Lakers Could Make Their Strangest Offseason Addition Yet by Bringing in an Aerospace Engineer

Lakers fill one of two new assistant GM posts

The Los Angeles Lakers started their offseason front office expansion, hiring Rohan Ramadas away from the New Orleans Pelicans to fill one of two new assistant general manager positions, multiple outlets reported Monday.

Lakers Could Make Their Strangest Offseason Addition Yet by Bringing in an Aerospace Engineer

The Los Angeles Lakers may have just made one of the most unconventional front-office hires in the NBA. According to ESPN, the Lakers officially hired Rohan Ramadas as assistant general manager as the franchise begins reshaping its organization ahead of next season. And what immediately caught attention across the basketball world was not just the title — it was Ramadas’ background. Because before entering the NBA, Ramadas spent years working as…

Why the Lakers Picked Ramadas Over Morey

Daryl Morey was on the market, friends with Andrew Friedman, freshly out in Philadelphia, and somehow still not the person the Lakers hired. They went instead with Rohan Ramadas, a Pelicans vice president of strategy and operations whose name was unfamiliar outside front-office circles before ESPN’s Shams Charania broke the story. The instinctive reading of […] The post Why the Lakers Picked Ramadas Over Morey, and What That Choice Says About Th…

A second potential assistant GM candidate is emerging for the Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers filled their first assistant general manager position as they hired Rohan Ramadas to be in charge of strategy and data systems. But the team still plans to hire another who will be in charge of the player development and scouting side of things, and some names are beginning to emerge. The Lakers are still doing their due diligence in finding the right person for the job, but one name that is being linked to the organizatio…