Last we heard, Rob Pelinka was conducting interviews for the Los Angeles Lakers prospective head coaching search. He was granted permission to meet with Philadelphia 76ers assistant Monty Williams and Miami Heat assistant Juwan Howard, and obviously didn’t it need it for free agent coach Tyronn Lue.
Williams and Lue appear to be frontrunners for their own reasons but in each case, the Lakers might be running into a fairly embarrassing problem: People close to both former head coaches are being advised to stay away from this organization given how chaotic things appear to be.