Over the weekend, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN fired off a tweet suggesting that former Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets head coach Jason Kidd would be one of a few “serious candidates” to be Lakers head coach if Luke Walton is let go at the end of the season, as he is expected to be.
What was interesting about that wasn’t necessarily the report, however, it was the immediate and swift pushback on it from two of Wojnarowski’s colleagues at ESPN. First, Stephen A. Smith — who is well known to have a pretty direct line to Lakers president of basketball operations Magic Johnson — said that Kidd isn’t being considered:
“I have been told that’s not gonna happen.