Lakers News: LA Set to Interview Another Milwaukee Bucks Assistant; Charles Lee

The Lakers have already got one Bucks assistant on their ever-growing record of teaching candidates. Along with Darvin Ham, The Athletic’s Shams Charania experiences that the Lakers entrance workplace has been granted permission to interview Bucks assistant coach Charles Lee.

Lee performed for 4 years at Bucknell (2002-2006) and was the 2005-2006 Patriot League participant of the 12 months. The 6’4″ guard helped lead the 14-seed Buffaloes to a stunning first-round upset of the 3-seed Kansas Jayhawks within the 2005 NCAA match. 

Sadly, Lee by no means performed an everyday season recreation within the NBA after his faculty profession. He performed skilled basketball in Israel, Belgium, and Germany earlier than hanging it up.

Like Ham, Lee has been a mainstay on Mike Budenholzer’s staffs courting again to Coach Bud’s time in Atlanta and extra just lately, the defending champion Bucks. Lee has served as an assistant on Budenholzer’s staffs for the reason that 2014-2015 season.

For essentially the most half, Budenholzer’s teaching tree has been largely profitable. Quin Snyder, Taylor Jenkins, and Kenny Atkinson have all produced some degree of success as head coaches within the NBA.

As has been famous time and time once more, the Lakers aren’t in a rush to ink a brand new head coach. The search, purportedly led by basic supervisor Rob Pelinka, not Jeanie Buss whisperer Phil Jackson or senior basketball adviser Kurt Rambis, has been labeled as sluggish, deliberate strategy.

Different candidates which have been recognized to have interviewed with the Lakers entrance workplace embrace: Ham, Raptors assistant Adrian Griffin, longtime Blazers head coach Terry Stotts, and Mark Jackson.

Lakers followers are hoping that slow-playing the rent leads to inking the perfect candidate for a group coming into a pivotal offseason.