In this week’s mailbag, we look at a number of questions regarding the Lakers coaching search, including whether the team should be looking at Becky Hammon.
According to NBA insider Sam Amick of The Athletic, Anthony Davis played a big role in the Los Angeles Lakers firing Darvin Ham. Davis “was not on board”
It’s been a couple of weeks since the Los Angeles Lakers were eliminated from the 2024 NBA Playoffs, but the franchise hasn’t had time to rest as they embark on yet another head coaching search.
After being eliminated by the reigning champion Denver Nuggets in the first round, the Los Angeles Lakers had to evaluate every aspect of the team going into this summer.
The Los Angeles Lakers’ first move in the offseason is to figure out who their next head coach will be. Despite consecutive playoff appearances, former head coach Darvin Ham was let go of his duties and the Lakers have since begun their search for his replacement.
Due to an early playoff exit, the Los Angeles Lakers chose to let Darvin Ham go recently. And while JJ Redick is the most popular choice to end up as head coach, the possibility of Sam Cassell ending up as the winner is gaining traction lately.
Lonzo Ball got real about the Los Angeles Lakers' tepid end to the season, losing 4-1 in the first round to the Denver Nuggets. The loss led to the Lakers firing Darvin Ham, as the coach was held responsible for his tactical shortcomings.
Following their first-round playoff exit to the Denver Nuggets, the Los Angeles Lakers fired head coach Darvin Ham after two seasons. Now, all eyes are on who Ham’s successor could be.
Lakers have been on the hunt recently trying to find a replacement head coach. News broke a few weeks ago that they let Coach Darvin Ham go. Coach Ham had been coaching the Los Angeles Lakers for two seasons.
The first important offseason task for the Los Angeles Lakers this offseason is finding a new head coach who can get them back into championship contention.
After two seasons, the Los Angeles Lakers chose to part ways with head coach Darvin Ham. The team came into this season with championship aspirations but fell far short, losing to the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, the second consecutive year the Lakers came up short to Denver.
The Los Angeles Lakers are one of the few teams in the NBA with a vacant head coaching position after they fired Darvin Ham. Ham’s future in Los Angeles was essentially sealed once he failed to get the team past the Denver Nuggets for the second consecutive year.
The Lakers fired Ham after he failed to guide them out of the opening round of this season's playoffs.
After a relatively successful two-year run with the Los Angeles Lakers, the club's now-ex-head coach Darvin Ham once again finds himself a free agent. There are two non-Lakers head coaching openings as of this writing, for the lottery-bound Charlotte Hornets and Washington Wizards.
The Los Angeles Lakers fired former head coach Darvin Ham following the Lakers' 4-1 series loss to the Denver Nuggets during Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs.
Lakers executives felt there were significant issues with the team under Darvin Ham this season, which is why the head coach was fired earlier this week.
The Los Angeles Lakers are really cleaning house even beyond the firing of head coach Darvin Ham.
The writing had been on the wall over the last few days, but the Los Angeles Lakers finally made it official on Friday when they fired head coach Darvin Ham.
It would appear that Ham has admirers around the league.
Darvin Ham is out of L.A. after just two years on the bench.
Darvin Ham's future with the Lakers is now clear.
The Los Angeles Lakers have done the expected and fired head coach Darvin Ham after two seasons, the team announced. A search for a new coach is expected to begin immediately.
Darvin Ham is likely to be fired by the Los Angeles Lakers, and one insider provided a potential timeline for that expected outcome.
It has been an up-and-down two seasons for Darvin Ham as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, to say the least. There have been some rough stretches, but also some great successes.
The bottom line is this: The Lakers feel Ham needed to make the most of what he had, and that he wasn’t doing that.
Darvin Ham‘s position with the Lakers is reportedly in “serious peril” following the team’s elimination from the playoffs on Monday.
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