The Purple and Gold's extended head coaching search is costing them some talented options.
The Los Angeles Lakers have lost out on yet another top-tier assistant coach — this one a former Lakers player, to boot.
After letting rumored prospect Charles Lee sign on with the Charlotte Hornets as their new head coach, L.A. has now potentially lost out on another elite assistant coach who may have been ready for a promotion.announced Wednesday that former two-time All-Star swingman Caron Butler, who was briefly a Laker from 2004-05 after being acquired in the deal that sent Shaquille O'Neal to the Miami Heat, has inked a new four-season deal to stay with the Heat, according to his lawyer Raymond Brothers.
Butler, who was drafted by the Heat in 2002 with the No. 10 pick out of the University of Connecticut and played in South Beach for two seasons, has been a critical contributor to the bench of a club that has made two Eastern Conference Finals and one NBA Finals berth. Though the Heat has received occasional derision for its emphasis on a unique "culture" of winning, toughness and accountability, there really has seemed to be something to that notion. Miami has enjoyed unique success under Spoelstra and before him Pat Riley and Stan Van Gundy, spanning a variety of basketball eras and superstars.
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