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 Present right now.
“I’m instructed that final week the Lakers met with JJ Redick for an prolonged time period,” Shams mentioned. “He was the primary individual to do a face-to-face assembly and my sense is that he’s the frontrunner for this job.”
“I’m instructed that final week the Lakers met with JJ Redick for an prolonged time period..
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) Could 24, 2024
This follows ESPN’s Brian Windhorst claiming Lakers employees have been locked into Redick’s podcast with LeBron James, and that they might “see the connection” between the 2 of them.
Redick mentioned earlier this month that teaching did enchantment to him and that he missed being in a aggressive NBA surroundings.
“What I actually miss is the juice, I miss the motion, I miss the competitors, I miss management, I miss being on a crew,” Redick mentioned on Highway Trippin‘. “Like in a locker room, like bodily in a locker room after successful a highway sport. Such as you miss that stuff. There’s 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 fees, taking a cost, or dunking a basketball.
“These are all these little moments of precise sport play, it’s the opposite moments that I really feel like all of us miss as ex-athletes proper. The half about teaching basically, it’s a really basic assertion, is just like the issues that I miss and the issues that I like doing. That includes teaching, that each one is a part of teaching.”
Redick doesn’t have any NBA teaching expertise, though that will not matter if the Lakers’ precedence is appeasing LeBron, who can go away LA in free company this summer season.
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