When the Los Angeles Lakers missed the play-in tournament last season and started 2-10 this season, many fans scapegoated Russell Westbrook, but executive Rob Pelinka was who some were directing even more of the blame toward.
According to these people, Pelinka had broken up the 2020 championship roster, then brought in Westbrook, who never fit in, and signed a bunch of over-the-hill role players who simply had nothing left in the tank.
