The Los Angeles Lakers have reportedly hired Milwaukee Bucks assistant Darvin Ham as their next coach, and the timing of the news was interesting.
With this gig, Ham will become a first-time head coach, so it’s hard to make an assessment one way or another about how he will impact the team from a schematic perspective.
The hire wasn’t particularly surprising. As we wrote earlier this month, he was emerging as a favorite for the job. The Lakers tend to hire folks with connections to the organization, and Ham was an assistant coach and thus has prior history with ownership and other important decision-makers.
