Tim Harris to Leave Lakers
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Lakers President of Business Operations Tim Harris will reportedly resign his position and will no longer be with the team after this season. Pete and Darius react to the news, offer insight into Harris’ influence within the organization, and discuss why this is an opportunity for the Lakers to take a step forward under Mark Walter’s new ownership.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.0 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.0 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.0 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:10.0 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.0 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. |
| 0:24.2 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. |
| 0:28.9 | And a great day it is for Laker fans, even if many may not know it. As Tim Harris emailed the Lakers |
| 0:34.6 | staff yesterday to inform them that this will be his final |
| 0:37.8 | season with the Lakers. |
| 0:39.7 | This is the second major domino to fall in the Mark Walter era. |
| 0:44.0 | To me, it's the bigger of the two. |
| 0:45.9 | Earlier Jesse and Joey Bus were let go. |
| 0:48.3 | Tim Harris is higher up in the hierarchy of the Lakers. |
| 0:52.2 | He was the alternate governor for the Lakers. So if Jeannie |
| 0:55.0 | couldn't make official league business, he was the person that would step in. He was the number |
| 0:59.6 | two person at the company. Rob Plankett is very much the face of the on-court basketball team. |
| 1:05.7 | But Tim Harris was in charge of the Lakers and what the Lakers are and has been for a very, very long time. |
| 1:12.8 | And to succinctly summarize why I'm so excited about it, frankly, across sports and politics |
| 1:19.5 | and all sorts of aspects of life, there's a common thread of people who are on the older |
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