Under the leadership of new majority owner Mark Walter, the Los Angeles Lakers have been revamping their front office over the last several months. They’re going from being run like a mom-and-pop small business to operating the way a modern-day NBA franchise is supposed to.
A few weeks ago, general manager and president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka said the franchise would look to hire two assistant general managers. It filled one of those roles by hiring Rohan Ramadas, who was previously the New Orleans Pelicans’ vice president of basketball operations and strategy and was described by a Pelicans source as a “literal rocket scientist.”
Los Angeles also recently got permission to interview Prosper Karangwa, the Philadelphia 76ers’ vice president of player personnel, for its other assistant general manager opening. But according to NBA insider Marc Stein, L.A. may strike out on its efforts to lure Karangwa (h/t Heavy Sports).
“There is a growing anticipation that Prosper Karangwa will elect to stay with the 76ers after the hiring of Mike Gansey as the team’s new president of basketball operations,” Stein wrote Monday in The Stein Line. “Karangwa is the Sixers’ vice president of player personnel and has drawn interest in recent weeks from the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas.”
If Stein is correct and Karangwa stays put, it won’t be the first time this year the Lakers have been told no by an attractive front-office candidate. According to a recent report by Yaron Weitzman, they offered Minnesota Timberwolves assistant general manager Steve Senior the role of executive vice president of basketball operations, but Senior said no.
This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: Report: Lakers assistant GM candidate expected to stay put with 76ers
Reporting by Robert Marvi, LeBron Wire / LeBron Wire
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