BONUS SEGMENT: Lakers Prepare to Build with Mark Walter. What's Rob Pelinka's Future?

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🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Lakers have long been a lean, mom and pop organization, despite the incredible weath represented by the franchise, and its ability to produce tremendous revenue. That's why Lakers fans were so excited when Dodgers owner Mark Walter bought the team. The feeling was that finally the Lakers would have the type of infrastructure their brand and wealth would seem to support. And over the weekend, head of basketball ops Rob Pelinka talked about changes that are coming reasonably soon -- making a point to note that he and Jeanie Buss will be leading that process. The Lakers will be using the Dodgers model to build up areas where they'd been lean to this point. "When Mark bought the team, Jeanie and I did a really deep dive with him on sort of the areas he wants to grow and move into and get aggressive," Pelinka told the assembled media. "Looking at the Dodgers and how they built it out has been a great sort of example and North Star. And so we're still going through that process of how we'll look in the offseason and what additions we'll make. But there will be some positive changes, and we will build things out." So what will this look like, and will Rob really be in charge? HOSTS: Andy and Brian Kamenetzky Everydayer Club If you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everydayerclub Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Turbo TaxFor a limited time, you can have your taxes done by a local TurboTax expert for just $150 — all in, if a TurboTax expert didn’t file for you last year. Just file by February 28. Take taxes off your plate and get back to your life. Visit https://TurboTax.com/local to book your appointment today. ZocDocStop putting off those doctor appointments and go to https://Zocdoc.com/LOCKEDONNBA to find and instantly book a doctor you love today. WayfairGet last-minute hosting essentials, gifts for all your loved ones, and decor to celebrate the holidays for WAY less.Head to https://Wayfair.com right now to shop all things home. Wayfair. Every style. Every home. 5-Hour ENERGYHave your cake & drink it too. Birthday cake-flavor is back, no fork needed. Vanilla-y cakey flavor, caffeinated kick, and no sugar. It's party time. Order Now at 5-hourENERGY.com or Amazon. PrizePicksDownload the PrizePicks app today and use codeLOCKEDONNFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup.Click Here: https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/LOCKEDONNBA IndeedListeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast GametimeToday's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONfor $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply. FanDuelToday’s episode is sponsored by FanDuel. The Winter Games are on. And there’s no better way to follow them than with a bet on FanDuel. FanDuel - Play your game. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

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0:00.0	The Lakers plan to model their franchise on the Dodgers, and that has fans excited.
0:06.0	But there is one element of the plan that fans don't necessarily love, and we'll tell you what that is next.
0:18.1	You are Locked-on Lakers, your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcasts network, your team
0:26.8	every day.
0:30.1	Thanks, everybody for making Locked on Lakers.
0:32.1	First listen to every day, Monday, through Friday, sometimes on weekends, even on holidays.
0:35.6	And now, as you'll start seeing multiple times a day, no matter how you're doing it, whether through Apple, through Spotify, maybe you're one of the 37,000 plus subscribers, two Lockdown Lakers on YouTube. No matter how you're doing it, you're helping make the Lockdown Podcast Network, the number one sports podcast network in this or any other known universe.
0:57.5	Andy and I, the Kaminetsky brothers, I'm Brian. He's Andy.
1:03.1	One of the things we're going to be doing going forward is providing in addition to the show, the five days a week, plus sometimes on weekends, even on holidays, that you are
1:09.1	used to receiving. We're going to be expanding the content, doing short
1:14.6	shows like we often do on weekends after games or live mailbags and things like that. So more
1:20.1	opportunities to engage with the show, more opportunities to talk Lakers, listen to the Lakers,
1:29.4	and take in Lakers content.
1:32.3	So that's what we're going to be doing, and that's why we're here now.
1:37.3	One thing we haven't had a chance to talk about, Andy, and it happened over the weekend, was really the first overt talk from Lakers management about using the Dodgers as a template for improving the
1:55.8	architecture and infrastructure of the Lakers.
2:00.0	Rob Polinka got into it in a reasonable amount of detail over the weekend talking to
2:04.6	the media post-trade deadline.
2:06.4	And it was interesting to hear him kind of talk about, talk through the whole thing.
2:12.5	Yeah, some of the comments that Rob said, quote,
2:14.5	it's been great to have sort of outside allies and advocates looking at the Dodgers and the success they've had and what they've built over there and being able to tap into a person like Andrew Friedman for those who don't follow Dodgers.
2:27.5	He makes, he's the general manager makes all of the basketball decisions.
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