According to Lakers reporter Anthony Irwin, although Lakers general manager Pelinka failed to hire Hurley, his position within the Lakers remains solid and is unlikely to change.
A few days ago, the Lakers were willing to offer an annual salary of 70 million for 6 years to invite NCAA champion coach Hurley to coach the Lakers, but Hurley refused, and this refusal caused Pelinka's resume to have both the fiasco of hiring Lue at the beginning, and now the experience of being rejected by the NCAA coach, which is very unusual in the eyes of the outside world. It is believed that not many executives in the league can survive such a public humiliation once, let alone twice.
At the same time, Pelinka's selection of coaches has also been ridiculed by American fans, who believe that Pelinka is completely ineligible to continue to be qualified for the Lakers' presidency, and they believe that Hurley's rejection of the Lakers' invitation is very correct, and some Lakers fans have been discussing how the Lakers got to where they are today, and now even the league's top management has noticed that it seems that there is a problem with the Lakers' funding chain, the reason is that the Lakers' recruitment efforts in recent years seem to be to choose low-salary players, or even base-salary players.
It is not unreasonable for Pelinka, who is also a senior executive of management, to be ridiculed, so let's take a look at the Celtics' case of recruitment.
The Celtics stunned everyone with a series of trades in the offseason, trading Kemba Walker, the 16th first-round pick that year, and the 2025 second-round pick for Horford. This was followed by Romeo Langford, Josh Richardson and a 2022 first-round pick to get guard Derrick White from the Spurs. Then send Smart, one of the two point guards, to the Grizzlies, and then complete the Porzingis trade, among them, the most interesting is the addition of unicorn Porzingis and White, which directly reborn this team and become the most championship-looking team this season.
And Celtics' president Stevens won this season's Executive of the Year for these outstanding operations.
At present, Pelinka has been in a crisis, and if such a case occurs again in the future, then I believe that he will not be far away from the day of class.