Lakers Announce Big Coaching News Amid Quiet Offseason

The Los Angeles Lakers have frustrated their fanbase with their lack of action this offseason. They went after free agent and trade targets but failed to make any improvements to the roster. This caused a ton of anger among Lakers fans who expect championship contention from their teams. The Lakers' decision to bring back the same team that lost in the first round last season isn't exactly what many had hoped.

At the same time, it is not all doom and gloom in Lakerland. JJ Redick took over from Darvin Ham, guaranteeing LeBron James stayed for at least another year. Despite understandable concerns about Redick's lack of experience as a head coach, the Lakers have done an excellent job surrounding him with high-level assistants. In fact, the team announced the official coaching staff on Monday and it is one of the most experienced groups in the NBA.

Lakers News: LA Announces Stacked Assistant Staff Around Head Coach JJ Redick

The headliners on the staff are Scott Brooks and Nate McMillan. McMillan has 19 seasons of head coaching experience between four teams while Brooks has 12, including a trip to the NBA Finals and a Coach of the Year award.

Bob Beyer similarly has over two decades of assistant coaching experience in the NBA. Lindsey Harding just won the G League Coach of the Year award in her first season as a head coach and is considered one of the rising stars in coaching.

Greg St. Jean, Beau Levesque, and Michael Wexler round out the rest of Redick's staff. What the former Duke star lacks in coaching experience, his staff more than makes up for it. Whether this experiment succeeds in getting the Lakers back to serious Western Conference contention remains to be seen.

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