Pelinka was still the General Manager. They were working together. We gonna blame Magic for Caruso, KCP etc too? They were both trash at their jobs
This is what Magic said about the situation with Rob
According to Johnson, Pelinka began smearing his name behind the scenes for not being at Lakers facilities enough:
"Things got going in the right direction, and then I start hearing, you know, 'Magic, you're not working hard enough. Magic's not in the office.' So people around the Laker office was telling me Rob was saying things—Rob Pelinka—and I didn't like those things being said behind my back, that I wasn't in office enough and so on and on. So I start getting calls from my friends outside of basketball saying those things now were said to them outside of basketball. Now not just in the Laker office anymore, now it's in the media and so on. ... And people gotta remember something, being in this business for over 40 years, I got allies, I got friends everywhere."