[Murray] Rob Pelinka says that Lakers will hire two assistant general managers: - one for pro scouting/draft/evaluation - one for strategy/salary cap
everytime you hear about how bad the lakers front office was for years you become baffled that they have been mostly decent
Their scouting department was very good for a long time
Their college scouting department was good. We didn’t have a pro scouting department. Hence why we found diamonds in a rough with Reaves, Ingram, Zubac and signed guys like Gabe Vincent
Too bad the two Buss kids who actually knew a little about the game got pushed out.
The Rambae (Rambises??) are the greatest power couple of all time? Many are saying so.
I was thinking it was Seth Rollins & Becky Lynch..
But the Rambis’s clear them sooooooo easily..
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Why? Every superstar wants to play for the Lakers even if their front office was ass. Huge money in endorsements being the lakers star player.
Y’all must not have been around before LeBron went to the Lakers. They were the definition of a poverty franchise. Every year, people would be saying the same thing about Lakers privilege and no one went there.
‘definition of a poverty franchise’
miss me with this bullshit
they missed the playoffs for 6 years and were less 10 years removed from b2b chips and three straight finals the entire time
the lakers have never been a poverty franchise
They were utter dog shit for those years and belonged in the same category as Kings and Pelicans
6 years. fuck outta here
5 if you don’t count the Bron groin injury year.
Lakers fans don’t know what it means to be a poverty franchise
We don’t. And it’s funny that they’re qualifying such a short moment in history as the equivalent to the Kings and Pelicans.
To be fair, 3 of those seasons were dealing with post achilles tear Kobe and his max contract. There was no building a contender in that situation, so no star was really wanting to do that. We used that, and a couple years after to draft lottery players to work on resetting things. People act like there was no direction or hope and LeBron magically saved it, but if it wasn’t LeBron it would have been someone else, we had a bunch of cap space and a bunch of young talent. It was always kind of the plan after Kobe retired.
Y’all didn’t have any direction and were a dumpster fire before LeBron decided to go there and Jeannie took control. Every season after Kobe retired they’d go hunting in FA with all the cap space they had and ended up with Mozgov, Deng and KCP on laughable contracts.
Y’all actually to use D’lo to dump Mozgovs contract to clear cap space for Bron.
Casuals think players just want to go to the Lakers because of the name when playing situation matters. Lakers are able to attract talent now because they’re actually competent on top of being the Lakers.
I remember we gave LMA a recruiting pitch..
Had no chance.. lmao..
The worst part about that was they begged for a second “do-over” pitch.
Cringe as fuck.
KD didn’t even take a meeting with them in 2016 and that man talked to EVERYBODY that summer.
He wanted to take the hardest road, not the impossible road
Yeah but y’all ended up getting Mozgod so who really won that one?
::sighs::
Yep it’s one of those jobs you have to actively screw up, they get first dibs at everyone
Lamarcus Aldridge met w us in free agency after he left Portland, and our FO decided a Jerry Bruckheimer video about the glitz and glamour of Hollywood would sway him here.
Dude gave us a 2nd meeting to sign him and we still fucking fumbled it lol
Source? This sounds hilarious.
i see this sentiment all the time but it doesnt actually play out like this lol
lebron signed with us in 2018
before that, our biggest FA signing was…MWP round 2?
People always say this, but what stars signed with the Lakers as free agents before Lebron
Pelinka landed AD and Luka. For that he deserves credit. Not many current GMs can say that the acquired names as big as those 2.
Pelinka low key deserves alot of credit for Luka. If any other GM pulled that off he’d be considered a god.
Maybe I’m bugging but didn’t something come out this year or last that they’ve only just updated their data and analytics team.
Lakers drafted very well actually
Because of the superstar factor.
The Lakers have had the worst role player group of any “good” team in the league for several years now, since the Westbrook trade.
I know Caruso is the one who got away, but they really shoulda found a way to keep Max and Goodwin.
The LeBron effect
It helps when they can bypass draft whiffs with superstar trades that no one else can pull off (hell, would’ve also had prime CP3 if Stern wasn’t commish) or get the occasional generational talent to sign outright and move over from the East.
Thank LeBron lol
not really that baffling when you consider they can just sign the GOAT runner up to bail out a failing rebuild
or you get some heroic team like the 2008 Grizzlies or 2025 Mavs to donate them another franchise guy
Was it failing? Most those guys ended up good/allstars
Just lakers have no patience lol
We saw that team play out. On the New Orleans Pelicans.
They were a fringe Playoff team at best. And in fact a lot of the players that drove the Playoff run weren’t even Lakers (CJ, Zion, Herb Jones, Alvarado, etc)
Where do you think you’d be right now with a Randle-Ingram-Kuzma-Lonzo Ball core?
Cancun
how did a franchise like the fucking lakers, already not have this?
it really was run like a poverty franchise…
Was a “mom & pop” type setup from when that type of thing lead to success
Wasn’t our whole scouting department just like one of the Buss brothers for a long time?
Wasn’t it them until this draft lol
Their role got greatly reduced right before the 2023 draft. Rumors are that Pelinka loved JHS and Max Lewis while the Buss brothers did not, and convinced Jeanie to move draft scouting responsibilities solely to him.
That’s only college scouting. The Lakers under Jeanie have never had a pro scouting department.
Don’t think it was just him but Jesse Buss was in charge
With help from the Rambii
Seems like without West, nobody actually knew how to run a basketball team
Nico Harrison really did bail them out
They had scouting, draft with the buss brother
Rob was doing the other job
Because Jeanie was poor and had her friends running the team. Mark Walter is here to save me once again.
The Buss only had the Lakers while other owners own a lot of shit.
Wow we finally not gonna be ran by Jeanie’s family and friends .
Assistant to the general manager
Need Pelinka outta there ASAP. Mark Walter can bring in his own guy.
Not a Lakers fan but I agree
His time should be done
The Luka move shouldn’t save him considering it was 99% incompetence on the Mavs
Don’t need him out. He’s the only NBA guy left in the org. He’s a figurehead and a paperwork guy now.
Mark is gonna keep him around for a few years minimum just to get a swing of things. happened with the dodgers too.
Music to my years. No more mom and pop shit.
Someone tell me how many assistant GMs the THunder have. The Lakers need to double that amount.
I know the Wolves have like five.
Bron really dragged this franchise through years of front office caveman ball 😭
Wild that they’re just now adding basic infrastructure most competent teams have had forever. This org has been run like a family business with luxury branding for way too long.
Isn’t that what Kurt and Linda Rambis still on staff for
wow we’re finally gonna be a real grown up modern franchise!
Good Cop, Bad Cop
Tennessee Titans basically did the same thing for a few years at a higher level until consolidating a few weeks ago. It’s an interesting strategy as of course the person who may be perfect at evaluating could be obviously ass at the various tricks of a salary cap. It also pushes the heat off the more front-facing guy (scouting person) if a team can’t get someone due to the money (finance person). Wish the Lakers the best.
This is the way
Wtf have they been waiting for? Hurry tf up
Well yeah obviously in hindsight im glad we traded them for AD and that lebron came
Im just saying at the time they were too young to call them failures.
I believe you leave Rob as “the face”, the “negotiator” , the slick and the snake that will smooth talk you into believing him . He is perfect for that job if you ask me. Just add some actual knowledge and analytics and a financial injection with the right people doing “the math”.
Also Walter just bought the Lakers and Rob handed him the best present ever with Luka. Instant 1 BN Dollar win.
Rob hiring one of his replacements methinks
That’s Daryl Morey’s music