Woj details how serious the Lakers are with JJ Redick 👀 | SC with SVP

Woj details how serious the Lakers are with JJ Redick 👀 | SC with SVP

four teams around the NBA have secured a new head coach this off season the Wizards took the interim tag off Brian Keefe Suns hired Mike buen holer the Hornets hire Celtics assistant Charles Lea rush off a title and the Nets went with King’s assistant Jordy Fernandez that leaves the Cavaliers the Lakers and now the Pistons with head coaching vacancies with that in mind we welcome in our friend Adrien wowski and W a coach of the pedigree of Monty Williams and a job like the Lakers seems like maybe there might be interest but I wonder if maybe the timing of this throws a monkey wrench in the whole thing you tell me uh Scott if Monty Williams had been available in the marketplace to the Lakers you know when they started this search even a month ago three or four weeks ago perhaps uh he might meld into this search process Monty Williams was blindsided today uh with his dismissal which came from the owner Tom Gores who just a year ago gave him nearly an $80 million contract recruited him to take the job to move his family including his wife who had cancer his sons who were in high school to Michigan to undertake this rebuild with him I’m told that he is not ready to necessarily just jump right in to another job another process that he wants to coach again uh but I think it’s pretty raw today despite the fact that he walked away with over over $65 million uh in this he wanted to coach a team build a team and and now he’s out yeah and I I think we all believe in man will Coach again but as you point out the timing of this one uh perhaps would would eliminate the uh the possibility of him being considered by the Lakers let’s take let’s take a a little push back here and look at the Lakers because they still need a coach right and to date how we got to where we are uh in terms of who they’ve had interest in this and that to date they’ve only offered the job to one person correct that’s right Scott theyve they’ve only offered the job to Dan Hurley and then the Lakers pivoted back to JJ reck who they kind of just had what Rob pinka had with reic at the combine was kind of a 90 minute get to know you not digging real deep but just talking and then they brought him to La last weekend and he went through the more formal interview process and he is reic has talked with Rob Pena since then I know Pena has talked you know with other another candidate or two you know since reck’s interview this week but what’s really left for the Lakers and JJ reck at this point is for the Lakers to make an offer which they haven’t quite done yet well every NBA job is important but the Lakers is on on a different level right I mean they’re at the very top of the food chain here so I can appreciate their due diligence and what have you but we’re a week away from the NBA draft I imagine that that this this conversation is going to have to ramp up to a point where a formal offer is going to be made if reic is indeed going to be the guy they don’t have much time to wait do they you know yes and no Scott it’s not quite like the NFL where you have to have your coach in place for the draft where you’re going to draft players built on that coach’s system uh Detroit probably won’t have a coach by the draft but it is important it is the Lakers goal and listen they are focused in now on JJ reck JJ reck’s a different higher than Dan Hurley would have been I think JJ reck certainly knows the NBA better than Dan Hurley Dan Hurley knows how to coach a team build out a coaching staff all the things that go into head coaching uh that even at the college level translate and so I think for uh JJ reck and the Lakers what does a reic coaching staff look like all of those are certainly important elements you want to have in place you know if you’re going to bring him in but right now you know JJ reck is at the Forefront of this and again Scott really all that is left for LA to do is to offer the job to to JJ ruic that hasn’t quite happened yet and then all this left for you to do is to tweet it out so we’ll keep uh we’ll keep our eyes on social media look for that W Bob and until then W be well I appreciate your time as always thank you scottt p [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

Adrian Wojnarowski joins SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt to discuss Monty Williams getting fired from the Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Lakers’ coaching search.

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