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Welcome to our annual Lakers season in review series, where we'll be taking a look back at every player on the team's roster this season, evaluating their ...

And with a lot of ground to make up towards creating something that does, the Lakers simply can’t start next season in a team-building hole. With the timer on LeBron’s window of contention running down, the Lakers can’t afford to burn a season with a retread of something they know doesn’t work. This year, Westbrook conceded some of his past playmaking duties to LeBron James, recording five fewer assists per 100 possessions than he did in DC, but took nearly as many shots and turned the ball over almost as much, making him one of the league’s least efficient players. He has proved in the past that when flanked by elite shooting and a rim-runner, he can offset some of his scoring inefficiencies by feeding his teammates a steady diet of great looks to generate decently efficient offense. Only Westbrook can know whether his performance stemmed from a desire to dribble to the tune of his own drum or an inability to perceive basketball geometry without catalyzing the offense himself. When Westbrook came over to apologize to LeBron and AD during a game due to being benched down the stretch, they shook their heads and said nothing.

Jeanie Buss says the conversation about Russell Westbrook's fit with the Los Angeles Lakers is premature until the team hires a coach.

It will be up to the coach to find that and for Westbrook to accept it, and whether that comes with the Lakers or elsewhere is still up in the air. It would be pretty difficult, however, to find a lot of evidence that the James, Westbrook, Davis trio can work based on last season. Depending on the style of play that that coach wants to play, given the roster that we have, it all has to start to come together.”

Terry Stotts is among the list of candidates who have formally interviewed for the Lakers head coaching job.

After team owner Jeanie Buss confirmed to Bill Plaschke that she's leaning on former Lakers coach Phil Jackson to help the team bounce back after a ...

“We don’t like to be missing the playoffs, I understand the fans anger and frustration,” said Buss. “I’ve got to make it better. “Something that I learned from Phil Jackson is that there’s always a path to success. “I’ve just heard that but I’ve got nothing to back that up.

“According to Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times, former Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson would like to see LeBron James traded from the team.” ...

Perhaps the only thing that would prevent Westbrook from being traded is if the team’s next head coach has a plan for making its offense work with him and makes a powerful plea to management to keep him on the roster. “According to Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times, former Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson would like to see LeBron James traded from the team.” Phil Jackson, the legendary head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers who guided them to five NBA championships in the 2000s, is reportedly advising his old team in its search for a new coach.

The HBO series 'Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty' made some fascinating moves in its debut season, but in the end, it was no match for the ...

As we barrel through the finals and zero in on the Lakers’ eventual triumph, the show becomes increasingly conventional, doubling back way too hard toward the underdog-sports-flick component of its DNA. The interesting work the show had been doing with its characters is pushed to the side in order to give this fictional iteration of the Showtime Lakers the glory that syncs them up with the image held by their real-world counterparts. One of the more compelling things about Winning Time is its commitment to going the distance on those hard edges. On the one hand, there’s been a hard-fought decades-long shift in narrative control away from the sports media and toward the athletes themselves, which has generally been a good thing, especially when it comes to the dynamic between athletes of color and sports media, historically white. I was also particularly taken by the show’s conception of Jack McKinney, the ideological architect of the fast and fluid Showtime play style who never made it to the end of that breakout 1979-1980 season. Winning Time makes the case for its existence by focusing on the subjective experience of the era. Most of the time, shows answer this question simply by filling in the blanks: Here’s what you don’t remember, here’s what you didn’t know, isn’t that crazy?

The Los Angeles Lakers have reportedly requested permission to speak with Bucks assistant Charles Lee for the team's head coach opening.

Perhaps Lee is just who the Lakers need to lead them into the next 5-10 years. Per The Athletic's Shams Charania, "The Lakers have requested permission to interview Milwaukee Bucks assistant Charles Lee for their head coaching job." As the Los Angeles Lakers continue the search for their next head coach, the team reportedly put out a formal request to interview a member of the defending NBA champs.

The Athletic's Shams Charania reports that the Lakers front office has added Milwaukee Bucks assistant Charles Lee to their coaching candidate list.

The search, purportedly led by general manager Rob Pelinka, not Jeanie Buss whisperer Phil Jackson or senior basketball adviser Kurt Rambis, has been labeled as slow, deliberate approach. Lee played for four years at Bucknell (2002-2006) and was the 2005-2006 Patriot League player of the year. The Lakers already have one Bucks assistant on their ever-growing list of coaching candidates.

Charles Lee becomes the second Milwaukee Bucks assistant that the Los Angeles Lakers are reportedly looking to interview during their coaching search.

He’s also the fourth assistant coach — joining Ham, Atkinson and Adrian Griffin — the team has reached out to. This offseason, Lee has interviewed with the Hornets for their coaching vacancy but was more notably considered one of the frontrunners for the Pelicans head coach position last offseason. Such is the case in the NBA circa 2022, where owners and front offices increasingly favor those who have an NBA entry on Basketball Reference.

Ethan Strauss of Substack had some information from an ESPN The Magazine story about Mark Jackson that was never published.

Assuming the report is true, it should definitely give the Lakers pause in potentially hiring Jackson. Beyond Strauss' report, Jackson frequently clashed with Warriors upper management. Strauss stated the story contained the following: Jackson, who's currently a broadcaster for ESPN, has been out of the NBA since 2014.

Before the Los Angeles Lakers can hire a new head coach to replace Frank Vogel, they are conducting interviews with a number of different candidates.

One possibility is that the Lakers may want to add Lee as an assistant if they hire Ham as head coach. Lee becomes the second Bucks assistant the Lakers have requested to interview with Ham being the first. The Lakers have requested permission to interview Milwaukee Bucks assistant Charles Lee for their head coaching job, sources tell@TheAthletic @Stadium.

“Sometimes it's takes the second time around for you to have success” - Shannon Sharpe endorses former Warriors coach for the LA Lakers coaching job, says Doc ...

The LA Lakers will have the undivided attention of fans this summer. Players such as Russell Westbrook and Anthony Davis will be popular names to monitor throughout the offseason as well. The first order of business is finding a new head coach.

For years, Patrick Beverley was the face of the Clippers. He was the anti-Laker, and public enemy number one of the Lakers. He got under the skin of both ...

Unless the Wolves decide to trade Beverley next season, it'll be tough to see him play with Lebron and the Lakers next year. The entire NBA is a spectacle, and the fans are getting pulled along by their strings. Beverley is very openly appreciated and widely regarded as the heart of the Minnesota Timberwolves, so the team would have to be tremendously struggling to trade him.