The Los Angeles Lakers somehow avoided losing any assistant coaches when they won a championship during the 2019-20 season, which is a very rare and fortunate occurrence. However, it appears their luck has run out, as Jason Kidd was recently hired to be the next head coach of the Dallas Mavericks.
Now that Kidd is gone, the Lakers will need to begin a search to find a new lead assistant. Meanwhile, Kidd will need to create an entire coaching staff from scratch with the Mavericks. Normally, when a new head coach gets hired, they’ll assemble a staff of people they trust and have worked with in the past, meaning Kidd could look to L.