Lakers’ Rob Pelinka proved he was not in over his head this offseason, writes columnist ArashMarkazi.
The issue for the Lakers from the start was that the New Orleans Pelicans had no intention of keeping the Lakers’ No. 4 pick. They had planned to trade it, which they ended up doing in a draft night deal with the Atlanta Hawks. So it was never really up to New Orleans to delay the trade 30 days, and there was no reason for the Hawks to delay the trade in order to help the Lakers secure maximum free agent money.
Before the perceived salary cap gaffe, there was the much publicized coaching search blunder in which the Lakers missed out on Monty Williams and Tyronn Lue before settling on Frank Vogel. This wasn’t like when the team hired Phil Jackson in 1999 and again in 2005. The idea, according to team officials, was to sign a coach with playoff experience to a three-year deal and surround him with an “all-star” coaching staff.It’s an unusual approach and clearly raised some red flags with Williams, who took a five-year deal with the Phoenix Suns instead, and Lue, who walked away from a three-year, $18-million offer to be the Lakers’ coach.
The problem is Lue wanted a five-year deal with an annual salary around $8 million and didn’t want to be told who would be on his staff. Lue won a championship with James in Cleveland and deserves to make those demands. The Lakers, however, felt as though they were negotiating against themselves, believing Lue wasn’t in the running for any other NBA coaching vacancies after being fired last season following Cleveland’s 0-6 start.
No one knows how the Lakers’ plan will pan out. They still have to do something with their salary cap space before the coaching staff can try to lead the Lakers back to the playoffs and to their first championship in a decade. But they do have a plan, and maybe it’s not as bad as some thought.
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