{"id":64245,"date":"2025-11-21T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/64245\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:14:09","slug":"two-dodgers-executives-to-advise-lakers-during-ownership-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/64245\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Dodgers executives to advise Lakers during ownership transition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The sports executives whom Mark Walter and his Guggenheim Baseball Management trusted to turn around the Dodgers and make them World Series winners have now enlisted Farhan Zaidi<\/a> and Andrew Friedman<\/a> to take on advisory roles with the Lakers<\/a>, people not authorized to speak publicly on the matter confirmed to The Times on Friday.<\/p>\n

Walter, the controlling owner of the Dodgers<\/a>, purchased majority ownership of the Lakers for a $10-billion evaluation and has started a transition from the Buss family ownership<\/a> by having Zaidi and Friedman become more involved.<\/p>\n

Zaidi is an advisor with Guggenheim and he was the former president of baseball operations with the San Francisco Giants and a former Dodgers general manager. He also has been consulting with the Sparks, another team that Walter owns.<\/p>\n

Friedman is the president of baseball operations for the Dodgers and has overseen a team that has won three World Series titles in the last six years.<\/p>\n

Both are known in the baseball world as executives who rely on analytics. The Lakers have been known as having a weak analytics department, so Zaidi and Friedman will play a role in improving that.<\/p>\n

Friedman already has been talking with Rob Pelinka, the Lakers\u2019 president of basketball operations, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n

The Lakers began making changes in their front office when they fired Joey and Jesse Buss as well as some scouts on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Joey Buss was an alternate governor and vice president of research and development with the Lakers while Jesse was the team\u2019s assistant general manager and head of the scouting department.<\/p>\n

Fresh off winning a World Series with the Dodgers, Walter, who had been a minority owner of the Lakers since he bought 27% of the franchise with Todd Boehly in 2021, promptly sat courtside for the next Lakers home game Nov. 2. He looked on when the Lakers honored the world champion Dodgers at a home game on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n

Walter was part of the group that purchased the Dodgers for $2 billion in 2012. Since then, the team has won three World Series titles in five appearances with 13 consecutive playoff berths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sports executives whom Mark Walter and his Guggenheim Baseball Management trusted to turn around the Dodgers and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10558,38609,38605,38606,38607,38162,38163,48,52,51,1415,47,50,49,26269,38164,38608,592,38610,427,24660],"class_list":{"0":"post-64245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-andrew-friedman","9":"tag-baseball-operation","10":"tag-dodgers-executive","11":"tag-farhan-zaidi","12":"tag-former-president","13":"tag-jesse-buss","14":"tag-joey","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-lakers","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","21":"tag-los-angeles-news","22":"tag-mark-walter","23":"tag-next-lakers-home-game","24":"tag-ownership-transition","25":"tag-people","26":"tag-sport-executive","27":"tag-team","28":"tag-world-series-winner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}