The Los Angeles Lakers are adding former New Orleans Pelicans executive Rohan Ramadas as an assistant general manager under president of basketball operations and general manager Rob Pelinka, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania on May 25, 2026.
Ramadas will handle the club’s salary-cap strategy, analytics and data operations—one of two assistant GM roles Pelinka said the organization intended to fill after its postseason exit.
The Cupertino, California, native joined the Pelicans full-time in 2024 as senior director of analytics and innovation and was promoted to vice president of basketball operations and strategy in 2025. Before that, he served the franchise for seven years as an analytics consultant and spent the 2016-17 season as a draft analyst with the Miami Heat.
Prior to his NBA tenure, Ramadas spent 12 years at The Aerospace Corporation, where he collaborated with the U.S. Space Force and NASA on rocket guidance, navigation, control and mission design. He holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in astronautical engineering from the University of Southern California.
Pelinka previously explained that the Lakers would hire two assistant general managers—one to oversee player and draft evaluation, pro scouting and player development, and another to focus on cap management, analytics and data. With Ramadas filling the strategy-oriented post, the search continues for an executive to lead the evaluation and scouting department.
Source: LakersNation.com
