{"id":611027,"date":"2026-02-19T05:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611027\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:22:22","slug":"important-member-of-lakers-front-office-is-leaving-after-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611027\/","title":{"rendered":"Important member of Lakers&#8217; front office is leaving after this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It could be the beginning of a new day, so to speak, for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> now that Mark Walter owns a majority share of the franchise. The sale was completed in October 2025, and fans have been wondering what type of changes could be coming to the franchise as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The first move came in November when Joey and Jesse Buss, who had been longtime members of the Lakers&#8217; front office, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/joey-jesse-buss-fired-lakers-014446182.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:were fired;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were fired<\/a>, along with much of the team&#8217;s scouting department. Now, another front office stalwart will be leaving not too long from now.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Tim Harris, the Lakers&#8217; president of business operations, told the team that he will be leaving after this season, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanWoikeSports\/status\/2023837619248062860\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dan Woike of The Athletic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dan Woike of The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lakers president of business operations Tim Harris informed staff Tuesday that this will be his final season with the organization per sources,&#8221; Woike wrote on X (formerly Twitter). &#8220;Harris, who was the driving force between the massive local TV rights deal with Spectrum SportsNet, has been with the Lakers\/The Forum for more than 35 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear why Harris will be leaving the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Woike <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/report-lakers-model-front-office-130129380.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:also reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also reported<\/a> earlier this month that the Lakers are expected to hire people for a wide range of front-office positions this summer and model their front office after that of Walter&#8217;s Dodgers. The Dodgers have won the last two World Series championships and are seen as Major League Baseball&#8217;s model franchise.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/lebronwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/02\/18\/important-member-of-lakers-front-office-is-leaving-after-this-season\/88749968007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Important member of Lakers&#039; front office is leaving after this season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Important member of Lakers&#8217; front office is leaving after this season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It could be the beginning of a new day, so to speak, for the Los Angeles Lakers now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,2931,3225,49169,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,22699,6,81120],"class_list":{"0":"post-611027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-front-office","11":"tag-jesse-buss","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-lakers","14":"tag-lakers","15":"tag-lalakers","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-losangeleslakers","20":"tag-mark-walter","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-tim-harris"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116095624919856007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}