Los Angeles Lakers Name Milwaukee Bucks Assistant Darvin Ham As New Coach

The Related Press is reporting that Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Darvin Ham would be the subsequent Los Angeles Lakers coach.

The AP quoted somebody “with data of the choice” on the announcement. The report stated Ham has accepted a proposal, however didn’t reveal phrases. He replaces Frank Vogel, who was fired on the finish of the season after the Lakers didn’t make the playoffs.

The 48-year-old Ham will develop into the twenty eighth coach in Lakers historical past. He has by no means been a head coach, however was an assistant on the Milwaukee Bucks since 2018, together with that staff’s 2021 NBA title run. .

Final yr’s Lakers staff went 33-49, a serious disappointment think about the staff had aligned a “Massive Three” by importing guard Russell Westbrook to hitch LeBron James and Anthony Davis.

James has already welcomed Ham by way of social media. “So rattling EXCITED!!!!!!!!” James tweeted. “Congrats and welcome Coach DHam!!”

Ham was a participant growth assistant coach with Kobe Bryant’s Lakers from 2011-13 on the staffs of head coaches Mike Brown and Mike D’Antoni. Ham then had a five-year stint on the Atlanta Hawks’ workers beneath Mike Budenholzer, later becoming a member of him on Milwaukee’s workers.