The longtime former player launched a podcast with Lakers star LeBron James in March.
The Los Angeles Lakers have agreed to hire former NBA player JJ Redick as their next coach despite his lack of previous experience. LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers agreed to hire former NBA player JJ Redick to be their next head coach, two people familiar with the situation confirmed Thursday, finally filling the vacancy created by, who turned down a $70 million offer this month and remained at the University of Connecticut.
By accepting the league’s highest-profile coaching job, Redick will face constant championship expectations while managing the final chapter of James’s Hall of Fame career. Scrutiny is nothing new for Redick, a high school all-American shooting guard who became a household name during his four seasons at Duke from 2002 to 2006.
In addition to that instability, Redick must manage the perception that he wasn’t the Lakers’ first choice and create a healthy distance between himself and James. Udonis Haslem, a former teammate of James’s on the Miami Heat,would be met with a “cynical locker room of guys that are going to side-eye everything JJ says” given his working relationship with the Lakers’ star.
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