Miles Simon is one step closer to another championship.
The Los Angeles Lakers finished off the Denver Nuggets on Saturday to advance to the 2020 NBA Finals. Simon, the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player in Arizona’s 1997 national championship run, is in his third year as an assistant coach with the Lakers, mostly serving in a player development role.
He is the only coach left over from the Luke Walton era. First-year head coach Frank Vogel retained Simon when the Lakers fired Walton after the 2018-19 season.