{"id":608049,"date":"2026-03-05T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/608049\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:55:11","slug":"l-a-lakers-add-dodgers-exec-michael-spetner-as-chief-strategy-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/608049\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Lakers add Dodgers exec Michael Spetner as Chief Strategy Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">The Lakers have hired MICHAEL SPETNER as Chief Strategy &amp; Growth Officer to lead long-term business strategy and drive international expansion for the team. Spetner spent the last decade with the Dodgers, most recently as VP\/Business Strategy &amp; Analytics (Lakers). USA TODAY\u2019s Andres Soto wrote Spetner is a \u201cfamiliar hire\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/19\/dodgers-exec-rosen-returns-to-roots-as-lakers-president-of-business-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/19\/dodgers-exec-rosen-returns-to-roots-as-lakers-president-of-business-operations\/\">new Lakers President of Business Operations LON ROSEN<\/a>, who is \u201cbringing another\u201d Dodgers suit with him in the aftermath of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/18\/report-mark-walter-to-purchase-majority-ownership-of-lakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/18\/report-mark-walter-to-purchase-majority-ownership-of-lakers\/\">MARK WALTER\u2019s purchase of the team<\/a>. Spetner reportedly \u201cfocused heavily on engaging with international audiences\u201d during his tenure with the Dodgers, and the team\u2019s footprint in Japan has \u201cskyrocketed\u201d in the last two years after the signings of P\/DH SHOHEI OHTANI, P YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO and P ROKI SASAKI. Spetner reportedly \u201chelped the team capitalize\u201d on the signings \u201cby overseeing efforts to launch a fan club based in Japan and the creation of an immersive exhibit in Tokyo highlighting the team\u2019s history\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/lakers\/2026\/03\/04\/lakers-michael-spetner-dodgers-hire\/88986463007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA TODAY, 3\/4<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">WORLD TOUR: In California, Michael Duarte wrote Spetner\u2019s role is \u201cdesigned to stretch the Lakers\u2019 brand across the globe.\u201d With international players like G LUKA DONCIC (Slovenia) and F RUI HACHIMURA (Japan), Spetner will now bring the Dodgers\u2019 \u201csame playbook courtside.\u201d The Dodgers have become an \u201cinternational powerhouse\u201d in recent years, and owner Mark Walter is \u201capplying that same philosophy to the Lakers\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/04\/sports\/lakers-hire-former-dodgers-executive-michael-spetner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CALIFORNIA POST, 3\/4<\/a>). SI\u2019s Ryan Ward wrote it is \u201cbecoming very clear that Walter is wasting no time reshaping the team\u2019s front office,\u201d as he continues to bring in people from the Dodgers to \u201chelp sustain the Lakers\u2019 franchise success for the foreseeable future\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\/news\/lakers-make-another-move-to-shake-up-front-office-01kjx14p86ha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SI, 3\/4<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers have hired MICHAEL SPETNER as Chief Strategy &amp; Growth Officer to lead long-term business strategy and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,1696,10503,9600,4,260],"class_list":["post-608049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-basketball","tag-leaders","tag-leadership","tag-mlb","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116177622049571322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}