The executives that Mark Walter and his Guggenheim Baseball Management trusted to turn around the Dodgers and make them World Series winners, Farhan Zaidi and Andrew Friedman, now have been enlisted to take on advisory roles with the Lakers, people not authorized to speak publicly confirmed to The Times on Friday.
Walter, the controlling owner of the Dodgers, purchased majority ownership of the Lakers for a $10-billion evaluation and has started the transition from the Buss family ownership by having Zaidi and Friedman become more involved. Friedman is the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations and has overseen a team that won three World Series titles in the last six years.