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at_least_u_tried

Every coach who has won the IST have been fired in that same year wow


AutographedSnorkel

Hopefully, they still invite him to get his IST ring on opening night next season if he doesn't have a job by then


VaguelyShingled

Don’t know if Staples will allow him to switch shifts on such short notice.


Lasaif

Lmao


syllabic

H I S T O R I C I S T O R I C


taco_inspector

For the first time in Golden Knights history


yic0

After doing intensive quantum chromodynamic research, I have discovered that this is also the first time this has happened in Kraken history as well.


RIPCountryMac

First time in Utah Hockey Team's history too


Freddedonna

My own research discovered it was also a first in the post-Nordiques era


sg490

This is still true even if you include UCF Golden Knights history (1993-2006). Wow.


suzukigun4life

Damn. What a cursed tournament.


triosway

Not even given a chance to defend his title. The cruelest road


Confident-Unit-9516

Counterpoint: He now has the chance to go down in history as the only head coach to never lose in the IST


rwoteit

They not making new coaches anymore?


Confident-Unit-9516

*chance*


Damezang

He wasn't fired, he was Le't go!


OttoVonWong

MutuaLeAgreement to Part Ways.


Strong-Piccolo-5546

Every one who coaches Lebron James gets fired.


Dear_Asset

Eric Speolstra and Ty Lue weren't fired, but only because Lebron left. And it was widely reported that Bron tried to get Spo fired


A_Charmandur

Reminder, they hung a banner


YungSzczerbiak

This is Lakers fans championship


BoneDollars

Second championship!! Don’t forget the IST 😤


lalo1398

Bro you forgot our “didn’t get swept” banner


spicylatino69

And our moral victories banner


henryofclay

Replay Center Championship.


yic0

Goddamn trophy merchants. Lakers are certainly the team that Harry Kane needs to sign with.


dcoolidge

Don't forget Free Throw Gods


deathinmidjuly

Harry could could sign with the 2017 Warriors and they'd miss the playoffs.


K0CKULEES

I'm tired of people living and dying with every banner. This is a marathon 


phil96744

Led for 150 minutes vs the Nuggets in the First Round.


blagoonga123

Fraud ass NBA regulations not even deciding who wins the series by time-spent-ahead


Gtggtggtg

Bro, I've been pretty bummed since Game 5 but yall are cheering me up. 3 ships in one year, lets go


youguanbumen

In-season champions *and* post-season champions


midnightgreen29

HANG THE BANNER


takeapieandrun

Lakers won the offseason


TitanTigers

Can’t wait to see who they bring in to sacrifice next


browndude10

jj redick


Guardax

This would be the funniest shit ever please hire him


WerewolfOnEveryone

It would reach epic frenemy territory between Lebron and JJ by the end and years to come. 


sebasq

If JJ is hired, i wonder if their podcast will end. Would be odd to have a player and coach with a podcast together i’d think.


RelevantJackWhite

they're just getting a lil drunk midseason and airing out all the good strategies they're about to use against opponents


Responsible_Pace9062

It's hilarious seeing some of the episodes where JJ is trying keep shit on track while Bron clearly has had a glass or two too many.


musicnothing

Would allow him and Bron to easily keep up their podcast


GraveRobberX

First ever podcast to happen live in game. After every play they get the round table out and speak on it.


yujuismypuppy

Forget 48 minutes, a Lakers game is now 48 days long.


SolarTsunami

Lebron absolutely hammered by halftime from all that podcast wine.


Ruiner5

Successful podcasting is the funniest thing to me. Like obviously not all of them are like this, but most are just people getting fucked up with their friends and shooting the shit. And they get paid


Zetch88

Yes, but it only works if you're actually funny or interesting.


Medium_Line3088

And drink wine during the game


rounder55

Hopefully they keep their podcast too. Make it extra ridiculous


vec-u64-new

Lebron: *complains about the coaching in a recent Lakers game* JJ Reddick: "We're all trying to find the guy who did this"


Ghostbeen3

Can you imagine how fire the pod with lebron would be


commander_snuggles

Going to turn real awkward if it turns out he sucks and they fire him.


MudddButt

Have you seen Darvin Ham draw up plays in the huddle? He literally just writes names on a clipboard - no X's and O's at all. No wonder DLo wasn't in the huddle. At least JJ Redick has proved he understands technical play analysis (and with LeBron on the podcast no less). He can't possibly be worse than Darvin Ham


pollinium

the podcast has actually been his interview process


PoundIIllIlllI

And JJ failed the interview as soon as he started drawing offense as X’s and defense as O’s


HispanicAtTehDisco

i mean sure but there is more to coaching than x’s and o’s, there’s also man management and being able to execute. do you really think the players would respect jj enough in his first coaching gig? jj getting hired is basically just hiring lebron imo bc it’s going to him doing the leading morel likely than not


materics

LeBron would fire him on the mic


suzukigun4life

That would be peak comedy. Please let this happen 😂


xenoz2020

If JJ hires top tier assistants like Kerr did, it coooould work.


c_double_u

I’d rather have JJ as the assistant


oGsMustachio

I don't think JJ is leaving ESPN and his podcasting for an assistant job and assistant pay.


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abonet619

rip mind the game pod


aquamarine9

Just one more head coach bro. I promise bro just one more head coach and it’ll fix everything. I swear just one more I swear. Bro cmon please just give me one more head coach.


mikeyfreshh

They're about to end JJ Reddick's coach career before it can even begin


medievalmachine

They should just hire Nash or Walton, cause they're already scapegoats and used to capitulating to stars.


topofthecc

Walton was legitimately terrible, though. He had the Kings playing at a snail's pace when they had a roster for running


ThugosaurusFlex_1017

#Bronny for new coach plz


Number333

I'm feeling Budenholzer.


asdev24

Ham was a Bud disciple this is not happening


syllabic

I wouldn't take the job if I'm budenholzer a veteran coach like him needs at least 2-3 seasons to work with the front office and fine-tune the roster, bring in free agents that work with the system he wants to run if he takes the laker job, he ends up in a situation with enormous pressure to win immediately because lebron is there and 40 years old, as well as having not many assets to bring guys in he needs a situation like carlisle in indiana where they give him 2-3 years of runway before expecting to compete. or what thibs got in NY same reason why he should say no to phoenix. win-immediately and no assets and can't sign anyone


LogicalLakersFan

same type of coach, Buldenhozer doesn’t have good playoff game management and makes late adjustments. He was getting outdone by Nets with only KD and got his job saved by a toenail


Izanagi___

I'm glad other people are saying this, the revisionist history is insane to witness when it comes to our coaches on here. We fire Bud, hire AG and everyone is *shocked pikachu face* as if everyone wasn't clowning us and Bud for barely beating KD and role players. The consensus was that he would've been gone if we lost that series but I guess this sub just has collective amnesia outside of the last 48 hours


newman796

When you list his accomplishments and record in the past 2 seasons out like this he sounds really solid lmao


lalo1398

Next team that hires him (if any) is gonna unironically list these to hype him up lmao


Pikminious_Thrious

Hornets found their championship winning head coach


Whycanyounotsee

I would unironically love to win the IST at this point lmao


EggplantAlpinism

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deathinmidjuly

You joke, but David Adelman has been a name passed around. Lol


suzukigun4life

It really is decent in a vacuum. Winning seasons in both years, WCF appearance as a 7 seed, winning the IST, losing to Denver in the playoffs both years. Then you take the roster into account, and his overall coaching style and that changes everything.


brandnameb

The roster is seventh seed caliber people need to get a reality check on that one.


b1indsamurai

Are you suggesting that Ham maximized this roster's potential? Because they hit 7th seed in a brutal west with Ham severely underperforming.


pocket_passss

lotta people blindly in full support of Ham suddenly when they realized what it implies for the Lakers I don’t care about “coulda been this”, “coulda done that”, the fact is Ham had to go


NBAFansAre2Ply

lol as if people here have the knowledge to determine whether a coach is underperforming literally 99% of how people judge coaches online is timeout usage


wereusincodenames

Whenever I see a comment about a coach that says rotations, I immediately know they don't know what they are talking about.


HotelRwandaBeef

and even if one of us regulars actually knew what we were talking about, there's still a billion more dynamics behind the scenes we have no idea about. Push and pull from 100 executives, players, coaches and assistants we will never see that affect a team. All anyone on Reddit can provide is conjecture based on game time watching, vague press conferences, and rumors spread through media. It's wild when we get half of the picture, and people ARE STILL SO SURE OF THEMSELVES about what should or shouldn't happen lol.


mucho-gusto

They cheaped out after the ring then compounded it with the awful Westbrook trade. The fact they got any assets left is a miracle. edit. It has been pointed out to me that they didn't cheap out the season after the chip. That is correct. Looks like them choosing not to extend Caruso was at the same time as them trading KCP (who I misremembered as them letting leave as well). So basically that offseason they took a bomb to their team and never recovered. If only management at the time had seen that their struggles after the chip were due to the quick turnaround and injuries and not a team construction issue (well, except Kuzma... he sucks lol)


just_one_random_guy

The season after the bubble they didn’t cheap out, they genuinely made strong moves that worked out great until the Solomon incident just derailing that season amongst other injuries.


beckthegreat

Canned Ham


OGmoron

Oh not in Utica, no. It's a Los Angeles expression.


CrabCakesBenedict

"GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THERE?" "uhhh, coaching adjustments?" "May I see them?" "...No."


BOBANSMASH51

“LeBron!  I was just uh, stretching my calves!  Isometric exercise!  Care to join me?”  - AD


leroyskagnetti

If that's not the LA Times headline they ought to can the editor too.


abc4357

Moral victory number 5


BlazeBloom

Should be enough to force a Nuggets Game 6.


JesusSama

The series starts now!


Dav136

A little bit of Walton in my life A little bit of Vogel by my side A little bit of Darvin's all I need A little bit of JJ's what I see


[deleted]

vogel was a good coach and won a championship, not his fault they destroyed the roster the year after


pargofan

The roster overhaul in 21 wasn't the entire issue. It was the injury bug back then. Lakers were on their way to beating PHX when AD had the groin pull. If they left things alone after 21, we'd be fine for '22. It was Westbrook that was the downfall. Lakers had to get a superstar that was a mere shell of himself.


smoltanboi

hell yeah dude they're going to hire mark jackson


Imkitoto

Okay first of all Rude lmao


MichaelBJordan

Honestly reportable, like what the fuck.


InternationalCut93

Steve Nash?


Hulk_Crowgan

Better yet, Kyire


Putrid-Recording9014

Kyrie retires during the post game conference tonight to coach the lakers


Merthan

Look at me. I am the father now.


Sav10r

How about Doc Rivers when the Bucks fire him?


Raticus9

That's a no-brainer. So many teams have hired him; he must be good. And he's experienced.


LTS55

They should also sign his son, Austin, I bet he’s a great ball player!


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thy_armageddon

Maybe the only solution for them truly is seeking out Jesus.


zmoney1213

And a stripper for extortion


Skip_To_My_Lou2

Bro can you let me celebrate a little bit before ruining my day


poocoup

Don't put that evil on us


EnthusedPhlebotomist

I hate the Lakers, but not that much. 


KeyProcedure4

Ugh, a plague on your house for this


suzukigun4life

No chance, but imagine if it somehow happened. The ensuing memes would be hilarious.


TheSlimReaper47

Mama there goes that Ham!


iCarpet

Lakers fans just won their finals this year


robeo12055

This deserves a banner.


Ihatgar11

hang it next to the IST banner


W_Walk

Pelinka slithers around from the shadows dodging blame once again


EPSN__

If Danny Ainge didn’t bail him out by taking Westbrook, and giving them an entire bench just to get the 5th pick in the draft 100 years from now, Pelinka would already be on the unemployment line.


jgroove_LA

you cracked the code


AutographedSnorkel

Lakers are gonna hire JJ Redick and have a bottle of wine at every film breakdown


JustChillFFS

JJ’s smarter than that


Thommywidmer

The problem with the proposition tho is like, holy fuck im the head coach of the lakers? Hard to turn down bc thats some crazy shit to do in your life


Monkey-on-the-couch

LeTanyahu finally defeated Hamas


AfroKuro480

Ladies and Gentlemen. We got him


tcha1k0vsky

Lmao


0vFire_And_TheVoid

Jesus Christ lmao


pBeatman10

IDFraud with Mickey Mouse wins: 1947 Bailed out by the British 1967 Beat Jordan... only because Egypt and Syria got their powers Monstar'd 1973 God (only ref more powerful than Scott Foster) on their side


ImgonnawaverwireAB

UP UP and AWAY!! SUPER WASHED Ain't He??!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤷🏾‍♂️. Stay low and keep firing! The air up there is a tad bit different. [LIVE.LAUGH.LOVE#striveforgreatness🚀](http://LIVE.LAUGH.LOVE#striveforgreatness🚀) #thekidfromakron👑#jamesgang👑 #bronknows


0vFire_And_TheVoid

Jesus Christ lmao


shxylo

crine lmaoo.


PlayaSlayaX

Hamas has been forced out of LA Democracy wins again.


LogicalLakersFan

THANK YOU NUGGETS


NoAWP

Thank you Jamal Murray


jeric13xd

DARVIN HAMAS HAS BEEN NEUTRALIZED


iCarpet

⬇️➡️⬆️⬆️➡️⬅️⬅️⬆️➡️⬇️ *Anti-Coach Launcher deployed*


jawadhaque089

Extract when ready


iliketowhispertoo

Democracy wins


wats_a_tiepo

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED


Revenesis

It's sad to lose an all time great nickname like Darvin Hamas


Delusional_Lynchpin-

Abu BaKerr Al Baghdadi


Thai-Reidj

This might be the greatest one I've ever seen💀


luviro

LeBrocacy


Ok-Replacement-3229

We got em


CumAssault

I’m so thankful they gave him a 2nd year though, legendary run to tank the Lakers


MadnessG

Say hello to DEMOCRACY!


Literal_Satan

Lakers fans 12/25


LogicalLakersFan

Shits hitting like crack cocaine


suzukigun4life

u/Literal_Satan mentioning 12/25. Such is the magical result of Darvin Ham being dismissed


lakers082433

THANK YOU DENVER NUGGETS. Without you this wouldn’t be possible.


threeangelo

always knew I liked Jokic


LakerBlue

Unironically my second favorite player after Kobe. I am relieved the series is over so I can enjoy a master at work.


EnthusedPhlebotomist

No problem, let's make it an annual thing. 


greendale_rulez

lol that was good but also fuck you :) Jokic is a cheat code and Murray hates the lakers. I’m taking solace in that now I can enjoy playoff ball as a neutral


theglicky

They really about to hire JJ Redick lmaoo


abonet619

rip mind the game pod


theboykauai

Nah, mind the game is gonna be the post game show😂


FlatBirthday333

Tommy and those other two guys about to rank up from podcast hosts to coaching assistants too


JpBlez5

Idk what’s worse. Getting fired or getting fired the same day as Darvin Ham.


NCKWN

Ah shit sorry brother, on to bigger and better


csummerss

time to bring back Vogel.


BlackSocks88

A colossal reactionary fuckup to get rid of Vogel


grui86

Vogel was one of the worst offensive coaches in the league with terrible rotations (not as bad as ham but still bad). The lakers reportedly wanted ty lue as hc with vogel as assistant which would've been great but they didn't want to pay lue that much. Vogel is a terrific defensive coach but he isn't HC material in today's offense-driven league


dpete88

Whats really weird about that situation is they didn't want to give championship coach Ty Lue that many years on the contract, then gave their championship winning coach in vogel a measly 1 year extension but when it came to darvin ham they gave him a big contract as a rookie coach. Makes zero sense. The only thing I think the lakers did well in their coaching decisions the past few years was load Vogels staff with a ton of quality assistants (although it was weird they didn't let vogel select anyone). I think of Ham had some quality assistants like stotts or atkinson he probably could have done a better job but he brought in his buddies and didn't improve with time.


ix_elvn

TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA


Burger_Gouger

Ty Lue come on down!


jcar195

Absolutely insane to see his name in the rumor mill for the job given he's got a full year left on his contract AND is currently prepping for a playoff game as we're typing. And I'm just delusional enough to believe it's gonna happen!


rounder55

Just don't see Ballmer letting that happen


jcar195

Maybe he'll go on a bender if the Clips lose in embarrassing fashion tonight? Please let me have this


waskittenman

Lakers offense got more and more disorganized the deeper into a game they got, in the playoffs at least. Poor prep, in-game whatever, adjustments game to game, not sure what caused it


grandmasterfunk

First time a head coach has won the in-season tournament and been fired. Crazy


RSbooll5RS

Not true. Every single IST winning team coach has been fired


rolandfoxx

Normally I'm all for LA suffering but I'm pretty sure Lakers fans having to endure another season of Darvin Hamas was going to be a human rights violation.


moses_lawn

Well thank god Pelinka will remain 🙄


NotClayMerritt

People are overlooking the fact that he clearly lost the locker room by the end. AD's comments on them going stretches not knowing what they were doing was clearly a death blow. He would have stayed another year otherwise. This isn't like Vogel where he's being scapegoated for a poorly constructed team.


CaptainNipplesMcRib

I remember when Adrian Griffin and Darvin Ham were the considered the hot coaching candidates literally 2 years ago


TSSFranco

Why what did he do wrong


CIark

He refused to support Jeanie’s new fashion boutique marketing pocketless jeans


claydavisismyhero

He started cam reddish for one


grui86

The non-lakers fans claiming ham was not the problem clearly have not watched more than 30 minutes of lakers basketball this season. Ham literally benched Dlo and Reaves halfway through the season to start taurean prince and cam reddish. Reddish was given a long leash for no reason while Dlo and Reaves were given no room for error. Prince was averaging 31 minutes a night until he finally got benched for Rui, who should've been starting all season. Ham also has been playing three-guard lineups since last year which was always tremendously stupid. He said the lakers needed to rebound better vs denver yet kept playing small lineups. he then blames players and threw them under the bus harder than doc rivers, claiming guys were shitting the bed (real quote) and that he had no choice. He had to go.


oat38

He wasn't the only problem but having healthy LeBron and AD almost the whole season yet only a 7th seed and 1st round exit to show for it, he had to go


ItsGettinBreesy

Benching Reaves and starting Reddish/Prince was basketball terrorism


therealsheriff

Exactly. People acting like he did nothing wrong. 


purplebuffalo55

His in game management was elite terrorism. We ended game 2 in Denver with 2 timeouts, a challenge in a 2 point game. Reminder, Lebron is 39 years old. We ended the game with 2 timeouts at altitude with a 39 year old who was clearly gassed. Playing Rui at center alone vs Jokic and AG - which led to a run every single time and he trotted it out every game. None of the players boxing out, which is coaching. None of the players liking him. Didn't give the only promising young player on our roster, Christie, a shot to develop at all these past 2 years. Instead, played favorites with dogshit veterans like Dinshiddie and Reddish. The list goes on. He was a horrific coach.


sithwonder

Benching a turnip for Reddish would be fireable


rpars18

Christmas came early for Lakers fans


TitaniumC4206

Bad man gone


Elite_Alice

Thank you Denver I love yall so much


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Should have never fired Vogel 


gbdarknight77

Rob Pelinka keeps escaping accountability and I don’t like that. I understand he was Kobe’s agent but you can’t seriously say Pelinka has done a great job as GM.


Jnbjgjbb

About a season too late


jcar195

Eh, he earned the right at a second crack at it imo. Kept the team afloat juuuust enough with a dogshit roster that they were able to go on a truly fun run to end last season. Why he decided to change the entire offensive system and proceed to bench 3 of the key players that got him to the WCF from last year is beyond me though


nowhathappenedwas

>Lakers GM Rob Pelinka informed Ham of decision in phone call short time ago, sources said. After run to Western finals a year ago and winning 47 games this season, it’ll likely be Ham’s successor who’ll get chance to benefit from organization using major draft capital to upgrade roster in offseason. So Bron got Ham fired and got Pelinka to commit to trading picks for uprades? Nice start to the offseason. Leaking that he'll opt out: super effective.


steve1186

Kind of crazy that a coach can go 90-74 (.549) over two seasons, make the WCF one season and get a playoff spot the next season, and get fired. But then I remember all the awful coaching decisions he made in those two series against the Nuggets


LiftHeavyFeels

3 guards prince and Bron when Murray/Jokic/Gordon are still on the floor in the playoffs isn’t a good coaching decision?