🚨 BREAKING 🚨 JJ Redick to be the Lakers’ next head coach 😱 | NBA Today

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 JJ Redick to be the Lakers’ next head coach 😱 | NBA Today

ESPN sources JJ reick has signed on a 4-year contract to become the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers Rob palinka offered the job this morning and reic started working on a staff to surround himself with experience so that breaking news of course we know the relationship that JJ has with LeBron of course LeBron James not at all a part of the head coaching process hiring process necessarily uh but perk what is your reaction to the fact that JJ is now officially the Los Angeles Lakers next head coach you you know what I’m not mad at it anytime a former player right could uh get an opportunity to be in that position and be a head coach I’m I’m all in for it right we know that JJ reick is a is a brilliant basketball mind uh we know he knows the game in and out the X’s and O’s uh again I’m GNA go back to what I I said before the only thing when it comes down to JJ reick is is he’s going to is he is he going to be able to speak the language in that locker room right we look at the NBA finals and who did we see coaching coaching in the NBA Finals we saw a Jason kid and we saw a 35y old Joe Missoula and the one thing that I’ve been hearing and seeing is how jayen Brown Jason Tatum and all these guys on the Celtics talk about how uh they relate to Joe Missoula and how he’s affected their lives outside of basketball it’s more the ex’s and olds when it comes down to being a head coach can JJ reick Elevate his game put a little bit of his ego aside and go in that locker room speak today’s language this is a different day and age UD this is not when you and I were coming up and we under the uh osure and Pat Riley system only a few coaches are allowed to be the that best version of themselves so I applaud it you know JJ kudos to him and uh let’s see where it goes so JJ reck has been sought after on a multiple on multiple staffs and as a head coach in a lot of situations over the last couple years he’s turned them down like two years ago the Boston cels said can you come Bey on Joel missoula’s staff and he said no I’m not ready for that I I I want to take some time away from my playing career he has some some young kids he wants to be around this is a guy this is not just the Lakers who’ve been interested in JJ reic there’s been a number of teams I know teams had him on their board as replacements for iconic coaches in this league he is somebody that has been scouted and thought of as a future great head coach in this league for a long time and the Lakers I know it may have seemed like it took a long time to land on JJ r and they did have this this this conversation and offer to Dan Hurley but JJ reck is a very sought after head coach in this league and the Lakers are taking a chance on somebody is unproven but they’re not the only ones who were considering taking a chance on him and the fact that they did this now it I just come back to these two words that we always talk about with LeBron James basketball IQ we’ve talked about it since he was in Cleveland and that is what he wants in a coach on his team and the players on his team JJ has that in Spades as as we’ve all heard in I think that’s three words basketball intelligent quotient okay well together is just a word we can shorten it right it’s like La is it LA or Los Angeles okay I guess you’re saying okay Dave your thoughts on JJ being the new head coach listen as Ramona was saying ever since he interviewed with the Toronto Raptors for a spot on their staff he got the bug and he thought this will be his Destiny in this game uh he’s accomplished so many other things when it comes to basketball but he really felt like he had something to give to today’s game and Ed all the basketball Acumen he’s picked up over the years from Coach K at Duke playing for a championship head coach a guy with championship pedigree with Doc Rivers a long portion of his career with the LA Clippers and you know he’s a guy who succeeded pretty much everything that’s come his way in this sport he was ahead of the game when it came to podcasting it wasn’t just him doing mind the game with LeBron James while he was a player he was doing a podcast with Bill Simmon and the ringer and and you I just think it’s a worthy gamble you know there’s risk involved he’s never coached a game other than for his children but it’s a worthy Gamble and and he’s going to step in with the confidence and I think the self assurance it takes to stand in the storm that happens almost every year with the Lakers and with LeBron James teams yeah I’m with perk on that one man at this stage of the game it’s a players League they got to like you in the league these days it’s not when we play when they just give you a t T and you run through a brick wall and you don’t ask any questions it’s a players league and if they don’t like you they’ll get you out of there so the first thing JJ’s got to do is go in there and establish relationships with these guys I know he has one with LeBron James but he’s got to establish relationships with all these guys in the locker room he’s got to make sure that it’s only one voice and that he earns their respect I remember playing for Eric sper I know the SPO that we see now today but the SPO that started was in the film room the SPO that started was rebounding the that started was working us out he came in there and me and Dwayne remember that uh ER exposure but he earned our respect he earned the name POA Nostra he worked for that so JJ is going to have to work and earn those guys respect uh perk I want to ask you this because UD is talking about earning the players respect I heard him this morning on First Take talking about how obviously they know who who who he was as a player they understand his basketball mind but he hasn’t been a head coach yet how does he go into that locker room and earn that respect from those players well I think I think he got to find that fine line of separating the two right of being the head coach but also being somewhat of a friend right you talk about being the players League I think the way that he starts is that he got to get the attention of the most important person in that locker room and it’s not LeBron James it’s Anthony Davis if I’m JJ Ric that’s the first person I’m getting on the phone uh phone with and figuring things out now I already now we already know he’s probably already had conversations with bro but again this had to be a Anthony Davis hire how are you going to put Anthony Davis is in the best position to uh be successful if JJ reick is able to get on the same page and get Anthony Davis attention and respect like UD was talking about the respect Factor everyone else is going to follow everyone else is going to follow and I think UD said something that was key and I’mma leave it at here one voice one voice it’s not a it’s not a million voices it’s his voice in his way not a LeBron way [Music] he

NBA Today reacts to Adrian Wojnarowski breaking the news that JJ Redick and the Los Angeles Lakers have agreed on a four-year contract to make him Los Angeles’ next head coach.

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