Bill Plaschke: He might be a longshot, but Doc Rivers still Lakers' best shot for coach
LOS ANGELES — So, the Lakers floated their three leading candidates for coach to the media this week as a sort of trial balloon. Terry Stotts! Kenny Atkinson! Darvin Ham! Pssssssst. The news fell flatter than a Russell Westbrook jump shot. The options quickly lost all air, the shriveled remains floating harmlessly into the cluttered mess that is the Lakers' summer landscape. Seriously? That's ...
by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
May 21, 2022
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES — So, the Lakers floated their three leading candidates for coach to the media this week as a sort of trial balloon.
Terry Stotts! Kenny Atkinson! Darvin Ham!
Pssssssst.
The news fell flatter than a Russell Westbrook jump shot. The options quickly lost all air, the shriveled remains floating harmlessly into the cluttered mess that is the Lakers' summer landscape.
Seriously? That's all you've got? It's considered a soft coaching market, and the Lakers are considered a hard sell, but still … that's it?
Terry Stotts? Wonderful man, great tactician, but across 13 NBA seasons in Atlanta, Milwaukee and
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