CHICAGO — The Los Angeles Lakers are anticipated to begin contacting teaching candidates within the coming days, with an preliminary focus on sitting assistants and ex-head coaches with whom they’ve much less familiarity, sources advised ESPN on Monday.
Lakers VP of Basketball Operations and common supervisor Rob Pelinka has been gathering info on plenty of head-coaching candidates, together with ESPN analyst JJ Redick, sources mentioned. The preliminary wave of requests for interview permission can be with these the group hasn’t met with in earlier searches, or just is aware of lower than different candidates.
In Pelinka’s conversations with officers throughout the league, the time period “grinder” retains developing within the common supervisor’s description of an essential attribute for the following coach, sources mentioned.
The preliminary interview checklist is anticipated to incorporate assistant candidates similar to Miami’s Chris Quinn and New Orleans’ James Borrego, sources mentioned.
The search is anticipated to proceed in levels with this primary wave, then a interval of speaking to coaches with whom the Lakers have extra historical past, adopted by a whittling of the checklist to a last spherical of candidates, sources mentioned.
The Lakers fired Darvin Ham after two seasons earlier this month. Ham was 90-74 total, with a visit to the Western Convention finals in his debut season adopted by a five-game sequence loss to the Denver Nuggets within the first spherical of the playoffs this yr.
