{"id":2136458,"date":"2026-09-09T20:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2136458"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:30:19","slug":"lakers-hire-eric-amsler-from-miami-heat-as-assistant-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2136458","title":{"rendered":"Lakers hire Eric Amsler from Miami Heat as assistant general manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>The Los Angeles Lakers have hired Miami Heat executive Eric Amsler as an assistant general manager, sources with knowledge of the matter told <em>The Athletic<\/em>. The Lakers did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Amsler has an extensive history in basketball scouting, having worked for the Heat since 2004 in several personnel roles. Most recently, he served as the team\u2019s vice president of player personnel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper article-treatment\">\n<div class=\"ad-slug-container\">\n<p class=\"ad-slug\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mid1\" data-position=\"mid1\" class=\"ad place-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He\u2019s the second major hire by Rob Pelinka this summer, fulfilling his promise to bolster the team\u2019s front-office operations. The Lakers previously hired former Pelicans executive Rohan Ramadas to be an assistant general manager focused on strategy and analytics.<\/p>\n<div data-ath-video-stream=\"88cbUtgKURO09HI\">\n<div class=\"VideoHost_Root__QeM_i\">\n<div class=\"VideoHost_VideoWidth__XjNKI VideoHost_Portrait__XBaJC\">\n<div class=\"VideoTitleFrame_Root__AGckL\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"VideoTitleFrame_Title__npf3B\">Everything we know about the Lakers being sold again<\/div>\n<div class=\"VideoTitleFrame_Authors__jxyYV\">Dan Woike<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"VideoTitleFrame_VideoWrapper__Xgp47\">\n<div class=\"AspectRatioBox_root__AKv5b\" style=\"aspect-ratio:9 \/ 16;max-height:min(100%)\">\n<div class=\"AspectRatioBox_inner__86C_2\" style=\"aspect-ratio:9 \/ 16\">\n<div class=\"VideoStreamPlayer_GridStack__2H0p2\"><video preload=\"metadata\"><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the infrastructure is being built. I\u2019ll be headed to the combine. We will continue to staff out with assistant general manager positions,\u201d Pelinka said at the end of last season. \u201cThere\u2019s a couple of those that we\u2019re currently interviewing for and have done an extensive dive in that process. Those will be two key pillars that we\u2019ll add for this offseason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hire comes as the Lakers navigate the transition from Mark Walter\u2019s tenure to a new ownership led by Josh Kushner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers have hired Miami Heat executive Eric Amsler as an assistant general manager, sources with knowledge of the matter told The Athletic. The Lakers did not immediately return requests for comment. Amsler has an extensive history in basketball scouting, having worked for the Heat since 2004 in several personnel roles. Most recently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-2136458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2136458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2136458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2136458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2136458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}