The blame needs to be shared by those, whether in the front office or behind the scenes, who made the decisions that led to the Lakers’ first-round flameout
Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka, left, and head coach Darvin Ham speak before a game against the Golden State Warriors on April 9, 2024, at Crypto.com Arena. Darvin Ham was the definition of Fired Coach Walking for weeks, as it turns out. Even 47 regular-season victories, good enough only for the play-in round in a rugged Western Conference, weren’t enough to save a second-year coach from the expectations of a legacy franchise and its entitled fan base.
Pelinka, who had been a player agent before he was hired as Lakers general manager in 2017, inherited Luke Walton as his coach, fired him after three seasons and hired Frank Vogel in 2019, fired Vogel – who had delivered the team’s 17th championship in the 2020 COVID bubble – in 2022 after three seasons, and now has axed Ham after two.
Make no mistake. LeBron is seldom shy about using his leverage. The hourglass emoji he posted on social media after a midseason loss to Atlanta dropped the Lakers to 25-25 was a passive-aggressive reminder that time was slipping away. e have stretches where we just don’t know what we’re doing on both ends of the floor” … those also fed the portrayal of a team in disarray or at least one that had stopped paying attention to or trusting their head coach.
There’s an adage – I believe Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban came up with it – that fits this situation: If you’re going to fire someone, you’d better have a replacement in place, or at least in mind.One popular notion among the fan base seems to be trying to steal Ty Lue from the Clippers, and never mind that the Lakers had their shot at Lue before hiring Vogel in 2019, but those talks broke downHis main qualification, beyond 15 seasons as a player? He does a podcast with LeBron. Seriously.
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