How Mark Walter Plans to Modernize the Lakers, and How Rob Pelinka Might React
Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Lakers have been an antiquated franchise for years, but that's going to change going forward. |
| 0:05.7 | We'll tell you how Rob Polinka fits into a modern vision of the team. |
| 0:10.1 | That's next. |
| 0:16.1 | You are Locked on Lakers. |
| 0:18.4 | Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team |
| 0:24.8 | every day. |
| 0:27.8 | Thanks to everybody for stopping by Lockdown Lakers, Brian Komenetsky, Andy Kaminetsky, |
| 0:31.8 | plenty to uncover. |
| 0:34.4 | I was going to say, unpack from a story that came out on Wednesday from Yahoo talking |
| 0:42.3 | a lot about Andy the modernization process that the Dodgers are going through under new owner |
| 0:49.2 | Mark. |
| 0:49.7 | The Lakers are going through. |
| 0:51.1 | The Dodgers are already under Dodgers owner, now Lakers owner, Mark Walter, the Dodger for dodgerification of the Lakers, |
| 1:01.0 | if you will. |
| 1:02.0 | So we're going to break down a lot of that. |
| 1:04.0 | One of the more interesting things I think about this story is the sort of the yearly mantra, |
| 1:09.0 | Andy, of the Lakers. Every year, it's we're going to, the goal this year is to win a title. |
| 1:15.7 | I'll tell you why I think that's actually the wrong way for the Lakers to approach it |
| 1:19.8 | and why they might want to change the language. |
| 1:21.7 | But first, let's start with just this notion and the basic premise of Y whitesman's piece for Yahoo that the Lakers are essentially |
| 1:34.6 | an antiquated franchise by league standards. Doesn't mean they haven't been successful, just means |
| 1:40.5 | how they've been doing it is a little old-fashioned and it's certainly hard to argue. |
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