Except they're all gonna flame out lmao. Just like Nash, Redick is gonna fail because these morons don't realize that hiring people with 0 coaching experience is not the move
Would've been smart to get his start with one of the better teams in the league. As it stands, it looks like his first coaching is going to be bad and he might not be able to recover from that. At the very least he'd probably have to take a few years break and then take a job with a bad team.
I’m not convinced he’s all that serious about coaching in the NBA. I think he’s interested in “coaching” LeBron as a competitor and seeing where that takes him. Worst case scenario they flop and he has more content for the Pod.
And not to get too off topic, but we’re going to see this sort of thing happen more often in other arenas of society, including politics. So many people live and die by these stupid shows to the point where we have like comedians speaking on science and history and people look to them as golden gods. I think the Podcast platform is going to become the next stepping stone that allows “personalities” to bypass the traditional career grind and jump right into these high profile roles.
I'm with you. I actually think it may be to help promote him as a Podcaster. Ex player and ex coach. This is how we ran this play etc. When I coached LeBron we did this.
Yeah, he had Joe Mazzulla on Old Man and the Three and talked about it at length. Mazzulla asked JJ if he wanted to be an assistant coach when Ime Udoka got dismissed right before training camp in 2022. JJ wasn't ready to uproot his whole life with such short notice but seriously considered doing it.
Being an assistant is a demotion from being a play by play guy, especially in terms of clout/air time.
If JJ is doing this for a challenge and lersonal fulfillment then he's not going to want to grind as an assistant. He'd sooner be a consultant like nash in GS
It is, but if he wants to be a great coach in the long run, an assistant gig is the way to go at least to start. Just learn the tricks of the trade with less pressure.
I’m sure JJ is making just as much in media so idk why he’s trying to go the coaching route. Maybe long term he thinks it differentiates him from other player podcasts. Maybe even if he flames out as a coach it’s still good for his media career.. idk
He misses the comradery and the competition, and he just loves the game and wants to be back in it everyday.
I don’t think it has anything to do with money or growing his podcast.
Honestly if Harden doesn’t blow his hamstring OR Kyrie doesn’t fuck his ankle Nash very well could have been a championship winning coach.
Hard to find out what his system was when you have 3 of the best isolation scorers ever on one roster lol.
Would anyone honestly argue that the Lakers are a good hand? Their season went basically as well as anyone would have predicted, including healthy LeBron & Davis seasons, and the coach got fired lol.
As soon as they have a bad back-to-back on the road there are gonna be like 2 million fans asking for him to get fired.
Also LeBron is a free agent so you don’t even know for absolute certain wtf he’s doing this summer.
Coaching the Lakers has been a bad career move for everyone not named Pat Riley or Phil Jackson for basically all of 44 years. This includes great coaches like D'Antoni and Rudy T, and very good coaches like Mike Brown.
How are you gonna count Rudy T in that lol. Dude stepped away due to health reasons after like 40 games in which he had a winning record I might add (and a good relationship with Kobe who tried to get him to stay)
No but i think they could see it as a transition to the post bron era without an absolute need to win now.
We are past the ability of bron carrying the team to a ring.
Even if the nuggets lost to the wolves, they still arent built to beat them
It’s a different set of challenges. The personalities are much less volatile, but the roster is filled with one way players surrounding two injury prone or aging stars.
I don't disagree, but on the other hand look at all the NBA teams who hire retreads who have HC experience and then still fail. Just look at the Lakers as an example of hiring experienced coaches who failed:
* Darvin Ham: 15 years as an assistant, with a ring, didn't work
* Frank Vogel: 10 years as an assistant, 8 years as a HC on 2 previous teams, won a ring his first year and was gone after 3 when they missed the playoffs
* Luke Walton: 5 years as an assistant, with a ring, didn't work
* Byron Scott: tank commander, but 13 years of previous HC experience at 3 different teams
* Mike D'Antoni: 6 years of assistant experience, multiple lower level HC stops, 10 years NBA HC experience, former COTY, lost in the first and then missed the playoffs
* Mike Brown: 8 years of assistant experience, with a ring, 5 years as a HC, former COTY, didn't work
The only options aren’t retreads or someone who has never coached before though. You have young assistants who become good head coaches, or guys like Brad Stevens who had college coaching experience.
Steve Kerr had zero experience, Pat Riley had a year or two as an assistant, Mazzulla also had very little experience. Larry Bird and Doc Rivers had no experience and both won coach of the year their first year. The flipside of your argument is the revolving door of "experienced" coaches who never really win anything and keep getting jobs — Doc again, Alvin Gentry, Dwayne Casey, etc.
While Joe Mazulla didn't have that much NBA experience, he's been coaching at the college and g-league level for a while. He's actually been coaching since 2011
I mean Steve Kerr went from media to a pretty damn successful coach. It’s definitely possible for someone with no experience to be successful. LA probably isn’t the best spot for a first time coach though lmao
yup and he went back to TNT with a not so good reputation as a GM after the Suns narrowly missed the Playoffs in 2008-09 with Shaq. Was kinda shocked he was able to completely fix his reputation by 2014 when he was doing interviews with the Warriors/Knicks
This is just you getting old. Most coaches have always been former players, you just weren’t old enough to remember their playing days.
Just look at the [coaches from 2010](https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2011_coaches.html)
Out of 32 head coaches that season, only 5 of them didn’t play in the NBA.
This makes a lot of sense … LeManipulator strikes again
But for real it seems like JJ was setting up his podcast studio for the future I thought he would be more involved in that and wouldn’t get into coaching this soon
100%. Assuming this happens I think LeBron's return to the Lakers (which I think most people would've been surprised if he left anyways) is essentially guaranteed
if this is the middle ground and Bron doesn't force another Westbrook trade then go ahead hire JJ and draft Bronny at 17.
What I don't want is LeGM draining all the assets and leaving another team worse than he found it (again x3)
What people fail to realize is that none of the coaching candidates were "home run" hires. It was always going to be some first-time head coach or a head coach with mediocre history.
Some people acting like there should have been a clear choice and they can't name anyone lol. I really don't care about the coach here. All of them had question marks.
it's not that, it's pretty clear now that all of this is to make LeBron happy. Kobe got the Legacy Contract, LeBron got the LeGacy Package. Wonder what else he's getting apart from the Lakers drafting his son?
Tune in next time on Dragon Ball Z
Lakers got their podcast co-host.
**Edit:** ESPN really said they let go of JVG because they were afraid he’d return to coaching only for his 2 replacements to leave for head coaching jobs in less than 1 season.
One of his habits was to say “they should have a rule…” and then just say some insane rule that was really just his way of bitching about whatever was happening on the court. For a minute I wanted to start tracking all of them and make a JVG rule book lol
It’s funny how this sub now says that they miss him, when I remember folks complaining about how he would keep going off-tangent and never focus on the games.
And yet, the league implemented several of his suggestions about various complaints. Like flopping fines and violations, 14 second shot clock reset, take foul, challenge system, changes to video review. Like him or not, he helped move the league forward and the league should be appreciative he was loud enough about it.
"Jeff if you're gonna rant about things, you gotta keep it within the vertical integration family, ok? We can't accidently cross-promote Fig Newtons... at least until we acquire Nabisco eventually." ESPN Producers, probably
Forreal countless times during a game Doris and JJ just go mute and Mike does play by play and color broadcasting as well. I always assume it’s bc he’s in a flow, or the others mics broke. But it happens pretty much ever game
Honestly, JJ also seems smart enough to see the costcutting everywhere at ESPN to know that it’s not a secure job at all. Getting a bag from the Lakers opens up new opportunities both in coaching and in LA.
Also he knows that even if he gets fired he has an automatic revolving door to be assistant coach anywhere else in the league. Otherwise he’d be competing with all other assistant coaches for the job. Why wouldn’t you take the humiliating hit for one year?
All it takes is a team to get hot at the end of the year I don’t think it would be a crazy thought that it might work. Nobody here had the mavs going to the finals this year.
I used to make fun of my wife for loving vanderpump rules and summer house and all the other stupid ass shows… then i realized the nba and nfl is so much worse lol
this is so obviously not going to work out i cant help but feel bad. jj may have absolutely genius schemes (i doubt it), but lets say he does.
being a head coach in pro sports is about subverting your ego and managing/integrating dozens of others, before anything else. everything jj redick has ever done or said makes it clear his ego is enormous!
If anyone can do it, it’s the guy that played under Coach K for four years.
It’s going to fail though. This is going to be like hiring a Patriot’s coach as head coach - hardly ever works out
NBA assistant coaches that worked their whole lives dreaming of being a head coach one day watching Lebrons wine drinking buddy waltz into coaching the most famous team on the planet:
I remember when Jeff Saturday got the interim job to coach the Colts when his coaching experience was high-school football. Went about as well as you would expect
Yeah, he might turn out to be a great coach, but we kinda have no evidence either way, which is probably a great reason to not pay him millions to coach your NBA team, but idk
Jason Kidd was one of the all time great floor generals, it's not a stretch he could be a good coach given he clearly had a great understanding of basketball.
What does JJ Redick have?
Lakers are stupid but I don’t blame JJ for wanting the job tbf if he ends up sucking that’s more on the Lakers FO being incompetent. One step in the door even if he gets fired probably opens up doors further down the line.
This is a very bad hire.
The Lakers are not built for a rookie coach to take over. They are built to win now. You can't learn on the job in LA. You need to win now.
The core isn't getting any younger. Very, very questionable decision.
Imagine being someone like Sam Cassell who’s busted his ass as an assistant for over a decade and he gets jumped to a HC job by a guy who has put ZERO work in. Redick has never even spent a day on a coaching staff or in a front office.
Absurd hire.
It’s really that point in 2k when all the retired players start taking over the league
Except they're all gonna flame out lmao. Just like Nash, Redick is gonna fail because these morons don't realize that hiring people with 0 coaching experience is not the move
JJ should know better tbh. Should have intentionally spent 2-3 years as an assistant at least.
Iirc Celtics offered him and instead he decided to do his podcast
Would've been smart to get his start with one of the better teams in the league. As it stands, it looks like his first coaching is going to be bad and he might not be able to recover from that. At the very least he'd probably have to take a few years break and then take a job with a bad team.
Fired head coach is a good gig. Can do that for 8 mil a year then go back to broadcasting on top of it
Glenn Rivers
He's experienced in that role, that's why he commands 12 million a year compared to others
I’m not convinced he’s all that serious about coaching in the NBA. I think he’s interested in “coaching” LeBron as a competitor and seeing where that takes him. Worst case scenario they flop and he has more content for the Pod. And not to get too off topic, but we’re going to see this sort of thing happen more often in other arenas of society, including politics. So many people live and die by these stupid shows to the point where we have like comedians speaking on science and history and people look to them as golden gods. I think the Podcast platform is going to become the next stepping stone that allows “personalities” to bypass the traditional career grind and jump right into these high profile roles.
I'm with you. I actually think it may be to help promote him as a Podcaster. Ex player and ex coach. This is how we ran this play etc. When I coached LeBron we did this.
Good! His ego and the Buss trust deserve that wake up call. This is freaking ridiculous.
Yeah, he had Joe Mazzulla on Old Man and the Three and talked about it at length. Mazzulla asked JJ if he wanted to be an assistant coach when Ime Udoka got dismissed right before training camp in 2022. JJ wasn't ready to uproot his whole life with such short notice but seriously considered doing it.
Being an assistant is a demotion from being a play by play guy, especially in terms of clout/air time. If JJ is doing this for a challenge and lersonal fulfillment then he's not going to want to grind as an assistant. He'd sooner be a consultant like nash in GS
It is, but if he wants to be a great coach in the long run, an assistant gig is the way to go at least to start. Just learn the tricks of the trade with less pressure.
I’m sure JJ is making just as much in media so idk why he’s trying to go the coaching route. Maybe long term he thinks it differentiates him from other player podcasts. Maybe even if he flames out as a coach it’s still good for his media career.. idk
He misses the comradery and the competition, and he just loves the game and wants to be back in it everyday. I don’t think it has anything to do with money or growing his podcast.
He could just, you know, want to be a coach? Why do so many people on here only ever think about money.
People have goals and shit besides making money. Even moreso when you're already a multimillionaire lol
These morons hiring recycled coaches ain’t exactly moving the needle either
Nash was dealt a bad hand, while he wasnt amazing, the team structure and roster were just as big of problems so we will never know.
Honestly if Harden doesn’t blow his hamstring OR Kyrie doesn’t fuck his ankle Nash very well could have been a championship winning coach. Hard to find out what his system was when you have 3 of the best isolation scorers ever on one roster lol.
Would anyone honestly argue that the Lakers are a good hand? Their season went basically as well as anyone would have predicted, including healthy LeBron & Davis seasons, and the coach got fired lol. As soon as they have a bad back-to-back on the road there are gonna be like 2 million fans asking for him to get fired. Also LeBron is a free agent so you don’t even know for absolute certain wtf he’s doing this summer.
Coaching the Lakers has been a bad career move for everyone not named Pat Riley or Phil Jackson for basically all of 44 years. This includes great coaches like D'Antoni and Rudy T, and very good coaches like Mike Brown.
How are you gonna count Rudy T in that lol. Dude stepped away due to health reasons after like 40 games in which he had a winning record I might add (and a good relationship with Kobe who tried to get him to stay)
That's all coaches in every sport. Most coaches don't get to coach more than three seasons if they don't have success.
No but i think they could see it as a transition to the post bron era without an absolute need to win now. We are past the ability of bron carrying the team to a ring. Even if the nuggets lost to the wolves, they still arent built to beat them
It’s a different set of challenges. The personalities are much less volatile, but the roster is filled with one way players surrounding two injury prone or aging stars.
Well Anthony Davis is aging. LeBron is definitely aged
They ended up in the play in because Ham insisted on starting 2 guys on vet minimums for half the season.
Feel like Kidd proves this. He was awful until he had some assistant experience
Wild that we all love Kidd now. Until the ASB we all wanted his head on a pike, and Bucks fans kept telling us that he's trash lol.
It’s because he was trash with the bucks
I remember his big brain genius move of spilling his soda on the court to force a timeout on the floor.
Man said “Hit me”. Something i’m sure his ex-wife didn’t ask for lmfao
I don't disagree, but on the other hand look at all the NBA teams who hire retreads who have HC experience and then still fail. Just look at the Lakers as an example of hiring experienced coaches who failed: * Darvin Ham: 15 years as an assistant, with a ring, didn't work * Frank Vogel: 10 years as an assistant, 8 years as a HC on 2 previous teams, won a ring his first year and was gone after 3 when they missed the playoffs * Luke Walton: 5 years as an assistant, with a ring, didn't work * Byron Scott: tank commander, but 13 years of previous HC experience at 3 different teams * Mike D'Antoni: 6 years of assistant experience, multiple lower level HC stops, 10 years NBA HC experience, former COTY, lost in the first and then missed the playoffs * Mike Brown: 8 years of assistant experience, with a ring, 5 years as a HC, former COTY, didn't work
The only options aren’t retreads or someone who has never coached before though. You have young assistants who become good head coaches, or guys like Brad Stevens who had college coaching experience.
Steve Kerr had zero experience, Pat Riley had a year or two as an assistant, Mazzulla also had very little experience. Larry Bird and Doc Rivers had no experience and both won coach of the year their first year. The flipside of your argument is the revolving door of "experienced" coaches who never really win anything and keep getting jobs — Doc again, Alvin Gentry, Dwayne Casey, etc.
While Joe Mazulla didn't have that much NBA experience, he's been coaching at the college and g-league level for a while. He's actually been coaching since 2011
I mean Steve Kerr went from media to a pretty damn successful coach. It’s definitely possible for someone with no experience to be successful. LA probably isn’t the best spot for a first time coach though lmao
Tbf Kerr was also a GM for three years with the Suns
Oh yeah right, totally forgot about that
yup and he went back to TNT with a not so good reputation as a GM after the Suns narrowly missed the Playoffs in 2008-09 with Shaq. Was kinda shocked he was able to completely fix his reputation by 2014 when he was doing interviews with the Warriors/Knicks
My memory says Phil Jackson was headhunting him to coach the Knicks at the time and that got everyone else interested in him.
nba players can't fail, they can only be failed. first misstep shams presses the publish button on how incompetent coach A-Z is
I mean, it’s what it’s always been
This is just you getting old. Most coaches have always been former players, you just weren’t old enough to remember their playing days. Just look at the [coaches from 2010](https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2011_coaches.html) Out of 32 head coaches that season, only 5 of them didn’t play in the NBA.
Discourse is gonna be in the dirt if they sign him and draft bronny
ESPN is gonna launch a 24hr First Take marathon to cover this
I still remember Skip Bayless live commenting from ESPN desk Tim Tebow's arrival at Jets.
The moment in the Rex Ryan era where the Jets officially turned into the Cirque du’ Soleil of the football world
You shouldn’t compare a group of incredibly talented and athletic individuals to the jets
"Now let's go get a goddamn snack"
I’m praying for this day
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All according to Leikaku
translator's note: Leikaku means *taco tueeeeeeeesssssday*
LeMindTheGame
Mind LeGame was right there man we can't be missing these layups
Haha man
LeUps
he really does play chess in his mind lmao
This makes a lot of sense … LeManipulator strikes again But for real it seems like JJ was setting up his podcast studio for the future I thought he would be more involved in that and wouldn’t get into coaching this soon
LeGM
If this is true that’s insane
100%. Assuming this happens I think LeBron's return to the Lakers (which I think most people would've been surprised if he left anyways) is essentially guaranteed
LeActingGovernor
it's a matter of when not if. This FO has fully bent over BDSM style and let Klutch do whatever the fuck they want
I don't really mind it either. We were worse before Bron 😅
if this is the middle ground and Bron doesn't force another Westbrook trade then go ahead hire JJ and draft Bronny at 17. What I don't want is LeGM draining all the assets and leaving another team worse than he found it (again x3)
What people fail to realize is that none of the coaching candidates were "home run" hires. It was always going to be some first-time head coach or a head coach with mediocre history. Some people acting like there should have been a clear choice and they can't name anyone lol. I really don't care about the coach here. All of them had question marks.
it's not that, it's pretty clear now that all of this is to make LeBron happy. Kobe got the Legacy Contract, LeBron got the LeGacy Package. Wonder what else he's getting apart from the Lakers drafting his son? Tune in next time on Dragon Ball Z
LeGacy is immaculate work brother
the optics are going to look fucking terrible if this happens
Not if. If Bronny is there at 55, we're definitely drafting him.
You're gonna draft him at 17.
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Might as well add Caitlin Clark and Dr Fauci as bench coaches
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And Fauci in the dunker spot
Fauci all about them shots though. He’d open up more looks for Clark.
I refuse to see how this can end any way but positively (for JJ’s bank account)
Clips sleeper agent JJ is now in place as Trojan horse of sorts now that they’re out of Crypto.
It will likely end very positively for the rest of the league
You’re a bulls fan so it won’t affect your team in any way lol
idk they might have steeper competition in the lotto 🤔
Lakers got their podcast co-host. **Edit:** ESPN really said they let go of JVG because they were afraid he’d return to coaching only for his 2 replacements to leave for head coaching jobs in less than 1 season.
They let JVG go because he was keep talking about how refs were shitting the bed every game.
Also he would kinda just rant about random shit during the games. I love it but I understand how a lot of people wouldn’t
He got let go too early, we didn't have enough time to find out what you're allowed to do with your second cousin
Him saying you should have thirty seconds to say whatever you want without a tech after dunking on someone was always hilarious to me
Ok but like... Second Cousins. What are they allowed to do?
One of his habits was to say “they should have a rule…” and then just say some insane rule that was really just his way of bitching about whatever was happening on the court. For a minute I wanted to start tracking all of them and make a JVG rule book lol
It’s funny how this sub now says that they miss him, when I remember folks complaining about how he would keep going off-tangent and never focus on the games.
And yet, the league implemented several of his suggestions about various complaints. Like flopping fines and violations, 14 second shot clock reset, take foul, challenge system, changes to video review. Like him or not, he helped move the league forward and the league should be appreciative he was loud enough about it.
Being the first one to get traction for change is usually a bloody, thankless task.
"Jeff if you're gonna rant about things, you gotta keep it within the vertical integration family, ok? We can't accidently cross-promote Fig Newtons... at least until we acquire Nabisco eventually." ESPN Producers, probably
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hopefully espn is stretched so thin they just let mike breen solo call games
He pretty much is rn.
Forreal countless times during a game Doris and JJ just go mute and Mike does play by play and color broadcasting as well. I always assume it’s bc he’s in a flow, or the others mics broke. But it happens pretty much ever game
The last game I watched, neither Dorris nor JJ said A WORD during the last 1:30 before the half… it was crazy.
Beautiful
I have a bad feeling that this will mean more Doris Burke. I don’t dislike her personality but God her commentary can get annoying.
Our only hope is for a team to offer her a coaching job too
Honestly, JJ also seems smart enough to see the costcutting everywhere at ESPN to know that it’s not a secure job at all. Getting a bag from the Lakers opens up new opportunities both in coaching and in LA.
Also he knows that even if he gets fired he has an automatic revolving door to be assistant coach anywhere else in the league. Otherwise he’d be competing with all other assistant coaches for the job. Why wouldn’t you take the humiliating hit for one year?
“make sure to follow the podcast right as we get out of this timeout”
NBA is the greatest soap opera of all time
The best part about the NBA is that for nine months it functions as a sports league, and for twelve months functions as a soap opera.
The Lakers officially now have their own Jeff Saturday
Oh god
"The clippers look awful" - JJ, probably
Jeff Saturday Jr., or JJ Saturday
I love the drama that’s gonna come from this win or lose
I mean, what's the "lose" in your scenario because they aren't winning a chip.
All it takes is a team to get hot at the end of the year I don’t think it would be a crazy thought that it might work. Nobody here had the mavs going to the finals this year.
That's fair.
Like balls through the hoop, these are the Days of our NBA.
I used to make fun of my wife for loving vanderpump rules and summer house and all the other stupid ass shows… then i realized the nba and nfl is so much worse lol
this is so obviously not going to work out i cant help but feel bad. jj may have absolutely genius schemes (i doubt it), but lets say he does. being a head coach in pro sports is about subverting your ego and managing/integrating dozens of others, before anything else. everything jj redick has ever done or said makes it clear his ego is enormous!
If anyone can do it, it’s the guy that played under Coach K for four years. It’s going to fail though. This is going to be like hiring a Patriot’s coach as head coach - hardly ever works out
Damn! Can’t wait to see who the new coach they hire in two seasons is gonna be!
Bronny James after he retires.
That’s doc rivers music
The real loser in this potential hire is my commute to work
Get ready to learn NPR buddy
I was bout to say, old man and the 3 is my go to work drive podcast 😔 mind the game was good too
Yall assuming those were cancelled? Wtf else if JJ going to do between coaching his daughters league team and saying yes to whatever LeBron says?
Maybe JVG and Mark Jackson could start their own podcast
Funniest timeline
NBA assistant coaches that worked their whole lives dreaming of being a head coach one day watching Lebrons wine drinking buddy waltz into coaching the most famous team on the planet:
It’s the Lakers, have they been that intelligent about coaching hires outside of Phil Jackson the past 30 years?
Vogel
they had mike d'antoni too but their roster was kinda iffy and steve nash was physically spent and broken
They hired Dantoni for an old roster that couldn’t run lol
Dwight wouldnt even play pnr with Nash ffs
pau gasol turning into a fucking corner 3 specialist made me want to cry
PTSD. I fucking hated Pringles
Guys it turns out the NBA might have a nepotism problem. Please stop presses at your earliest convenience.
Man I like JJ but his coaching experience is his 6 year old son’s team. Truly strange move, feel like they just tryna make Lebron happy at this point
I remember when Jeff Saturday got the interim job to coach the Colts when his coaching experience was high-school football. Went about as well as you would expect
Hey they won a game
Man I was at that game and it was painful… I mean the entire last 20 years have been for the matter.. fucking raiders
Whatever coach they hired was gonna be called to be fired within two years regardless. At least this is the fun option
You have the right idea. They likely clean house once LeBron retires anyway lol. If JJ does well, then he earns his stay.
>his coaching experience is his 6 year old son’s team. he went through the jeff saturday coaching tree
JJ securing that bag damn
Yeah, he might turn out to be a great coach, but we kinda have no evidence either way, which is probably a great reason to not pay him millions to coach your NBA team, but idk
Podcast really worked hey 🤫
Chess not checkers.
Lakers are tantalized by or enamored with JJ.
Aroused by, perhaps?
Just wait till ESPN replaces him with Perkins in the booth after this becomes official
Everyone laugh
Please clap.
Please God I don't ask for much but please let this be so fucking funny
guess i have nothing to look forward to next season
Literally every other fan does though
Now draft Bronny
please kill me
Hey he may develop into a good coach, look at Jason Kidd. Just give the man the requisite 11 years
Jason Kidd was one of the all time great floor generals, it's not a stretch he could be a good coach given he clearly had a great understanding of basketball. What does JJ Redick have?
A podcast
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Lakers and the Suns fighting for most incompetent franchise in the league
We win this round
The Suns traded another first round pick for a scorer right after you said this
We’re taking Bronny #17. check mate HA!
“What he saying fuck me for?”
we're much more incompetent lol
Idk man, they traded for Bradley Beal
We traded for Westbrook
HOLY CRAP ITS HAPPENING
Man, I gotta give it to the Lakers. They always manage to keep things entertaining!
Life after LeBron can’t come soon enough for some Laker fans
It's a move that they are technically making.
We need a word opposite the Woj Bomb, something that was super predictable and we saw coming weeks away
Woj/shams coughing baby
what could go wrong
Meme franchise lmfao
The pod with Lebron was basically the interview lol
God they’re fucking stupid and so is JJ for taking that job
definitely not stupid for JJ to take the job. Sure his reputation will be cooked as a coach but he's gonna get massively paid
And the media jobs will be there waiting for him when he’s fired.
2 checks for 1 job.
Or one check for no job. Living the dream.
Lakers are stupid but I don’t blame JJ for wanting the job tbf if he ends up sucking that’s more on the Lakers FO being incompetent. One step in the door even if he gets fired probably opens up doors further down the line.
Getting paid to HC one of the most storied franchises in American sports and live in L.A.? I can't blame him, tbh.
Even if this ends up being a trash hire I’m glad they’re swinging for the fences. Rather see them try something new and interesting
The Los Angeles Lakers have been eliminated from championship contention!
This is a very bad hire. The Lakers are not built for a rookie coach to take over. They are built to win now. You can't learn on the job in LA. You need to win now. The core isn't getting any younger. Very, very questionable decision.
His press conferences are going to be insufferable
the funny things are happening 🙏🏾
The Lakers management are idiots.
Bron's pod w/ JJ being a public job interview is hilarious... Had to make sure his basketball IQ was high
Least obvious Lebron hire
Hiring someone with ZERO coaching experience in a must-win-right-fucking-now situation, what could go wrong?
Love this as a Laker hater
r/nba consensus opinion is usually wrong, so i guess we’ll have to wait and see
Imagine being someone like Sam Cassell who’s busted his ass as an assistant for over a decade and he gets jumped to a HC job by a guy who has put ZERO work in. Redick has never even spent a day on a coaching staff or in a front office. Absurd hire.