Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles — The job, as much as it is anything else, requires a coach to stand next to LeBron James, a player who has been one of basketball’s most famous since he was in high school, and forge a partnership.
So, naturally, the Lakers went and hired Darvin Ham, who spent most his one-year high school basketball career on the bench.
“I didn’t know him,” former Saginaw High coach Marshall Thomas said with a laugh.
That Ham struggled to make the team at Saginaw High and still has come so far speaks to an essential part of his character — his relentlessness.