The Los Angeles Lakers brass had a lot of thinking to do when designing their new home.
Decades-long nomads, bouncing from practice space to space, the 16-time NBA champions still never had a facility of their own. But this week, architects revealed details of the Lakers’ recently approved new headquarters and training facility in El Segundo, set to open in late spring 2017.
The visioning process for the $80 million facility that will house all team operations was no easy feat, however.
“It was a pretty intense process. Jeanie Buss (part-owner and president) said it was like therapy,” said Jim Renne, a principal at Rossetti, the lead architect, of the two-day visioning workshop.