Sources: JJ Redick Is The Next Coach Of The Los Angeles Lakers
and we’re live welcome everybody here to the Lakers Lowdown podcast I’m Anthony Irwin with some breaking news I am told as of 11:42 Central Time 9:42 uh time out there on the west coast uh according to people close to the situation who can’t speak publicly the Lakers and JJ reick uh have have uh moved on or moved move forward and and JJ reck is going to be the next coach of the Los Angeles Lakers uh details on the contract and all of that stuff is still going to come out um we’ve had an interesting morning here after last night I told you guys on the show that we would probably get an announcement this morning um a few tea leaves led me to start asking some very direct questions and the response that I’ve gotten is enough for me to to call it that JJ reck is going to be the the next coach of the Los Angeles Lake I will get into those tea leaves here in a second I will get into what what comes next I will uh get at some of the details that I have right now but uh first and foremost please do hit that subscribe button please do hit that like button please do uh tell your friends that you love the show tell your enemies that you hate it um and and heck a lot going on here but uh again the breaking news uh that you know we can all wait we could all play the ESPN game um that that that we’re going to get here shortly is that JJ reck is going to be the next coach of the Los Angeles Lakers all right so let’s start with uh the tea leaves how do we get here I woke up this morning and I never watch first take that is just not my cup of tea I just I just not not at all interested in in how they cover Sports there but I did want to watch because uh I wanted to see who was going to be on the show and I’m looking and I’m looking and I’m looking and kind of weird that the guy who called the game last night is uh you know kind of has been basically elevated to uh you know the next V voice of ESPN’s basketball in terms of analysis um kind of weird that he was not anywhere to be seen on ESPN’s Premier show in the morning right first take um it was uh Stephen A Smith it was Molly Kum it was Brian windhorse and it was Jay Williams um more on Jay Williams here in a second um I was looking I was like well that’s kind of that’s kind of odd you know you would think that if this was any other situation the guy who was on the airwaves to call the game last night would have made the short trip over to Bristol Connecticut and been in studio to talk about the scene as Boston celebrated its 18th championship in franchise history uh but he was not there JJ rck was not there so I kind of asked around like oh wonder is he in La um and I’m still waiting to get confirmation as far as you know is the inla to sign the contract or whatever but um it was certainly odd it was like that that was the first that was the first kind of red flag like oh something’s going on here and by the way this is all on top of everything that I heard that led me to say last night on the show that we were going to get an announcement today so again fast forward to this morning JJ’s not there at at at uh on ESPN’s Airwaves there’s some other kind of IND industry Scuttle butt that that would indicate that there are preparations being made uh for you know the the announcement whenever the Lakers want to leak it to W or Le leak it to Shams be kind of interesting to see who they leak it to um given the roles that those uh news Breakers have played in in all of this um but I I uh you know I again asked around a little further arrived at the conclusion that Yep this is done and it’s just about how they want to frame it and all of that stuff and look I’m independent I don’t have to play by those rules if for those of you who who have enjoyed my content and have stuck with me this is the payoff that I get to basically hop on here and tell you directly this is done however it comes out how whoever is the big account that gets to announce it and not give me credit this is done JJ reck is the guy he is going to be the next coach of the Los Angeles Lakers as far as how we arrived here in a more macro sense whether or not Dan Hurley mattered whether or not like all like how how it went this weekend um essentially at the very very beginning of this process I told you guys that what I had been told is that the uh Lakers were heading into their interview their interviews and the interview process hoping to be wowed by JJ reick and that’s what led me to write for Lakers daily that they were zeroing in on JJ reic a month ago and uh the issue there is that reck couldn’t come to an agreement while the finals were going on he didn’t want to burn that bridge with ESPN um and ESPN didn’t want to get in the way of its its partner uh the NBA celebrating whoever won the championship so JJ reck plays good soldier tells the Lakers I have to wait a little bit and and I’m told that that that didn’t exactly sit well with some people in the Lakers organization some people very high up in the organization um and in that time while they were waiting for JJ reck uh it gets back to the Lakers that Dan Hurley is not thrilled with this contract or the the extension that that uh Yukon put on the table coming off of winning back-to-back championships and um you know basically becomes more interested theoretically at least in uh working or or working with the Lakers to see what kind of agreement they could come with what the what the vision would look like right so Dan Hurley does wind up meeting with the Lakers and those meetings I was told went well the Lakers thought that the the meetings went well they came out of those meetings with with um an amount of confidence in their in chances that they could hire Dan Hurley um and Dan Hurley even went so far as to leak and his kind of team went so far as to leak the contract that he was expecting that hundred million figure and so I reached out to the people that I talked to and I asked that’s a big figure what are the chances that the Lakers would actually make that kind of an offer get up to nine figures for a head coach and I was told somewhat hesitantly yeah we think that jeie and Rob are willing to go that high so that’s why I tweeted out the Lakers are prepared to make an offer in the ballpark of a 100 million bucks eight years 100 million bucks to Dan Hurley then we come to find out that the offer that was actually made was 6 years 70 million bucks and as a lot of people have pointed out on uh you know on Twitter kind of weird that the Lakers make that offer and there apparently was no counter offer that that Dan Hurley didn’t give them the opportunity to up that offer um that certainly was interesting Hurley and his family really wanted to stay on the East Coast though I would imagine Hurley got a pretty nice new contract from from Yukon as a result of all of it and again the both sides move on and the Lakers when that when that took place when when Dan Hurley uh told them he was staying at Yukon uh circled back around to JJ reic and brought him in for what w called his first official interview that was not his first official interview uh the Lakers and and reic had been in conversations uh you know plenty throughout this process there was a bit of a lull while the Lakers were waiting for the finals to wrap up but for the most part in terms of who the Lakers talk to most in this runup to finally hiring a head coach JJ J reck was always at or top of the list in terms of candidates and in terms of people that the Lakers were talking to the most um because I think they’ve always had real interest in JJ reck so uh heading into last weekend Father’s Day weekend you get a report from Dan Wii of the LA Times saying that uh JJ reck is going to head in over the weekend for his uh for interview for an interview with the Lakers and wge uh I guess first was technically on that Wii confirmed it um and and so uh W said that that interview would provide reic the opportunity to to jump to the Forefront of of the Lakers search again the Lakers were always interested in reic that like I’m I’m to the best what I can say and I’ve been consistent on this all along the Lakers have always been very interested in reic the only time that that uh that anything changed there was the whole Hurley situation but the Lakers very quickly went back to reic and and now um I’m told it’s done that reic is now the the head coach of the Lakers so where we go next and what comes next right is well the Lakers have to help reic find an assistant coaching staff so the uh again you know big the big news that that I’m here to talk about now this is going to be a relatively short conversation uh a little bit later today when you know other bigger accounts get to run with this news I guess Harrison and I will hop on here again to talk all of this out but where the Lakers go next is certainly interesting because we’ve heard some names that the Lakers might be interested in to to help uh JJ reick and help on JJ reck staff uh at the top of that list I think the Lakers would love to hire James bgo to be uh reck’s lead assistant ad likes bgo bgo has been you know with reic is the only names I think that have been at or near the top of the list um throughout this entire process uh it appears though that reic or that bgo is going to accept the job with the Cleveland Cavaliers um according to the people that I’ve spoken to around the league um I would imagine that will be coming here soon as well but uh you know for the Lakers all right so bgo is probably off of the list I know that uh they would they’ve had interest in the past in Terry STS I think they they they they might be interested there again uh the um other coach that uh I think the Lakers would love to bring in who has been uh brought up before is Jared Dudley um Dudley was a very uh you know I I think welcomed presence in the locker room when the Lakers won that Championship um back when back in that 2019 20 2020 uh season I’m trying to Scott Brooks that’s I was blanking on it the other the other name uh Beyond Dudley um that oh by the way on I should also mention this with Dudley um when Dudley was no longer a part of the Lakers organization it LeBron James actually tweeted about Dudley uh saying you know that he’s going to miss him and all those things so I think LeBron would like to have Dudley in the fold and I think the Lakers also liked J Jared Dudley Jared Dudley has been a an impactful presence with the Dallas Mavericks who just you know got all the way to the finals and the Lakers could potentially offer him a promotion from his gig in Dallas so uh he’s another person that I I I think the Lakers would would bring in the fold here um another guy obviously um Scott Brooks uh previous head coaching experience that is going to be T you know that is going to be one of the top priorities that the Lakers um I’m told are going to be focused on is bringing in people with prior head coaching experience to help JJ reic with this that was something that they didn’t do as much with Darvin ham and I don’t think that they loved um how that played out so I do think this time with an an even more inexperienced head coach in JJ reic the Lakers would probably go out and and and bring in guys with prior head coaching experience um Terry Scot Scott Brooks also come you know those are the two names that come to mind right now um another guy I I I’ve kind of wondered about is Miles Simon uh he worked for the Lakers under Luke Walton and then also under Frank vogle miles Simon also did work with the Lakers g-league team and uh you know I’m told that relationship between Simon and the Lakers was always good always productive and you know a lot of times when you see a coach stick around for multiple head coaches um that indicates that there’s something more to that relationship between that assistant coach and the organization I think mil Simon would make a lot of sense there as well um another name that uh you know I know a lot of people are kind of asking about is Rajan Rondo we’ll see you know we’ll see uh I I I I do think that LeBron James would be very much on board with with Rajan Rondo coming back same goes for Anthony Davis um I I don’t know how interested the Lakers would be in having another person beond on the staff for their first NBA gig when the head coach is is there for his first NBA gig um there’s also some off court stuff going on with Rajan Rondo too that the Lakers may choose to stay away from um Sam Cassell is a name that I know the Lakers would love to bring in and maybe because the Lakers might save a little bit bit of money um in hiring JJ Reddit compared to Dan Hurley that they’ll be willing to you know make a big splash and go out and get a Sam casselle but Cassell is on that Celtics staff They just won a championship and uh Charles Lee was the only person I believe ahead of him on that staff Lee gets the gig in Charlotte Sam Cassell might choose to stay in Boston while they contend to potentially repeat um and and uh you know we we’ll see how how what his priorities kind of look like there but um that is all I am going to uh say on this matter right now because that is all the information that I have in front of me again to those of you who are tuning in late for one thing record setting show here record setting audience 13,000 people tuned in right now shouts to all of you please do hit that subscribe button um on YouTube and if you guys are watching on Twitter head on over to youtube.com/ Lakers Lounge I’m going to turn this around and make it an emergency low down on the uh Lakers Lounge pod feed you can find that wherever you get your podcasts and then a little bit later today again likely after we get the news from a more official um accounts or whatever uh I I I will go live with Harrison to to to break all of this down so until then and um oh well we do have a uh super comment which means I get to introduce a lot of you people to a very important [Music] clip I also um I I said that uh Jay Williams would come up again here’s the here’s the clip that basically made me ask definitively and make calls all right this is done right here’s the clip here’s Jay Williams talking about it and I feel like you have the Los Angeles Lakers that are trying to figure it out with JJ reck a first-time head coach we wish them all the best of luck with LeBron James and his Twi lot years granted they’re still there they still have a chance to contend but I mean you’re going to give the edge to Boston in a really big way stability in the front office stability on the court with your top tier players there’s a difference in franchises here Championship I loved um I loved everybody’s face while Jay is saying that everybody’s like I don’t think we’re supposed to talk about this right now but so between JJ not being on any of those shows in the morning and and then that clip I I asked around and I was like hey this is done right and I was told by um multiple people who I trust uh enough to be able to call it now that JJ reic is the next head coach of the Lakers but shouts to Jay Williams for kind of ruining R ruining the secret um but again like I said I’m going to be going live here uh later this afternoon after I get back from my haircut I’m pretty bushy right now uh Harrison and I will be live to talk about all of this and um yeah until then have a great rest of your day make somebody else’s and I’ll will talk to you in probably a few hours have a good one everybody
Anthony said in last night’s show today would likely be the day. He’s heard enough from people close to the situation. JJ Redick will be names the next coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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32 Comments
As a Lakers fan, I need to be optimistic. Go #LakeShow!
Way to go anthony! First to break the report. Lakers Daily 💜💛
Jason Williams spilled the beans 😆 🤣 😂
Get SVG!!!! Lead assistant!
At this point it doesn’t really matter….they tried the hot assistant…tried the hot college guy….no go…may as well try this
Maaaan I've fell for the breaking news thing bout a week ago
Don’t tell Woj nothing!!
Let Hurley make 20 million ….hope UConn misses the tournament
Dan Hurley can coach the hornets
Doesn’t wash….he had an interview before the finals were over….he was the only one left standing and it’s better than the same old guys and better than cassell who is just like ham with no experience
Anthony hope you right here. Be embarrassing
For assistant how about Nate McMillan and Lionel Hollins or Larry drew
Booooooooo
Imagine announcing the hire once the Celtics parade starts 🤣
Man hopefully you are not wronh because if you are your credibility will be shit
Jason Williams ? Really?
I hope this becomes a disaster
He doesn’t have any special sources he’s just saying what everyone has been reporting for a month
So this pathetic hiring is all about The Fucking Mercenary Bron James
Anthony I'm glad you got rid of your Hurley gear
More concerning people are leaking this without an official word from Lakers/Woj/Shams. Seems like it’ll fall through soon enough
This guy talks a big game
O'Neill > Hurley
You have no sources lmao
Dude it was the 1st official meeting that was not just him and Rob smh
Oh great. How "exciting" JJ Reddick meh 😑
JJ Pathetic
6 yrs 100 mil would've got it done with Dan.
Everything half ass under Jeanie.
Besides the lucky championship in Disneyland.
Under Jeanie, the lakers have been a shit show.
Source: Trust me bro
JJ hasn't been on first take in a while. Plus the Jay Williams sound bite was from Espn' Get Up, not First Take
Jj and Stan van gundy
It’s sad that the Lakers still have to cater to a 40 year old star way past his prime. It don’t matter who the coach is, the Lakers are not winning a ring with Lebron James anytime soon.