{"id":669061,"date":"2026-05-28T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669061\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:20:08","slug":"report-l-a-lakers-conduct-round-of-layoffs-across-departments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669061\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: L.A. Lakers conduct round of layoffs across departments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Lakers have \u201cconducted layoffs across multiple departments\u201d on Wednesday, according to Rohlin &amp; Price of the CALIFORNIA POST. The layoffs are a \u201cpart of a reorganization following the sale of the team\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/30\/nba-approves-sale-of-lakers-to-mark-walter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/30\/nba-approves-sale-of-lakers-to-mark-walter\/\">from the Buss family to Mark Walter at a $10B valuation nearly a year ago<\/a>. The firings \u201cfollowed a widespread restructuring over the last few months,\u201d including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/19\/dodgers-exec-rosen-returns-to-roots-as-lakers-president-of-business-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/19\/dodgers-exec-rosen-returns-to-roots-as-lakers-president-of-business-operations\/\">Lon Rosen replacing Tim Harris as President of Business Operations<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/05\/lakers-add-dodgers-exec-michael-spetner-with-aim-of-boosting-global-footprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/05\/lakers-add-dodgers-exec-michael-spetner-with-aim-of-boosting-global-footprint\/\">Michael Spetner being hired as Chief Strategy &amp; Growth Officer<\/a> and Ryan Kantor being hired as VP\/Global Partnerships. The team also recently hired former Virginia men\u2019s basketball coach Tony Bennett as a draft consultant and advisor, as well as Rohan Ramadas as an Assistant GM of strategy and data system (<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/27\/sports\/lakers-have-massive-layoffs-under-new-ownership-reorganization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/27\/sports\/lakers-have-massive-layoffs-under-new-ownership-reorganization\/\">CALIFORNIA POST, 5\/27<\/a>). In California, Benjamin Royer cited a source as saying that \u201cteam employees in communications, content, partnerships and other departments were part of Wednesday\u2019s layoffs, totaling more than a dozen people.\u201d Royer notes on the basketball side, \u201cinput from the Dodgers has been notable as well.\u201d Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman and special advisor Farhan Zaidi have \u201chad a role in the reorganization of the Lakers\u2019 front office\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/05\/27\/sources-lakers-go-through-round-of-layoffs-amid-business-reorganization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 5\/27<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers have \u201cconducted layoffs across multiple departments\u201d on Wednesday, according to Rohlin &amp; Price of the CALIFORNIA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,6856,355,99],"class_list":["post-669061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-leadership","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}