Luke Walton has spent much of this season and basically all of the games since the All-Star break seen as a lame duck head coach. Magic Johnson reportedly berated him seven games into the season. The year before, when LaVar Ball was still allowed near microphones, he took his shots with no response from the Lakers other than a couple tweets from Jeanie Buss.
Walton has also been at the helm of one of the more disappointing Lakers teams in recent memory, is one of a select few coaches who watched from the sidelines as LeBron James missed the playoffs and consistently relied on Tyler Ennis or Rajon Rondo when new cult hero Alex Caruso was sitting right there.