Revealing the secret of how hard the Lakers were before selling their team: Many people have multiple jobs, no scout department + no shooting coach in three years

On June 20, Lakers reporter Anthony Irwin wrote an article about the Lakers selling their team, revealing how stingy this team was before changing their boss. They asked multiple members of the uniformed team to hold multiple positions and paid assistant coaches one of the lowest in the league. The Lakers do not have a special scouting department, and have not even hired a shooting coach for three years.

Irwin said in the article that under the leadership of the Bass family, the Lakers have always been one of the most streamlined teams in the NBA. Uniform team members were asked to undertake quite incredible multiple tasks. Pelinka also serves as the team's president and general manager of basketball operations. Jesse Bass is the team's assistant general manager and scout director. Joey Buss is officially the vice president of R&D, and he is also the president and CEO of the South Bay Lakers.

As an NBA team, the Lakers also lack some pretty standard aspects. They do not have a dedicated professional scouting department, and these responsibilities are shared by basketball operators. They have not hired a shooting coach for three years since Mike Pembersey left in 2022. Compared to other teams in the league, their analytics and video departments are extremely scarce.

There was a time when Miles Simon was the Lakers assistant coach, while also shouldering the task of being the head coach of the South Bay Lakers. League sources also said the Lakers paid assistant coaches one of the lowest in the league.

With the arrival of new boss Walter, this will all change, and there will be more changes.

Irwin said that under Walter's leadership, it is not impossible for the Lakers to offer generous conditions to Presti, Ujeri or any other elite executives to take over the team and make the team's operations more stable than under Pelinka. .

Previously, Walter's Dodgers hired Dave Roberts as their manager and has been hiring some of the best assistant coaches in baseball. This makes Roberts one of the best managers in the sport. The Lakers must have valued Redick very much, considering him a young and promising head coach, but if there are more respected assistants around him, his chances of reaching his full potential will be greatly increased.

In the entire league, 29 other teams are secretly worried about the arrival of this day. Since Jerry Bass bought the Lakers in 1979, the Lakers have achieved great success as a team organization. Although gradually they are surpassed by some of the more modern teams in the league, they are still constantly winning championships. Now, imagine a world where in the NBA, the team organization that attracts the most star powers also has the resources to maximize every opportunity they work with these stars, starting with Doncic and LeBron James.

Yes, that's what other NBA teams have always hoped that it wouldn't happen.