ESPN: LAL will not replace Magic, Pelinka will report directly to ownership

[kobe808lak]

Bob Meyers would be a hell of a get.

[meetbishop]

Guys, Ramona is a mouthpiece for the Lakers front office. That has been proven time and time again where she has either propagated truths or lies on their behalf.

So, the answer is either A) there really is nobody at all or B) there is soneone that they cant legally say yet or dont want to say yet, and ramona is helping with optics without truly actually knowing what us happening.

Either way, this is the lakers i love. Throw smoke, keep everyone guessing. Then pounce.

OR

C) That person is still Magic who can work under the radar without any tampering charges. We know Magic cannot keep his mouth shut and is still talking saying it is almost like he never left?

[tamaraw08]

Why are we thinking that people who are 10+ years over the retirement age will be the saviors of this franchise? Being an executive is hard job, especially when you need to change the direction of a big market franchise w/ this level of pressure. In normal organizations executives usually retire in their early 60s, because they don't want to work that much in that age.

Riley might be a unique person, but still… He seems to be keeping half of his eye on his own retirement. I'm sure that he will keep his job until he can do the work, but as he already admitted no chance he will take another president level job in another org.

Jerry is not even taking up those level of roles in any organization (being a board member is totally different than running an org), and I'm quite sure that this is not because other organizations haven't needed a good GM in the last 2 years.

This!. great points. They prefer to hire ex Lakers bec they are family they trust but at some point they need to consider the age and of course the ample training they received the past.
There is no salary cap for front office and coaching and yet they have been very reluctant to approach proven executives like what Toronto did. And it' s not like these top Execs are getting 10 mil/year, a kind of money that the Lakers should be able to afford with the revenue they are getting.

[tamaraw08]

On the Simmons/Russillo podcast:

Bill: -talking about Sam Presti possibly leaving- "Now would be the time to go.. there's some good jobs."

Russillo: "Looks like that Lakers job is never gonna be open, huh?"

Bob: "Well, I think they're waiting for someone. I don't even think it's a secret anymore. One of the GM's of a current playoff team is going to get that job."

Then they talk about Bob Meyers and how perfect he'd be for the Lakers job. Talk about how he's well liked, how he's done a good job in Golden State and talking about how he never takes credit for anything and cares less about who gets credit.

More smoke to the fire.

So that's Jackie MacMullan, Stephen A, Colin Cowherd, Bill Simmons, etc. That's a ton of people who know what's going on around the league who say something is going on with the Lakers job.

Or they could be just simply spitballing, throwing out ideas to keep their their listeners hooked and interested.
I hope you are right though, but it just doesn't make sense to me why Pelinka is doing all the interviews for coaches and yet the POBO position hasn't been filled up yet. Don't they want to get his most VALUABLE INPUT on who to hire?
What if this supposedly POBO have more significant questions to the prospect coaches on their specific visions/strategies, their ideal coaching staff etc etc.?

[Desiderium]

On the Simmons/Russillo podcast:

Bill: -talking about Sam Presti possibly leaving- "Now would be the time to go.. there's some good jobs."

Russillo: "Looks like that Lakers job is never gonna be open, huh?"

Bob: "Well, I think they're waiting for someone. I don't even think it's a secret anymore. One of the GM's of a current playoff team is going to get that job."

Then they talk about Bob Meyers and how perfect he'd be for the Lakers job. Talk about how he's well liked, how he's done a good job in Golden State and talking about how he never takes credit for anything and cares less about who gets credit.

More smoke to the fire.

So that's Jackie MacMullan, Stephen A, Colin Cowherd, Bill Simmons, etc. That's a ton of people who know what's going on around the league who say something is going on with the Lakers job.

Or they could be just simply spitballing, throwing out ideas to keep their their listeners hooked and interested.
I hope you are right though, but it just doesn't make sense to me why Pelinka is doing all the interviews for coaches and yet the POBO position hasn't been filled up yet. Don't they want to get his most VALUABLE INPUT on who to hire?
What if this supposedly POBO have more significant questions to the prospect coaches on their specific visions/strategies, their ideal coaching staff etc etc.?

i think the rumor was they're getting approval/input from the new POBO while conducting the interviews. Dunno how true that is however.

[myersia]

Pelinka isn’t stupid.

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[Slava]

Pelinka isn’t stupid.

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Pelinka is a slimy eel but he's done nothing over the past 18 months in terms of building an infrastructure that's been lagging a decade behind the rest of the league to think he knows or understands the depth of the task expected of him.

[dockingsched]

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Buss has no plans to hire someone to replace Johnson, who is still expected to be part of the Lakers’ free-agent recruiting this summer in some capacity.

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[TheHartBreakKid]

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Dear god that would be great. He has made his sure of mistakes, but one could argue that all the mistakes were as a result of having to his hand getting forced due to their status as a small market team.





Other than the great early drafting recording, we have impressive later draft picks in Adams, ibaka, and Jackson.


We have ballsy moves in trading ibaka at a great time and taking the risk for PG.

Obviously the harden move will always be a glaring issue on his resume, and the melo experiment failed and losing Durant for nothing etc....


But we can again argue that management forced his hand at the harden trade by refusing to pay him, and no sane GM would have traded KD unless he demanded out.

The Melo/Schroeder moves weren’t great moves, but they are acceptable risks imo considering the situation they were in which was desperately trying to content with a horrible financial situation.


I would love presti more than any other names out there that can be realistically pursued.

[tamaraw08]

Jeanie Buss and the Los Angeles Lakers have no plans to hire someone to replace Magic Johnson.

Rob Pelinka has been empowered by Jeanie Buss to run the Lakers' coaching search and seems to have more power now.

When Johnson stepped down at the end of the regular season, there was rampant speculation that the Lakers could pursue a number of the NBA's most prominent front office executives. There have been no actual reported links involving the Lakers and any executives.

Pelinka is the former player agent of Kobe Bryant.

I am purely speculating here, but I think the Buss family are not exactly financially capable of spending tons of money right now. Most of us believe that bec this team is valued more than 2-3 billion dollars that they can spend whatever is necessary to build the best possible team of executives and team personnel.
There was a rumor before that Jerry West left not really bec of Phil Jackson but bec he was frustrated that Jerry did NOT fulfill a bonus(rumored to be 1 mil dollars)he promised after he signed Shaq.
Not a few scratched their heads when they found out Luke hired a bunch of his Arizona frat mates, I am thinking Jeanie and Jim back then said ok bec they are cheap hires.
Lakers had one of the best athletic trainers in history in Gary Vitti, and instead of hiring the next best AT available, they simply promoted Marco Nunez to the job. He was recently fired for obviously not meeting expectations.
Magic would NEVER say it, but I am thinking they have mis-communicated with Magic's compensation when he took over 2 years ago.
To say the Buss family is bankrupt is an overstatement, but I am speculating that they have been very hesitant to offer big contracts to lure the top personnel to help this team.

[Slava]

I don't think it's necessarily money, the younger Buss brothers work in important roles in scouting, g league management etc and Jeannie needs their support to maintain ownership.

If a new president, GM arrive and they want to install their own people, these people and their friends need to give up their jobs and move on. That's a big reason why Jeannie insists on hiring from within her circle.

[dockingsched]

Magic was reportedly making $10mil, more than someone like Morey. I think it’s more likely that reports are true that he wasn’t doing anything so when you think about it, there’s nothing to really replace.

[tamaraw08]

I don't think it's necessarily money, the younger Buss brothers work in important roles in scouting, g league management etc and Jeannie needs their support to maintain ownership.

If a new president, GM arrive and they want to install their own people, these people and their friends need to give up their jobs and move on. That's a big reason why Jeannie insists on hiring from within her circle.

But they can always ask the prospective BOPO if he is willing to retain most of the current staff or not and decide from there.
About Magic "reportedly" getting 10 mil/year, maybe he thought he's getting that amount but Jeanie thought it's much less than they talked about... Again there was a report that the late Jerry Buss took forever to pay West what he promised him when he sign Shaq.

[TylersLakers]

I do believe the whispers of Jeanie looking elsewhere to land a big name.

If she was truly going with Rob and didn't want to discuss other candidates or evaluate things, they would have already announced Rob as President of Basketball Operations or come out and spoke publicly about it. She knows the s**t storm going around, she's not that stupid.

The silence is pretty telling.

[Slava]

What kind of a self respecting top executive would deal with amateurs running something as important as scouting?

[slifersd]

Jeanie Buss at it again, folks. And to think, she is somehow hailed by the media circle as some kind of super genius. "Jeanie is sharp", they say. I know there aren't a lot of women in the NBA, so anytime a woman gets a prominent position, the media wants to just sing songs about her. But holy hell, this hype is dying a painful death right in front of our very eyes. The nepotism and favoritism within this organization is incredible.

[Vae Victus]

Magic was reportedly making $10mil, more than someone like Morey. I think it’s more likely that reports are true that he wasn’t doing anything so when you think about it, there’s nothing to really replace.

So basically this is Magic making the money he deserves from the Lakers considering how grossly underpaid he was during his playing days.

LOLOLOL

10m a year for whatever Magic did, oh man, this reminds me of Kobe's stupid extension while he was still recovering from major injury.

[dockingsched]

Kurt Rambis joined Rob in the latest coaching interview, which should give a clear idea of who is being empowered in the front office.

[Danny Darko]

Kurt Rambis joined Rob in the latest coaching interview, which should give a clear idea of who is being empowered in the front office.

I'm still foolishly hopeful he's just keeping Bob or Sam's seat warm.