Overview
- Reports published Thursday said the Lakers offered Minnesota assistant general manager Steve Senior the executive vice president of basketball operations job and Senior declined to remain with the Timberwolves.
- Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi of the Dodgers have been sitting in on interviews as advisers while the Lakers recruit two assistant general managers focused on personnel and on strategy and analytics.
- Rob Pelinka and longtime executive Kurt Rambis are leading a wide search and have already begun interviews as the franchise expands its basketball operations.
- Farhan Zaidi began calling agents in February to identify front-office and medical candidates, showing a months-long effort to build a deeper staff rather than make a single marquee hire.
- The rebuffed offer is an early recruiting setback that underscores rival teams’ ability to retain talent and means the Lakers will keep pursuing multiple hires while questions about Pelinka’s role remain secondary to the buildout.