While the Lakers have spoken about expanding the front office, only announcing the major moves leaves it unclear how much is happening behind the scenes.<\/p>\n
President of Basketball Operations Rob Pelinka offered a peek behind the curtain of the hirings the franchise has made this offseason while speaking to the media on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuper appreciative of the support of Jeanie [Buss] and ownership to build out and we\u2019ve added over 15 people in the front office to various positions,\u201d Pelinka said. \u201c[We\u2019ve] really built out our strategy and analytics department, have hired two assistant general managers. [We] have more to do and we\u2019re actually continuing to do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen in terms of player services, as JJ said, we\u2019ve really rebuilt our entire sort of player experience and player development arm. And with that comes new equipment and new recovery and modalities, and we\u2019ve worked with our training department to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The franchise also hired Rohan Ramadas<\/a> and Eric Amsler<\/a> as new assistant general managers. The former will focus on the analytics and strategy side, which Pelinka alluded to, while Amsler comes over from the Heat after being the vice president of player personnel in Miami.<\/p>\n After clearing house of its scouting department last year, the Lakers are planning on building it out more now under Amsler\u2019s guidance.<\/p>\n \u201cI think you guys saw we hired Eric Amsler, who was two decades with the Heat, to kind of see over our player personnel, our draft scouting, our G-League scouting, and NBA scouting,\u201d Pelinka said. \u201cSo, we\u2019re going to be adding more scouts in those departments. That\u2019s just one example of a sort of a vertical that will continue to build.\u201d<\/p>\n The catch is that it\u2019s unlikely any of these hirings will be made public. So, again, we\u2019ll have to assume the Lakers are doing the work and, hopefully, see the results in improved scouting in the months to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Lakers have spoken about expanding the front office, only announcing the major moves leaves it unclear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[43364,355,99],"class_list":["post-863275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-lakers-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863275","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=863275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}