The Los Angeles Lakers' front office is perhaps as dysfunctional as it has ever been in its 72 years of history, and the hiring of president Magic Johnson and general manager Rob Pelinka made it all the more so:

“According to nearly two dozen current and former team staffers, ranging from occupants of executive suites to office cubicles, in addition to league sources and others close to the team, the Lakers under Johnson and Pelinka were fraught with dysfunction, on and off the court,” wrote ESPN's Baxter Holmes. “These sources, who feared reprisal and weren't authorized to speak publicly, describe Pelinka and Johnson as managers who made unilateral free-agent acquisitions; triggered a spate of tampering investigations and fines; berated staffers, including Walton; and created an in-house culture that many current and former longtime staffers said marginalized their colleagues, inspired fear and led to feelings of anxiety severe enough that at least two staffers suffered panic attacks.”

The hiring of two inexperienced and volatile faces for two of the most important jobs of basketball operations led to a franchise-wide disarray, one the franchise still feels the reverberations of to this day.

While Johnson willingly resigned his post before the end of the regular season, Pelinka now rules atop them all, still carrying that same approach to the front-office culture.

An ex-Lakers star privately told confidants: “It's f***ing crazy over there.”

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Johnson and Pelinka made a boatload of puzzling decisions during their roster shaping together, arming LeBron James with plenty of non-shooters, which helped doom the Lakers' playoff chances. Compounding it all, it was this same front office who irked the entire roster by a leak of a potential trade for Anthony Davis, ultimately only mustering a Mike Muscala return for a talented player in Ivica Zubac.

The tandem not only proved inept, but also ruthlessly arrogant when it came to their authority — a nightmare staffers are still trying to escape to this day.