Lakers announce hiring of Rohan Ramadas as assistant GM

The Lakers have officially added another front-office piece under president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka. The team announced Tuesday that former Pelicans executive Rohan Ramadas has been hired as assistant general manager of strategy and data systems. According to the Lakers, Ramadas will oversee basketball analytics and strategic initiatives within basketball operations. “Rohan is an important and strong addition to our front office as we further build out our basketball operations resources,” Pelinka said in a statement. “His unique blend of career experiences and analytical expertise will further strengthen the strong work already taking place internally within our data analytics...