Lakers Likely To Hire The Wrong Head Coach
Former Cavs coach Ty Lue is expected to head to LA to reunite with LeBron James.
He’s how twitter is reaching to this awful news for the LA Lakers.
The Lakers are proceeding toward an offer to Ty Lue in the coming days, and have no plans to introduce new candidates into the head coaching search process, league sources tell @ramonashelburne and me.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 3, 2019
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The expectation is the Lakers will move toward Ty Lue as head coach, but there's been no offer made to him yet, league sources tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 3, 2019
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Monty Williams to the Suns and Ty Lue (soon) to the Lakers ... leaving Cleveland and Memphis with the only active coaching searches
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) May 3, 2019
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Once news broke that the Suns hired Monty Williams, the Lakers prepared to reach out to Tyronn Lue. It's been more than a week since his second interview. From me and @ba_turner https://t.co/0afaVG1nvb
— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) May 3, 2019
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Lakers scrambling for their second choice. You hate to see it. https://t.co/19g16i2rBU
— The Bright Side (@BrightSideSun) May 3, 2019
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Ty Lue is in Las Vegas and is waiting to hear from the Lakers about the job, per sources. His reps and the Lakers are supposed to talk today about trying to get a deal done. Lue has always been Lakers top choice, per source.
— Brad Turner (@BA_Turner) May 3, 2019
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Ty Lue and LeBron have spoken within the last few weeks, and of course 23 would welcome a reunion with his coach from the Cavs. But neither LeBron nor Rich Paul told the Lakers whom to hire as coach — per sources
— Joe Vardon (@joevardon) May 3, 2019
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And as we've been saying... this is the move. You have LeBron. You hire Ty Lue. https://t.co/WO1kF6Fx6o
— Adam Schein (@AdamSchein) May 3, 2019
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"The only reason Ty Lue hasn't already been hired as the coach is because the Lakers are foolishly paralyzed by this fear of the optics of it. That's idiotic, you hire the best person for the job and it looks good if they succeed." — @getnickwright pic.twitter.com/ZzSn0fb12A
— First Things First (@FTFonFS1) May 3, 2019
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Overall it seems like it’s the only move the Lakers have at this point. Might not be the best option, but their only option.