Less than a month after the NBA approved Mark Walter as the Lakers’ new majority owner , the longtime Dodgers chief has begun to reshape the franchise with the precision of someone who has rebuilt dynasties before .

And on Friday morning, that transformation took a striking new step. Two of the sharpest minds in Major League Baseball—Farhan Zaidi and Andrew Friedman—are now stepping into advisory roles with the Lakers’ front office.

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For a franchise built on legacy, it felt like watching an era turn over like a page in an old, well-worn playbook.

Zaidi, known across baseball as an architect of analytics and competitive recalibration, arrives as more than a consultant. He becomes Walter’s voice inside the organiz

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