New Lakers Owners Discussion: Kushner + Iger

We will wish for return of the Rambii. Kurt may be a moron, but noone ever questioned his Lakershood.

 

Few hours ago, this was an impossible scenario. Now, not so much

 

Eh, don’t like the continuous shake up but I’ll see how things play out before passing judgement.

Never really bought the “Dodger-ification” of the Lakers, that having Walters as the owner inherently meant our basketball operations would be significantly better. I don’t think we really saw that come to fruition, so I’m not hung up on that hypothetical wish. Whether Walters didn’t have time to implement those things, whether the structure of a basketball FO and the rules they’re confined by just make it a different game than baseball, whether he didn’t care enough to do those investments and just was using the franchise as a flip, or whether he’s screwed legally and had no choice… it just doesn’t matter to me at this point.

Obviously the optics aren’t great going from Walters to the new group, but say hypothetically Walters never got involved and Jeannie had sold directly to Kushner/Iger… I’d probably have still seen that as good news simply due to having more financial resources.

To an extent, I just have to assume that anyone investing this much into the Lakers HAS to know that the legacy of winning is the cornerstone of the franchise value. If they want their asset to appreciate (and one could argue they may be more incentivized than Walters since they don’t have his same level of wealth) they have to know the importance of continuing to invest into winning.

Will they know the pathway to structure the basketball ops in a way that leads to winning? That remains to be seen. But I also don’t think Iger’s Disney resume is something that we can read too much into in terms of how what he did at Disney might translate to being involved in basketball ownership.

Overall I’m most curious to whether there will be any imminent changes to the structure of our basketball ops, Jeanie and Pelinka’s involvement going forward, and for now how this might influence Pelinka’s willingness to trade future assets to help bring in a starting caliber wing.

 

Iger is a big sports fan and loves hoops so there's that. Could be a good thing. Could be a bad thing. Just no way to know one way or another at this point.

I agree that I was let down that we didn't make more immediate changes to our basketball operations, especially with this summer being so important.

This is all a bit surreal to me right now, so I don't have any heavy negative or positive thoughts on the new guys just yet.

 

The failed World Cup heist tells me everything i need to know about these guys. Im devastaded and we're screwed.

 

if iger/kushner hire competent people to run the show, stay out of the way, and pay up when they need to, we'll be fine

can't say i have much faith though