[McMenamin] In addition to Joey and Jesse Buss being terminated by the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday, much of the scouting staff has also been let go, sources told ESPN.
[McMenamin] In addition to Joey and Jesse Buss being terminated by the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday, much of the scouting staff has also been let go, sources told ESPN.
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Who’s the best scouts money can buy? Who should we be looking to acquire here?
the dodgerfication of the lakers has begun
Can we buyout okc’s and Memphis staff?
Lakers will now be run like the Dodgers. Hiring only the absolute best people for the job, no matter the expense. The family business model worked in the past but you can’t get away with that anymore in 2025.
The only consistently good part of our front office is gone. Damn.
Tough man. Very, very curious to see who they bring in. Clearly Walter and Co. are looking for new blood. The scouting department has been among the best things in the FO, but if we can go poach some talent then it is what it is.
I’d love to see an announcement of what exactly we’re planning here. Hopefully a giant overhaul lead by someone with a vision on the drafting side.
I have to believe there is a plan here. The Lakers scouting team has done fairly well considering our lack of high picks, so I hope they have some high level replacement scouts in mind.
Cashing out on some scouters
JJ finding out the mfs that scouted JHS, Maxwell Lewis & Knecht getting fired
Next CBA going to have a salary cap for scouts
What’s a metric to quantify a “good scout”?
I lowkey think the lakers scouting team is good.
YESSSSSSSSSS. IT BEGINS
I wonder how much of the current (well now previous) scouting was data driven? Cause we know how analytics driven the Dodgers are run now and if the Lakers were just going by eye tests like they probably did when Tex Winter worked with the team.
Maybe new ownership wants to ‘modernize’ scouting now I don’t know much about baseball and even less about basketball but I feel like analytics based player acquisition works better in baseball than basketball.
Let the Guggening begin
….. Is Highway Rob long for the team?
Yikes was our scouting that bad? In mark that trust but these are some drastic changes
It’s a lake full of blood!
Jim Buss is at the corner and yelling consoling his brothers /s
I BELIEVE THIS WILL WORK IN THE LONG TERM BECAUSE I HAVE TO BELIEVE THIS WILL LEAD TO THE NEXT MAGIC/KOBE LAKER LIFER
Oh ok, makes sense now. Let’s get a nice scouting department. I guess this is the price u pay for hood schafino and tht. Also when is the Rambi leaving
Dodgers org coming in
Why if Jeannie is still there for the next 5 years?
I blame JHS for all of this
Was it necessary to clean house? I can’t help but feel like we have a top tier scouting team and how confident are we that they can substantially improve on scouting?
About friggin time we probably have the worst scouting staff out of the league
W
Next year’s city edition jersey pls be collab
Thought they did a good job guess ownership thought other wise
I feel that scouting was the best part of the front office? What gives?
The scouting department has been incredible for the last decade with Ryan West, Jesse, and Joey. Disappointing what has happened to day but I will trust the process. It was hard seeing Ryan go, but time will tell.
Seems like a mistake. Lakers scouts have been adept at finding talent deep in the draft. I hope they know what they’re doing!
now get rid of those Rambis parasites
Now do Kurt and Linda, and get them tf out of admin operations.
I felt like our scouts weren’t doing a bad job. Think of all the amazing players we’ve recruited that went on to have great starter level careers. The problem was the constant trading with no benefit.
#LETS REALLY RUIN BASKETBALL!!!!
I need to see the Rambo’s gone
I want the best of the best, with the best analytics dept and everything. European scouts. China scouts is probably next on the horizon.
However- the lakers scouts have turned some good prospects out of the second round or worse over last few years with Caruso, AR, max Christie, mo Wagner and svi looked pretty solid in Utah game and I forgot he existed), kuzma, zubac, nance. Those are all dudes that panned out for us that weren’t blue chips. There were a couple misses in that time slot, but not many.
The blue chips we picked- we missed on d lo and lonzo. Randle and Ingram were good picks. Maybe not the BeST picks, but still great players.