Just a couple of weeks ago, it appeared that the Lakers firing Frank Vogel was somewhere between “inevitability” and “formality,” especially when a torrent of rumors came flooding out through the media that his seat was white-hot and Vogel uncharacteristically dissed Russell Westbrook after an embarrassing loss to the Indiana Pacers last week.
While the pressure on Vogel appears to have (somewhat surprisingly) subsided, and he is now expected to remain with the Lakers through at least the rest of the season, another interesting twist in this whole saga is who would have replaced him on the bench had Vogel indeed been fired.