Luke Walton is still the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. That will probably change after the next three games, obviously, but bookmakers are now on *checks notes* frontrunner No. 13 for Walton’s position.
Juwan Howard was a surprise betting favorite recently to replace Walton as the Lakers head coach next season, following in Tyronn Lue, Mark Jackson and Jason Kidd’s footsteps. Now, only a few days later, Marc Stein of the New York Times apparently was given some different information:
Miami Heat assistant coach Juwan Howard would indeed be a candidate for the Lakers' head coaching job, I'm told, if it opens as so many around the league have expected for weeks.