Having LeBron James’ visible support at the outset is a good sign for a first-time head coach stepping into one of the most prestigious jobs in any sport.
coast to coast plus Alaska and Hawaii. The next best? The Celtics with six, all in the New England states.
Hardly scientific, true. But the point is that where there’s interest, there’s scrutiny, most specifically in L.A. Good thing, then, that Ham is reportedly getting that four-year contract. It provides some runway that he’ll need, because the roster construction problems that bedeviled the Lakers last season haven’t disappeared.
Notably, as of 9:30 Friday night there wasn’t yet a welcoming tweet from @russwest44, Russell Westbrook’s blue-checkmarked Twitter page. Westbrook is expected to pick up his $47.1 million player option for 2022-23 by the June 29 deadline, at which point the Lakers will have to determine if their marquee acquisition of last summer fits into this summer’s vision.
Issues remain. The players who were complementary pieces to a championship team in 2000 had scattered by last season, with people like Alex Caruso and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Markieff Morris and Kyle Kuzma replaced by veterans who in several cases didn’t have as much left in them as they thought they had. The Lakers couldn’t stay healthy, they didn’t mesh when they were healthy, and Frank Vogel took the fall.That said, there is reason to believe in this move.
Ham played eight seasons in the NBA, and in fact, the @ESPNNBA account tweeted out a picture of Ham guarding James during a game in 2004.
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