Provided by ESPN’s Adrian Voinaroski update Today, in the Lakers coach search, no one is knocked out of their chair by name: the final candidates for the job are Darvin Ham, Bucks Assistant, Kenny Atkinson, Warriors Assistant, and Terry Stotts, who recently coached the Blazers. .. This information was secondary to Voinalowski’s main news. Juwan Howard, a male head coach at the University of Michigan, doesn’t want a Lakers coach.
The Lakers’ last two seasons were so miserable that even a fragment of the old charm wasn’t left at work. The next head coach has to put up with impatient owners, declining stars, and anything that gets in the way of his young and exciting talent.If Frank Vogel’s tenure The next head coach may not even get the courtesy of knowing when he was fired.
The committee running the coaching search also has a pretty interesting delusion about the quality of work: candidates are asked how they use it. Russell Westbrook In their system.Because it’s the Lakers Advisor Phil Jackson I really like Westbrook and believe his play can be rehabilitated, and no answer is allowed in line with the “trade him” policy. If you can’t teach the Lakers in their Russ, Jackson’s philosophy goes, you don’t deserve them in their Revlon.Athletic Sam Amic Reported last week “The point for the candidate seems to be that maximizing Westbrook’s presence after his disastrous 2021-22 season is considered an important part of this job.” Coaching candidates who can win while maximizing Westbrook’s presence will have more to do than coach the Lakers. One is to win the Fields Medal.
But the essence of Voy’s latest news is that Howard wants to coach his sons Jace and Jet in Michigan, so “recently I turned down the Los Angeles Lakers overture because of the franchise’s coaching job.”It’s always fun (boldly, consider) when basketball insiders get the word of courtship right Some basketball insiders know nothing about courtship). If you like to make games that figure out who leaked which scoop to whom, this story doesn’t pose a lot of challenges. What I’m going to talk about here is that Howard is quite involved in the recent overture decline business. That is why he is coveted.
“Boston Celtics President Brad Stevens was interested in Howard at the start of coaching a year ago, but Howard also declined the overture,” Voy wrote. I don’t think it’s perfectly accurate to say that the Lakers work isn’t worth the offer anymore. It is something you can refuse to look publicly calm.
