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even the Buss daughter, Jeanie, is in her role as head of basketball ops for the first time.
No one the Lakers have in their most important positions have ever done the work of running a franchise before.
that just seems like a strange way to do things if you ask me.
I mean also if you look at the way the Warriors handled their situations is kind of a night and day difference. Before hiring Myers as their full time GM, they hired him initially as their assistant GM and kept Larry Riley to show him the ropes. Even though it was the plan all along to make him the GM, they put him a position to learn on the job without sacrificing much. Additionally when they first hired Mark Jackson, they forced him (against his wishes) to hire Mike Malone on their staff as their associate head coach. They brought in Jerry West to be a special advisor to the team.
I'm not against the hires of Luke and Pelinka (Luke especially given his hc experience with the Warriors), but Pelinka needed to get a year of being an assistant GM under his belt imo. Not to say anything would necessarily be different, but the approach would be more logical.