why would you want to buy up all the limited minority partners? It essentially buys you nothing because it's a limited (no vote in team moves) partnership. It's really a sparkly investment with no say-so in how things are run. Samueli has to buy up the Maloofs part of the ownership to gain control of the team. If you notice, the minority owners are mostly long term guys who aren't turning ownership over very much. It's more like a nest egg that could gain some nice value, but could be hard to sell.