The Los Angeles Lakers formally introduced their full teaching workers for the 2024-25 season on Monday, as head coach JJ Redick will probably be joined by six assistants. The workers consists of veterans Nate McMillan and Scott Brooks, and the primary feminine coach in franchise historical past, Lindsey Harding.
Here is a take a look at the total group:
After a 15-year profession, Redick retired in 2021 and rapidly turned probably the most revered members of the media. Maybe most notably, he began a podcast with LeBron James in March, entitled “Thoughts the Recreation,” which garnered terrific opinions. He was capable of parlay his on-air success, and friendship with James, into the Lakers job regardless of no earlier teaching expertise.
Redick is beginning his teaching profession by leaping straight into the deep finish, and the way he’ll fare stays to be seen. What we do know is that he has a excessive basketball IQ, embraces analytics and has James’ belief, which is perhaps a very powerful issue of all.
- Assistant coach: Nate McMillan
McMillan has over twenty years of teaching expertise with 4 completely different franchises, and was most just lately the pinnacle coach of the Atlanta Hawks from 2021-23. As a fellow former participant who made the transition to the sidelines, he figures to play a significant function in serving to Redick study the ropes.
- Assistant coach: Scott Brooks
Like McMillan, Brooks is an NBA lifer who brings an enormous quantity of data and expertise to the desk. He had his finest run as the pinnacle coach of the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder from 2008-15 and was most just lately working as an assistant for the Portland Path Blazers.
- Assistant coach: Bob Beyer
Beyer bought his begin as a coach on the collegiate degree manner again in 1983, and although he has by no means been a head coach within the NBA, he is been an assistant within the league for over twenty years, working with eight franchises alongside the way in which. He’s one more veteran presence for Redick to lean on.
- Assistant coach: Greg St. Jean
When the Lakers gained the championship within the bubble in 2020, St. Jean was an participant improvement coach beneath Frank Vogel. Now, he is again to work alongside Redick. Including somebody who has expertise working with the group and a number of gamers on the roster, together with James and Anthony Davis, is a great transfer.
- Assistant coach: Lindsey Harding
Harding and Redick each starred at Duke within the mid-2000s, and now they will reunite on the Lakers. After a protracted WNBA profession, Harding has labored her manner up the teaching ranks and was named G League Coach of the 12 months final season for her work with the Stockton Kings. She is the first feminine coach in Lakers historical past.
- Assistant coach: Beau Levesque
Following a short-lived abroad profession, Levesque entered the teaching world and was most just lately the participant improvement coordinator for the Los Angeles Clippers. Redick has famous that he desires participant improvement to be a key focus of his tenure, and Levesque will probably be on the heart of that mission.
The Lakers are coming off a disappointing season through which they earned the No. 7 seed within the Western Convention playofs by way of the Play-In Event, and had been eradicated within the first spherical by the Denver Nuggets. The early exit sealed Darvin Ham’s destiny, and he was fired after two seasons in cost.
Redick will take over largely the identical roster from final season, and will probably be charged with turning the Lakers again right into a contender within the loaded Western Convention.
