The Los Angeles Lakers have employed Lindsey Harding as an assistant coach for JJ Redick’s workers, in keeping with Adrian Wojnarowski. Harding would be the first lady to educate for the Lakers and be part of Jenny Boucek (Pacers), Brittni Donaldson (Hawks) and Sonia Raman (Grizzlies) as girls actively on NBA teaching staffs. 

Harding was named G League Coach of the Yr final season for her work with the Stockton Kings, the Sacramento Kings’ affiliate. In her first season within the function, Harding led the Kings to the No. 1 seed within the Western Convention and an look within the semifinals of the G League playoffs. 

After a disappointing first-round exit final season, the Lakers fired Darvin Ham and employed Redick as their new head coach in June although he had no earlier teaching expertise. Within the time since, he has began to construct out his workers with numerous veterans, together with long-time NBA head coaches Nate McMillan and Scott Brooks. He additionally introduced again Greg St. Jean, who was beforehand an assistant with the Lakers beneath Frank Vogel. 

Redick and Harding had been each at Duke as gamers on the identical time from 2002-06, and reconnected in Philadelphia a decade later when Redick performed for the 76ers and Harding labored as a participant growth coach for the group. 

Throughout her taking part in days, Harding was named Naismith Participant of the Yr in 2007 earlier than changing into the No. 1 general decide within the 2007 WNBA Draft. She spent 9 seasons within the league with six groups, and in addition performed abroad in numerous international locations, most notably Turkey. 

After retiring in 2017, Harding was employed by the Sixers as a scout, changing into the primary black lady to carry that job on a full-time foundation within the NBA, then later grew to become a participant growth coach. In 2019, she was employed by the Kings as an assistant coach and had been with the group ever since. 

Along with her NBA and G League work, she was briefly the top coach of South Sudan’s girls’s nationwide workforce and is presently the top coach of Mexico’s girls’s nationwide workforce. 

Earlier this 12 months, Harding interviewed for the Charlotte Hornets’ head teaching emptiness, however the job in the end went to Charles Lee.