The Lakers quickly cut the "head bag" Ham after being eliminated in the first round, and the summer coach selection drama that has been staged in the past few years has started again. However, Buden has taken office with the Suns, and the Lakers' range of options has been greatly reduced, and more and more sources point out that the Lakers may want to choose Redick, a newcomer, and the Buss family who picked the door want to fool around for another year?
Good horses don't eat back grass
Renowned journalist Shams Charania said on the TV show: "Vogel is not in the Lakers' selection range, Kenny Atkinson, JJ Redick, David Adelman, James Borrego are the interview candidates. Although Vogel led the Lakers to championship championships for 20 years, his mediocrity on the offensive end made the team lose interest in him.
Vogel's unhappy Lakers career with James
Lakers Fan Coach Survey: Redick leads the leaderboard
Lakers information website Silver Screen and Roll has released a survey of Lakers head coach candidates they previously conducted on the site users and Lakers fans. Here are the results:
Buden is gone, and Reddick is the highest
Originally, Buden topped the list with 36%, but because he went to the Suns, now Redick's 33% fan support is clearly ahead of the rest of the candidates, indicating that local Lakers fans have guessed who the management's choice is most likely to be.
The Lakers had multiple phone calls with Redick
The ESPN reporter revealed: "Our ESPN colleague JJ Reddick. He's certainly an intriguing pick for the Lakers, and they've had a number of phone calls trying to find out more about him. ”
Reddick who works at ESPN
James' business partner
In March, LeBron James and former NBA player JJ Redick co-founded Mind the Game, a podcast on basketball. Back in December last year, James and Redick communicated repeatedly about this idea, and they soon came together.
I've always been interested in his mind, including his love of the game
Redick's years of experience as a commentator at ESPN have made him a better media partner for James, and James says there is no better fit than Redick. Good communication skills with James may be a plus for him to compete for Lakers head coach.
Zero coaching career
In 2023, Redick interviewed for the position of the new head coach of the Raptors, and Redick was one of the candidates for the first round of interviews for the position of the new head coach of the Raptors. On April 23, 2024, JJ Redick interviewed for the position of new head coach of the Hornets.
Two interviews were unsuccessful, and Redick's coaching career has so far been zero.
Once bitten by a snake for ten years, I was afraid of the well rope
In recent years, the team has fired more and more coaches, although Vogel has just been swept away by the Suns, but because of his five-year 31 million contract last year, it is guaranteed that even if he loses his job, he will still have no worries about food and clothing.
In the 2011-12 season, the Lakers hired Mike Brown, but after playing five games in the 2012-13 season, the Lakers fired Brown. The Lakers then hired Mike D'Antoni, but D'Antoni didn't coach for long, leaving after the 2013-14 season, and the Lakers hired Byron Scott in the 2014-15 season.
Throughout the 2014-15 season, the Lakers paid three coaches, with Brown taking $3.5 million, D'Antoni taking $4 million and Scott taking $4.25 million, for a total of $10.75 million. This lesson led the Lakers to look for a newcomer like WhartonHam.
Bread Coach
summary
Although the team is located in Los Angeles, the Bass family can only be regarded as a small role among the many wealthy people in the NBA, and the team is their biggest business, so the operation is extraordinarily picky, and the lessons of the first ten years have made them more and more demanding in the selection of head coaches. A rookie coach like Redick has a low salary and a small contract period, so it's the truth that he doesn't feel distressed when fired.