For the Los Angeles Lakers, the season's bumpy season is finally over, and they will usher in a nearly six-month offseason, during which james and thick eyebrows can recuperate well. For the Lakers management, their task of reinforcing this summer is heavy and long, and the coaching staff to the players need to usher in a major change of blood.
Today's official announcement from the Lakers, the team has officially fired the team's head coach Vogel. Pelinka also called it a difficult choice, but had to choose to do so for the sake of the overall interests of the team. Such a result is not surprising, after all, the Lakers' record this season is bad, and Vogel also has a certain relationship, and the NBA head coach is also the most likely to "carry the pot" people.
Vogel became the first Lakers to leave the team this summer. So far Vogel has coached the Lakers for three seasons, the first two seasons have led the team to the playoffs, and in 2019 led the team to win the championship, but this season's Lakers record plummeted, and finally missed the playoffs, Vogel's employment also showed a great drawback.
The current Lakers have officially started the coaching work, and Pelinka said that this job is very important, the team will not rush to achieve, but will compete for the final personnel within two months. In the current lakers head coach candidate list, Rivers, Snyder, Juwan Howard, Clifford, Stotts and others are among them.
But things didn't go so smoothly, according to reporter Brad Turner, two people chose to withdraw from the Lakers' competition for the handsome position today. First up is Snyder, who not only has a contract with the Jazz for at least one season, but people who aren't authorized to speak publicly about it say he's become less interested in the Lakers' job because of the way Vogel's sacking is handled.
The other person is Zhu Wang Howard, who prefers to stay at the University of Michigan to coach his two sons and witness the growth of his two sons rather than coaching the Lakers.
In addition, from the reporter Woj's report, when the Lakers select the coach this time, they must not only consider the new manager, but also consider the new assistant coach team that the new coach may bring. When Vogel joined the Lakers, he was not qualified to make any demands on the Lakers, and Monty and Tyrone Lue at the time directly refused the job.