Adrian Wojnarowski on Hurley/Lakers 

Stephen A you clearly didnt watch lakers games if you defend ham. Stop talking about things you dont know about!

Stability and a solid program at the coaching slot will do wonders for the Lakers new vision. This is how the team begins a new chapter and evolve with how the NBA meta changes around them. I love that Coach K is whispering his ideas to the Lakers brass. (I am assuming) and is worth a handsome advisory role salary if this is the case. 100% worth it too. This is how the Lakers Org will eventually take the Championship tally lead regardless what happens this year.

Stephen A doesn’t follow the lakers as much as laker fans to know the coaching flaws of Mr. Ham. The Lakers went to the western conference finals due to the talents of the Lakers more than coaching…

These guys could talk about this for the next 13 hours, and it would still be speculative talk. Here's the truth, NOBODY KNOWS, but Hurley and his wife.

Last year it was Darvin 🍔 and D-Low holding the Lakers back, this year D-Low showed up in 3 games against Denver, so it was just Darvin 🍔

It's easy to tell the difference between when Stephen A is reading a teleprompter and speaking freely. Regarding Hurley coach the Lakers, they will be better with him. I think he could help take them to a new level.

Ima just say this jj redick don’t deserve this job

if they want hurley, they should try to convince jj to be an assistant. best of both worlds? gives jj the experience he lacks for a resume and he still gets to be in a major market without having to be the scapegoat. lakers can still benefit from his player experience and knowledge. he'll then be primed for coach anywhere else.

This situation is so weird

Won’t matter who the coach is.. untill players change n or retire it’s a play in for the next couple of years

More people are interested in who will be the next lakers coach than the nba finals lol. F boston

Why does this guy keep acting like Darvin ham was a good coach, that conference finals was Lebron, and ad some games, I can promise you he won’t get another head coach job lol

How is JJ a legitimate contender? Never been a coach before. Why no discussion of Mark Jackson? He is the most qualified among the available coaches

What I am so focused on is the concerted effort by Woj and SAS to shift the narrative that the lakers ALWAYS wanted Hurley. It’s like Jeanie told them to go out there and get that message across

I can’t believe first take spent the majority of their show on day 1 of the nba finals talking about this…I hope they don’t do this again Monday.

Why doesn't anyone talk about the possibility that the Lakers use Hurley as leverage against JJ Redick? He only now surfaces as a candidate after it looked like it would be JJ. Maybe JJ was asking for more salary and years than the Lakers want to offer

WHEN STEPHEN A SMITH GETS FIRED FROM ESPN..IT WILL BE A CELEBRATION

Now it's The National Basketball Association? I get Wojnis the source of information when it comes to coaching in the NBA, and the pressure that comes with it. The Lakers are up there, but the Yankees, and especially the Cowboys are franchises that have large fan bases along with high expectations year after year. So IMO Woj should stick to the NBA about coaching the Lakers.

It’s gotta be a 10 yr deal or something like that…

I think if its not hurley its reddick i feel its down to those 2

My whole thought process is that he's gonna stay with Uconn. I think he fully would love to take the Lakers job and Lakers will offer him a ton of money and chance to be coach of storied most popular NBA franchise etc and all that but he's close with his family and his wife likes the east coast and so does his parents who he's close too. If they don't want to move it'll be very hard for me to see him prying them away from that.

Hurley with LeBron James - seems a bad match. Hurley should wait until LeBron departs the LA Lakers.

If Hurley doesn’t get hired and we hire JJ reddick im gonna be pissed off

Dan Hurley head coach and JJ Redick assistant head coach

We need to rebuild and actually trust our players instead of chasing washed up ppl, we always won through the draft! Ppl forget, and then sign a star player.

Hurley should consider jack mccloskeys career. Success to him came through roster building in Detroit . Not in coaching the blazers or Lakers. To date DH has had control over two of the legs of the 3 legged stool. Ie coaching and roster development. Moving to Lakers from college he gives up the more important latter. And even getting veto power in the draft trade roster development does not guarantee success. See, Pitino and celtics. The player "will if I want to league " is the third leg. And about building confidence and trust with TALENT . BRAD STEPHENS GOT OUT OF COACHING .

The Lakers don't want Coach Hurley to tie Coach Wooden's three-peat record.

If Lebron stays, Dan Hurley will be his 11th coach fired to make his GOAT case.

Dan Hurley should stay with UCONN and try to win 1-2 more titles. Once LeDiva leaves Lakers in two years-three years, then he should go to the Lakers.

No way i would coach the lakers, if i could coach another team. To much scapegoating in the lakers organisation, and it is my team.

IF JASON TATUM STARTS SHOOTING MID RANGE JUMPERS HE WOULD BE UNSTOPPABLE!!!

Ya this is old. This was Friday but got 45min ago bottom. Clickbait

Y'all gotta be simple minded to believe this, its nothing more than a smoke screen. It will be JJ Reddick because thats what LeGM wants. They're gonna draft Bronny and the circus that is the Lakers will continue for the 2024 season. Go get your popcorn............its entertainment at this point, not winning!

Laker fans should be more focused on the new Players they’re gonna get more than the Coach

lakers should hired not hired j j redick as the lakers coach hired a coach for anthony davis not lebron james

A New Jersey guy whose loud and unapologetic.Talk about a bad fit with slick L.A. phonies.

Steven shut up if you don't know what is happening, i thought you said lebron James was running the Lakers that he fired his coach and want his friend to be the coach

How does this makes any sense with LeCoach Killer? Oh it makes sense now… If everything goes wrong then they can blame Dan Hurley

Wrong move. You want Bron as your Boss?

GO & WATCH TRAVIS & SLIWA THEY ARE LIVE NOT ABOUT THE DECISION OF HURLEY NOT TO TAKE THE COACHING JOB OF THE LAKERS

haha finals week and almost evrybdy is talkin about the lakeshow😎😎😎

Once again LeBron needs a coach yet nobody with an established resume wants the job. This isn't about who the Lakers WANT its about who will take the job. Anyone?

Good Sunday morning 🌄 @stephenasmith 😊

Yeah him and other defending Ham only talk about oh his team made it to the west finals just last year. Watch him!!! Don’t watch the results. David Blatt took his team to the finals and next season was first in the east half way through the season and got fired and no team ever even interviewed him for a job again. Because people watch and know it wasn’t because of him they were successful. Ham wasn’t good and you will see no other team will hire Ham again

He’s not gonna take that job till after LeBron is gone if he was smart

Insider Laughable, "a real possibility" that says nothing.

This video is old 😂

Jayson Tatum aka Jyle Tatumhan Instead of Kyle Shanahan hahahah I never seen a bigger choker than Tatum, embarrassing to watch.

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please Repent to the Most High of the Bible of all sin please see if you have African American heritage on your dads side you can be Afro-Latino/a or from the Indigenous/Native American people a Israelite (the people of the Most High) in the Bible please repent and follow/read the Bible and all the laws statues and Commandments of the Most High please repent and stop this the Most High loves you!! follow the Most High in the name of the Messiah in the Bible 🙏🏽 Repent for all sins and never sin again, follow the Word Laws Statues & Commandments of the Most High in the Bible 🙏🏽 if you are a Hebrew Israelite (the ppl of the Most High, African Americans Afro-Latino, Indigenous/Native American/Seminole Indians) 🙏🏽 All Praise & Glory to the Most High in the name of the Messiah in the Bible, follow the Most High & all His word/commandments if You are a Hebrew Israelite (the ppl of the Most High, African Americans, Afro-Latino, Indigenous/Native American/Seminole Indians) 🙏🏽

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Stephen A Smith will be defending Darvin Ham til his dying days...lol

Stephen A. Imma need you to stop talking about the fucking lakers my guy. It abundantly clear that you didn't watch many Lakers' games this last season cuz if you did you would not be defend Darvin Scam as much as you have been. Darvin was a nice guy but lets be honest the man couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper bag, the only reason the dude has a winning record as a coach is because of the trade the lakers made to get Westbrook tf outta Lakerland, LeBron James at 39 years old is unbelievably good still and Anthony Davis is a defensive god. If he didn't have the two superstar caliber players and the good role players then that western conference finals appearance would have never happened, and that's Darvin's crowning moment as a coach losing in the western conference finals. I can't wait for Darvin to get another job as a coach somewhere else so you people in the basketball media can finally open your damn eyes and realize he's not a good coach

I wouldn't want the job of being the Lakers HC the average coach isn't being long-term HC last coach to do so was Phil Jackson held longest tenure as Lakers HC. The biggest issue is Rob Palinka has been the worst GM for the Lakers at least Jerry Buss was the better the GM than that even when the Lakers had Mitch Kupchak as an GM he made good moves to improve this team, Jennie Buss and Rob together don't function well as GM to make this team competitive enough.

Mr. Hurley takes the Lakers coaching position he will be gone in 2 years.

All this praise for woj because the lakers told him theyre trying to go for a coach whose never coached in the nba ? Lol

Who cares? I'm so tired of hearing about the Lakers and their annual search for relevance. They could have had Ty Lue but weren't smart enough to figure out that he was a good coach. Now they wander around in stumblebum city more desperate by the moment. Good job Lakers.

who cares...

If bronny becomes a bust its gonna be blamed on the college coach's failed development program