One of the criticisms directed at the Los Angeles Lakers has been the meddlesome manner in which the front office runs the team.
Some of that criticism surrounds Kurt Rambis, who is L.A.’s senior basketball adviser.
This season, he reportedly sat in on Frank Vogel’s coaching meetings, and he reportedly insisted on deciding who the team’s coaching candidates could hire to be their assistants in 2019.
But perhaps Rambis and the rest of the front office are starting to learn from their mistakes.
According to NBA insider Marc Stein, Rambis will not be sitting in on new head coach Darvin Ham’s meetings.
Via The Stein Line:
“According to the buzz in NBA coaching circles over the weekend, Ham has likewise been promised the autonomy to pick his coaching staff and is said to have received assurances that Lakers senior advisor Kurt Rambis will not be a regular presence in coaching meetings like he was with Vogel. If those promises come to fruition and Ham actually receives all that latitude, they will rank as significant concessions secured by a first-time NBA head coach.”
The fact Rambis will reportedly back off despite the fact Ham has never been an NBA head coach before seems to speak to how impressed the Lakers were with him during interviews.
