EL SEGUNDO >> Rob Pelinka offered fair warning.
“I’m a little bit of a storyteller by nature,” he said Friday.
Introduced Friday as the Lakers’ new general manager, Pelinka shared stories about meetings with Dr. Jerry Buss and quoted scripture. He shared a tale about a little boy in a Syrian refugee camp wearing a Kobe Bryant jersey, about a camping trip to Montana with Bryant – try to picture that – and about the time Kobe and his wife Vanessa met Pelinka at the emergency room after his son hit his head.
He compared his joining the Lakers to a great Hollywood romance: “When Harry Met Sally.