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Ronnie Lester's 24-year run ending

LOS ANGELES -- He was on his way to a storage unit when I called. That's the only destination in front of him that's certain at the moment.

The storage unit, then Chicago at the end of the summer. Maybe.

This hasn't been a good year so far. Already he's lost his job, gotten divorced and sold his house. The team he helped assemble underachieved and got swept out of the second round of the playoffs.

And yet the Los Angeles Lakers assistant general manager Ronnie Lester considers himself one of the lucky ones.

All day Thursday, you heard about how the NBA lockout will affect millionaire players and billionaire owners. But the real casualties of the lockout are far less wealthy and well-known.

Barring a last-minute change of heart, Lester's 24-year run with the Lakers will end when his contract expires this month.

By then, at least 20 other Lakers staffers, including almost all of the scouts who work under Lester in the basketball operations department, will have already packed their belongings and headed home.

They've been told little by the team, except employees whose contracts expire on or after June 30 would not have their contracts renewed, and their jobs may or may not open up again down the line.

"I'm not worried about myself, I'm worried about the other people on our staff that are really good and have young families and mortgages," Lester said. "I'll land on my feet, but those guys who aren't as established, I think they're in a little trouble."

Lester has worked with these men for the last three decades. He's trusted them. Last week before the NBA Draft, he had to say goodbye.

"I feel bad because they're great guys, they love the Lakers, they love working for the Lakers," Lester said. "They work really hard and they're really good at their jobs and now they're being thrown out in the cold with mortgages and kids to support, so it's not a comforting thought.

"I know from 10 years of being around those guys, they know what they're talking about and when you lose guys like that, who know your culture, how you do things, it's not going to be easy to bring someone else in here, or for whoever else is going to do the scouting, you're losing great experience with those guys."

He made me promise to publish a few of their names.

"Irving Thomas, who lives down in Miami. Adam Filippi, our European scout.

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