Is the Lakers Front Office Ready for the Offseason? Who's Doing What?

About this episode

The episode discusses the Lakers' dual focus on immediate team building around Luka Dončić and long-term improvements to their basketball operations as they approach the offseason.

The Lakers are simultaneously undertaking two projects that have some overlap in the Venn Diagram, but aren't entirely aligned. First, they have to think about how to build a winning team around Luka Dončić as quickly as possible, putting enormous pressure on this offseason to be quite excellent. Second, they're engaged in a long-term project of building out the basketball operation and the franchise generally into something far more modern and performing than it has been. The former project has its first big tests coming up soon with the Draft and free agency, both of which will provide opportunities to make significant signings and trades. And in that regard, while the Lakers have hired their analytics guy (a real rocket scientist) they haven't (at least publicly) done much else. Who are the scouts scouring the earth for the best available talent? Who is in the room when players do draft workouts? The Lakers are building a really big house, hopefully, and everyone wants the foundation to be solid and the furnishings to be top end. Mark Walter took some time developing the Dodgers organization into what it is today, and now it seems to run almost on autopilot, so strong is the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Andy Kamenetzky, Brian Kamenetzky

Topics covered

• Lakers offseason
• team building
• draft strategy
• free agency
• basketball operations

Keywords

• Lakers
• Luka Dončić
• draft
• free agency
• basketball operations
• Mark Walter
• team building

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lakers, Dodgers

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