Overview
- The Lakers hired Rohan Ramadas as an assistant general manager on Monday, May 25, 2026, to lead analytics, salary-cap modeling and strategic planning under president Rob Pelinka.
- Ramadas joins from the New Orleans Pelicans after two seasons as vice president of strategy and operations and is known for building AI and coded models to support player evaluation and roster construction.
- Before the NBA, Ramadas spent more than a decade at The Aerospace Corporation working on guidance, navigation and mission design for U.S. Space Force and NASA, a background sources described as making him a 'literal rocket scientist.'
- The team continues to recruit a second assistant GM to oversee pro scouting, draft evaluation and player development, and multiple external candidates have been interviewed during an expansive search.
- The hire fits a broader front-office expansion under new majority owner Mark Walter that uses Dodgers-style analytics consulting and responds to pressing offseason tasks such as LeBron James’s free agency, Austin Reaves’s contract decision, and tight cap math.