One of the main focuses for the Los Angeles Lakers this offseason is building out their front office staff. Rob Pelinka said the team planned on hiring two assistant general managers this offseason and the franchise has already landed on one, reportedly hiring former New Orleans Pelicans vice president of strategy and operations Rohan Ramadas.
Ramadas’ focus will be in that same area for the Lakers in terms of strategy, salary cap, and analytics and he is certainly qualified for the role with one person calling him a literal rocket scientist, via Shams Charania and Dave McMenamin of ESPN:
“He’s a literal rocket scientist,” a Pelicans source told ESPN.
While working for the Pelicans, Ramadas implemented AI and coded models to aid the front office, the source told ESPN.
This isn’t just hyperbole coming from the source as, after graduating from the Univeristy of Southern California, Ramadas spent more than a decade working with the Aerospace Corporation before joining the Pelicans. Now, he comes to the Lakers where he will play a similar role as he did in New Orleans, helping the front office and opening their eyes to different things via his different models that he will implement.
It is well known that the Lakers had a bit of a bare bones front office staff, especially when it came to the analytics department. And that is one of the areas where Mark Walter taking over as owner will benefit this franchise as they will now be able to build full departments in different areas throughout the organization that will greatly benefit everyone from the players to the coaching staff and beyond.
The Lakers will still be hiring one more assistant general manager who will be focused more on the scouting and development side of things and with that in place the Lakers front office will be completely equipped to utilize the resources available to them under the ownership of Walter. And that will only make this franchise that much better from top to bottom.
Luka Doncic believes Lakers were championship contenders before injuries
Once all of the pieces in the front office come together it will allow for them to properly build a roster around superstar Luka Doncic that can compete for a championship. And Doncic himself doesn’t believe they were far off as he felt this season’s squad were championship contenders during their late-season stretch before being hit with injuries that marred the end of the year.
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