According to NBA insider Jovan Buha of The Athletic, the Los Angeles Lakers will fire Darvin Ham as head coach “by the end of the week.” The Lakers lost to the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the 2024 playoffs. The Lakers went 47-35 in the regular season.
From LeBron James’ and D’Angelo Russell’s contract decisions to Darvin Ham’s future with the organization, here are the five biggest questions facing the Lakers heading into the offseason.
James — who has a reputation for being hard on head coaches — has averaged a new HC every 2.6 seasons.
It has been an up-and-down two seasons for Darvin Ham as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, to say the least. There have been some rough stretches, but also some great successes.
Magic Johnson lives and breathes Los Angeles Lakers. The five-time NBA champion and showrunner of the Showtime Lakers is always involving himself when it comes to anything and everything Lakers.
Barkley is tired of everyone making Ham the fall guy for the Lakers' first-round loss to the Nuggets.
Someone has to take the blame for the Los Angeles Lakers’ disastrous season. Unfortunately for head coach Darvin Ham, that someone appears to be him. The 50-year-old just completed his second season with the Lakers, and now that he’s seen by many as the logical scapegoat, it appears that this may have been his last.
Since the arrival of LeBron James in the Los Angeles Lakers, the goal has been to win multiple NBA championships. The Purple and Gold managed to win one title under LeBron’s reign; however, they never followed up on another.
Second-year Los Angeles Lakers head coach Darvin Ham offered up a surprisingly brutal appraisal of an unnamed starter after his Purple and Gold squad had been officially eliminated from the 2024 postseason.
LeBron James’ 16-year-old son Bryce James drew attention when a TikTok video was reposted to his page that trolled Los Angeles Lakers head coach Darvin Ham after the team’s season-ending loss to the Denver Nuggets in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series Monday night.
One constant criticism this season about Los Angeles Lakers coach Darvin Ham was the constant changes to his lineups and rotations. The Lakers had 19 different starting lineups this season and of course injuries played a role in that, but some of the decisions Ham made still came under a lot of scrutiny.
There are a lot of questions surrounding the Los Angeles Lakers now that their season has ended thanks to the Denver Nuggets and another Jamal Murray buzzer-beater.
LeBron James' youngest son, Bryce James, has taken a shot at Los Angeles Lakers head coach Darvin Ham on TikTok. Bryce reposted a video that showed Ham
Redick is a hot name regarding NBA coaching vacancies, and one league insider floated an interesting possible landing spot for the former sharpshooter.
With their heartbreaking Game 5 loss to the Denver Nuggets, the Los Angeles Lakers were officially eliminated from the postseason for the second straight year in disappointing fashion.
The bottom line is this: The Lakers feel Ham needed to make the most of what he had, and that he wasn’t doing that.
The Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the 2024 NBA playoffs and all signs point toward head coach Darvin Ham getting fired. A source told Hoops Wire that Lakers players “are done” with Ham. “Darvin is likely getting fired,” the source said.
Reports of an imminent divorce between the Los Angeles Lakers and Darvin Ham multiplied on Tuesday in the aftermath of the season-ending loss to the Denver Nuggets.
Darvin Ham‘s position with the Lakers is reportedly in “serious peril” following the team’s elimination from the playoffs on Monday.
The topic of Darvin Ham’s future came up time and again throughout the Lakers’ season. Now—after a first-round exit to the Nuggets sent them home empty-handed—insider
The Los Angeles Lakers’ 2023-24 season ended similarly to last year, and it sounds like it might cost their coach his job.
The Lakers’ season ended on Monday night in Denver, and Darvin Ham’s run as the head coach of the team may have as well.
The Los Angeles Lakers are “highly unlikely” to retain Darvin Ham as coach after the team suffered its second straight playoff exit at the hands of the Denver Nuggets, per Shams Charania, Jovan Buha and Sam Amick of The Athletic.
In the aftermath of their elimination from the NBA playoffs, Los Angeles Lakers coach Darvin Ham addressed the team in the locker room. With the sting of defeat still fresh, his words carried added weight, especially in light of Jamal Murray‘s buzzer-beater that sealed the Lakers’ fate in Game 5 against the Denver Nuggets.
The Lakers are facing uncertainty not only on the court but also on the sidelines as reports suggest they may be hesitant to pay for a top-tier head coach.
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