Alexander: Lakers’ Rob Pelinka has the last laugh

If Rob Pelinka were so inclined, he could have used the occasion Sunday night to have a hearty laugh at our expense.
Go back nearly 17 months, to the day that Frank Vogel was introduced as the Lakers’ head coach. That morning, Magic Johnson – who had left his VP of basketball operations position a month earlier, hinting of difficulties working with General Manager Pelinka – came out with both barrels blasting on an ESPN talk show, reinforcing the narratives that Pelinka was bac