Lakers’ Rob Pelinka proved he was not in over his head this offseason

As NBA free agency begins Sunday, it might be time to acknowledge the Lakers' front office is not as inept as many thought, writes columnist ArashMarkazi.

The issue for the Lakers from the start was that the New Orleans Pelicans had no intention of keeping the Lakers’ No. 4 pick. They had planned to trade it, which they ended up doing in a draft night deal with the Atlanta Hawks. So it was never really up to New Orleans to delay the trade 30 days, and there was no reason for the Hawks to delay the trade in order to help the Lakers secure maximum free agent money.

Before the perceived salary cap gaffe, there was the much publicized coaching search blunder in which the Lakers missed out on Monty Williams and Tyronn Lue before settling on Frank Vogel.

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