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The Los Angeles Clippers are hiring Tyronn Lue as their new head coach, according to two people with knowledge of the deal.
The Clippers on Wednesday were finalizing a five-year contract with Lue to install him as the successor to Doc Rivers, according to the people, who were not authorized to discuss the deal publicly. Lue was en route to Los Angeles, one of the people said, after spending the past three days in Houston interviewing for the Rockets’ coaching vacancy.
Lue spent the past season as the top assistant on Rivers’s staff after negotiations for him to become the Los Angeles Lakers’ head coach collapsed in May 2019.