You’ll have to excuse the liberal use of anonymous sourcing here as the Lakers have not allowed anyone who works for them to speak on the subject so far. With one minor exception, no member of the Lakers’ front office or ownership has given an interview since Johnson stepped down. (Instead the players were asked to answer for them in their exit interviews on April 10.) The exception is that Pelinka spoke at the draft lottery, but when I asked him about the coaching search, he declined to answer and said he would only speak about the lottery.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 16, 2019 18:22 UTC