One of the few coaches held by Durbinham from the previous staff appears to be set to leave for Dallas.Assistant Quinton Crawford who served as a coach Lakers According to reports, last year’s Summer League team will join Jason Kidd and the Mavericks.
Quinton Crawford will leave the Lakers as assistant coach and join Jason Kidd’s staff in Dallas, sources said. Crawford is considered the NBA’s up-and-coming coach. He has been an assistant to the Lakers’ Frank Vogel for the past three seasons. It was the staff of the title of 2020.
— Blood Turner (@BA_Turner) June 17, 2022
Expectations in Dallas were that Greg St. Jean would move to the front of the bench next season to fill the space opened by Igor Kokoskov’s move to Brooklyn, and Crawford told the Mavericks coaching staff: Is to join @BA_Turner The following report.
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— Mark Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 18, 2022
Crawford, along with Phil Handy and John Pastrek, was one of three coaches Ham protected from Frank Vogel’s coach staff. But it seems to be reduced to only two.
So far, no other assistants have been identified for Ham’s new staff.Rasheed Wallace It was a name linked to workBut ham Pushed back the idea that he was hired At his introductory press conference. Blood Turner LA Times He also reported with Hawks assistant Chris Gent that Seed was still a candidate for a staff position.
Source: Chris Jent / Rasheed Wallace are both candidates to become assistant coaches for the Lakers’ Durvin Ham staff. Gent was an Atlanta assistant and a Cleveland assistant when LeBron James was there. Wallace and Ham were teammates on the 2004 NBA title team in Detroit.
— Blood Turner (@BA_Turner) June 18, 2022
Also, regarding seeds, in an interview with the Rich Eisen Show yesterday, Ham couldn’t say he was on staff, but gave him a less subtle wink wink, Nudge Nudge happening.
At the Rick Eisen Show yesterday, Darvin Ham seems to have more or less confirmed that Rasheed Wallace will be part of the Lakers coaching staff. pic.twitter.com/WRGLLPLELk
— Jacob Rude (@JacobRude) June 18, 2022
Meanwhile, Jent is a longtime assistant coach in the college, G League, and NBA. He had a 10-year basketball career and featured stops in multiple countries in the NBA, the now obsolete Continental Basketball Association, Australia, and Europe.
At the end of his athletic career, Gent became the first coach Sixers In 2003 he stopped in Orlando, Cleveland, Sacramento, and now the NBA’s Atlanta for two tenures. Ohio One season as an assistant and head coach of the Pistons affiliate G League Bakersfield Jam.
As is often the case, it’s hard to know the details of what the assistant coach is doing, but Jent is believed to have helped John Collins in Atlanta and his jumpers outside.
It is interesting that Gent is familiar with Lebron and seems to make him a strong candidate for the job. For now, it remains a wait-and-see approach, as Ham is trying to fill the staff during the summer training.
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