Los Angeles Lakers fans did not plan on having a comedy hour this week, but Marc Stein accidentally delivered one anyway. In his latest newsletter, he dropped the line that set off an avalanche of chuckles across Laker land. “Bucks assistant coach Darvin Ham, I'm told, is a name to watch in the Pelicans’ search.”
That is right… a name to watch. For New Orleans. Darvin Ham. You could practically hear Lakers fans spit out their morning coffee. Ham’s exit from Los Angeles was not a mystery. It was not even a debate.
Lakers fans know exactly how Darvin Ham as head coach ends
His two-year run was defined by constant confusion, rotations that shifted without logic, game plans that unravelled at the worst moments, and a team that openly admitted it often had no idea what it was supposed to be doing.