Sources – Lakers hiring JJ Redick to four-year deal to coach team

The Los Angeles Lakers have agreed to a four-year contract with JJ Redick to make him the franchise’s subsequent coach, sources informed ESPN on Thursday.

Redick, an ESPN NBA analyst who performed 15 years within the league, met with Lakers vice chairman and common supervisor Rob Pelinka and proprietor Jeanie Buss over the weekend, and conversations on the emptiness continued all through the week, sources mentioned.

Pelinka supplied Redick the job Thursday morning, sources mentioned.

Pelinka turned bought on Redick’s skill to attach with gamers and his basketball IQ and believes surrounding Redick with an elite teaching employees will assist shorten his studying curve into his first teaching job, sources mentioned.

Redick moved into the forefront of the search per week in the past after the Lakers’ pursuit of Connecticut coach Dan Hurley was finally rebuffed.

The Lakers supplied Hurley a six-year, $70 million contract that he turned down early final week, sources mentioned.

As Pelinka sought with Hurley, he nonetheless desires a educating coach and employees who will prioritize the event of younger gamers reminiscent of Max Christie, Austin Reaves and Rui Hachimura and may design a inventive method to that includes Anthony Davis on each ends of the ground, sources mentioned.

Redick has a robust relationship with Lakers star LeBron James, with whom he co-hosts a basketball podcast.