The Lakers’ pursuit of JJ Redick as their subsequent head coach seems to be heating up, with Shams dropping a recent replace throughout an look on The Pat McAfee Show in the present day.
“I’m told that last week the Lakers met with JJ Redick for an extended period of time,” Shams said. “He was the first person to do a face-to-face meeting and my sense is that he’s the frontrunner for this job.”
“I’m informed that final week the Lakers met with JJ Redick for an prolonged interval of time..
He was the primary individual to do a head to head assembly and my sense is that he’s the frontrunner for this job” ~ @ShamsCharania #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/leqeBn0mCk
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) May 24, 2024
This follows ESPN’s Brian Windhorst claiming Lakers workers had been locked into Redick’s podcast with LeBron James, and that they might “see the connection” between the 2 of them.
Redick stated earlier this month that teaching did enchantment to him and that he missed being in a aggressive NBA setting.
“What I really miss is the juice, I miss the action, I miss the competition, I miss leadership, I miss being on a team,” Redick stated on Road Trippin‘. “Like in a locker room, like bodily in a locker room after successful a street recreation. Like you miss that stuff. There is a excessive that you simply get as an athlete that goes past passing, and capturing, and dribbling, and, nicely Richard (Jefferson) by no means took costs, taking a cost, or dunking a basketball.
“Those are all these little moments of actual game play, it’s the other moments that I feel like we all miss as ex-athletes right. The part about coaching in general, it’s a very general statement, is like the things that I miss and the things that I love doing. That involves coaching, that all is part of coaching.”
Redick doesn’t have any NBA teaching expertise, though that won’t matter if the Lakers’ precedence is appeasing LeBron, who can go away LA in free company this summer time.
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