Lakers hire 'literal rocket scientist' to be assistant general manager
The Los Angeles Lakers have hired Rohan Ramadas as their new assistant general manager. Ramadas, who previously worked for the New Orleans Pelicans, is noted for his background in aerospace engineering. His role will focus on salary cap management, analytics, and data within the Lakers' revamped front office.
- ▪Rohan Ramadas has been hired as the assistant general manager for the Los Angeles Lakers.
- ▪He previously served as the vice president of basketball operations and strategy for the New Orleans Pelicans.
- ▪Ramadas is recognized for his expertise in analytics and data, having implemented AI during his time with the Pelicans.
Yahoo Sports files mainly under sports. We currently carry 16,505 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Yahoo Sports |
| Canonical URL | https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/lakers-hire-literal-rocket-scientist-021557174.html |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 02:15:57 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T02:37:42.281Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T02:37:42.281Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 9ceaeCUCH9lC · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","mainEntityOfPage":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/lakers-hire-literal-rocket-scientist-021557174.html","headline":"Lakers hire 'literal rocket scientist' to be assistant general manager","datePublished":"2026-05-26T02:15:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-26T02:15:57.000Z","keywords":["Los Angeles Lakers","front office","Mark Walter","Dave McMenamin","Shams Charania","basketball operations","ESPN","Rohan Ramadas","New Orleans Pelicans","New Orleans"],"description":"The Lakers have made an interesting hire to fill an assistant general manager role.","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Yahoo…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Yahoo Sports.