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Joe Biden’s sweeping Covid proposals will encounter push-back from conservatives - and, perhaps, from the courts - but at least Biden understands that he has to boost public confidence.īLASTING THE 80 MILLION American adults who have not gotten vaccinated, Biden sent a sharp message: “We’ve been patient with those who refuse to be vaccinated. STUNNED TO SEE THE ECONOMY DECELERATING, and facing a major haircut on new social spending, the Biden Administration took off the gloves yesterday. Most people believed that Rob Pelinka would fill the vacuum of authority in the Lakers front office, but it seems more and more clear that it’s actually Rambis - who has fewer qualifications than Pelinka did when he was hired - is the latest retread with Laker blood to make his presence felt in basketball operations.įor more Lakers talk, subscribe to the Silver Screen and Roll podcast feed on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts. Furthermore, Rambis and his wife Linda were reportedly part of the minority opinion in the front office that didn’t want to hire Lue, and likely played a role in the team devaluing Lue during the hiring process.Īll of those actions sound like the behavior of someone with substantial personnel power. There were rumors that the Lakers tried to force Luke Walton to hire Rambis as an assistant before his firing, and then did the same thing to Tyronn Lue before those negotiations fell apart. Rambis took part in the team’s head coaching search, interviewing Jason Kidd during phase one and holding significant power throughout. Much like Magic Johnson, who was rehired as a consultant for Jeanie Buss before becoming president, Rambis has steadily assumed more power throughout his most recent tenure in Los Angeles. Per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin, he started joining the team for road trips after the All-Star break. Rambis rejoined the Lakers as a senior basketball adviser last September after a failed stint on the New York Knicks coaching staff, including as interim head coach. One executive even called him the Lakers’ “shadow president.” Multiple executives, when polled, suggested the Lakers should make sure they have their front-office hierarchy established before hiring a coach, and it appears they have, with Rambis stepping into that role.
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He also made the move for Jason Kidd, who will serve on the bench as an assistant coach. As it turns out, the shadow executive was in front of us the whole time.Īfter the Lakers front office finally made its first decision since Magic’s departure, hiring head coach Frank Vogel with Jason Kidd as an assistant, Bleacher Report’s Eric Pincus reported that management has settled on a coherent structure going forward, and the acting president is sort of Kurt Rambis:Īccording to a person familiar with the negotiations, it wasn’t general manager Rob Pelinka but senior basketball adviser Kurt Rambis who orchestrated the Vogel hiring. Suffice it to say, while it was fun for fans to speculate about a superhero swooping in to save the franchise, it turns out there was never any real chance that the Lakers would look beyond their own organizational family for help. Essentially, Los Angeles was targeting a high-level executive already employed by another playoff team to replace Johnson, but couldn’t reveal who it was while his team was still playing. In the earlier, halcyon days of the offseason, back when there was a hope that the Los Angeles Lakers front office had a plan to regroup in the wake of Magic Johnson’s resignation, the “shadow executive” theory was a popular explanation for the new president of basketball operations not being named yet.