The Los Angeles Lakers team and management have already started making efforts to get things right. They know getting a correct coach for the team is really crucial, and they went through weeks of interviews and deliberations to get a suitable candidate for the head coach position.
Last week The Athletic’s Shams Charania revealed the Lakers management had narrowed down the list of head coach candidates to three. However, Kevin Garnett, who wasn’t impressed with the list of candidates, took a dig at ‘The Purple and Gold’ through his Instagram story.
“Man are the lakers serious? They are not serious about trying to better the situation with the list of coaches.”
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Kevin Garnett on the Lakers HC search via his Instagram story:
Safe to say he’s not a fan of the candidates. pic.twitter.com/JHBVy8wLjv
— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) May 23, 2022
The NBA Hall of Famer believes that these possible candidates are not good enough and would fail to improve the team’s case.
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LA Lakers had an unexpectedly poor performance this year. Hence, they parted ways with their head coach, Frank Vogel, as they believed that his decisions put them in that position.
How good are potential candidates for the Los Angeles Lakers?
While Kevin Garnett might not be that impressed, the rumored candidates’ list released by Shams Charania surely holds some credibility. Both Terry Stotts and Kevin Atkinson have past experience in handling head coach positions.
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Sources: Finalists for the Los Angeles Lakers head coaching job: Bucks assistant Darvin Ham, Warriors assistant Kenny Atkinson and former Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts. Next stage of interviews are expected to take place in-person in Los Angeles.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 20, 2022
Stotts was the head coach for the Trail Blazers from 2012 to 2021, with a season-winning percentage of .558. Kevin Atkinson also served as the Nets’ head coach from 2016 to 2020 with a season-winning percentage of .383. Darvin Ham worked with the Los Angeles Lakers from 2011 to 2013 and then worked as an assistant coach with Atlanta Hawks from 2013 to 2018.
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The next round of interviews is rumored to be conducted in person in Los Angeles. It would be fun to see who finally gets the position and what new changes he brings in. Would Kevin Garnett be proven right or would management find someone better than Frank Vogel? We will get answers to these questions over the course of the offseason and throughout the 2022/23 NBA season.
