Lakers hiring Heat exec, filling second assistant GM role

After months of searching, the Lakers have finally secured their second assistant general manager under Rob Pelinka. The Lakers are hiring Heat vice president of player personnel Eric Amsler as an assistant general manager.Amsler is the second assistant general manager hire of the offseason after Pelinka, the Lakers president of basketball operations and general manager, said to start the offseason that the front office was being expanded.The Lakers hired Rohan Ramadas as an assistant general manager in May.“A lot of the infrastructure is being built,” Pelinka said in May.“We will continue to staff out with assistant general manager positions.

There’s a couple of those that we’re currently interviewing for and have done an extensive dive in that process.Those will be two key pillars that we’ll add for this offseason.”Amsler spent 22 years in the Heat organization, starting as an intern in 2004-05 before working his way up to various other roles: scouting and information coordinator (2005-07); scouting and player personnel coordinator (2007-14); director of scouting operations (2015-18); director of scouting/assistant director of player personnel/assistant general manager for the Sioux Falls Skyforce (2018-19) and finally director of player personnel/general manager for the Skyforce (2019-23) before being promoted to his most recent role with the Heat....