Before Luke Walton and the Los Angeles Lakers parted ways, there were some reported concerns from on high about the coaching staff he put together. Given how uninspiring that group was, those reports made sense.
Well, they made sense until Wednesday night, when we found out — via Bill Oram of The Athletic — who exactly it was that Lakers management wanted to add to Walton’s bench:
They tried to foist Kidd on Lue as an assistant coach, rather than give him the latitude to assemble a staff of his choosing.