The Los Angeles Lakers have the hottest scout in NBA history.  Her name is Bonnie-Jill Laflin and she looks a lot more like Eva Mendes than a beer-belly, graying NBA scout.  She models, acts, scouts and manages the Lakers developmental team.

Bonnie-Jill Laflin is a scout for the Los Angeles Lakers, a perplexing assignment for a drop-dead gorgeous woman of 32 who played high school ball, then spent the next decade as an NFL cheerleader, a model, an actress, and a sports broadcaster.

She landed in the Lakers’ front office performing various TV duties for the team, as well as for ESPN, until Lakers owner Jerry Buss promoted her to scout two years ago, just before the NBA’s predraft camp, and also named her assistant GM of the Lakers’ Developmental League team, the D-Fenders. Buss, it seems, wanted to do something different and sent Laflin out to scout college players. A stunner.

She got the job because she has an intense amount of basketball knowledge that transcends sex right?  Well not so fast.

She admits she got the job because Buss is a family friend, for whom her father once acted as bodyguard. But she also insists this is what she always wanted to do – manage a team – and that given the choice, she would take managing the Lakers over the lead role in a feature film without thinking twice.

You have to give the Lakers credit for having a casting call to help decide who scouts for them.

Bonnie is a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.  She has also appeared on Baywatch, Ally McBeal and been a model on Deal or No Deal.