JJ Redick will formally interview for the Los Angeles Lakers’ teaching job this weekend, and a powerful efficiency is anticipated to maneuver him to the forefront of the franchise’s search, sources informed ESPN.
Redick, an ESPN NBA analyst who performed 15 years within the league, had a 90-plus-minute go to with Lakers vice chairman and normal supervisor Rob Pelinka final month on the Chicago draft mix. Now, a visit to Los Angeles will go far deeper into element on the job and the conferences will embrace Pelinka and proprietor Jeanie Buss, sources stated.
Pelinka and Redick have talked on the cellphone in latest days, and Redick understands and accepts Pelinka’s prolonged pursuit of Connecticut coach Dan Hurley that originally stalled Redick’s candidacy, sources stated.
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The Lakers provided Hurley a six-year, $70 million contract that he turned down Monday, sources stated.
As New Orleans Pelicans assistant James Borrego’s candidacy features traction in Cleveland, Redick has an opportunity to make his case in an all-day session with Pelinka, Buss and different senior decision-makers in Los Angeles, sources stated.
As Pelinka did with Hurley, he nonetheless needs a educating coach and workers who will prioritize the event of younger gamers akin to Max Christie, Austin Reaves and Rui Hachimura and might design a inventive method to that includes Anthony Davis on each ends of the ground, sources stated. Redick has a powerful relationship with Lakers star LeBron James, with whom he co-hosts a basketball podcast.
Redick is the lead analyst for ESPN’s sport protection and is at the moment working the Boston Celtics-Dallas Mavericks NBA Finals sequence.
