Analyzing the Lakers front office is always an impossible task because of all the ambiguity involved. At the top, we know Jeanie Buss has final say and some general direction in regards to business, and we’re sure somewhere along the way a couple of Rambii get involved. But what comes before then as decisions get made?
This wouldn’t matter in the slightest if the Lakers were going in the right direction, but they’ve been seemingly drowning ever since winning their 17th championship and are hurtling towards the latest most important offseason in franchise history. This week in “The Lakers Lounge,” Harrison Faigen and I sat down and tried, with as much context as possible, to figure out whether we trust Rob Pelinka with that task.