The coaching search is beginning to heat up for the Los Angeles Lakers as the team has already been granted permission to speak with two leading candidates in Warriors assistant Luke Walton and Spurs assistant Ettore Messina.
While those two are the early front-runners plenty of other names, have been floating around as well, and one of the more interesting is former Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt.
According to ESPN’s Marc Stein, the Lakers plan to interview the former Cavs coach:
Sources say the Lakers also plan to interview former Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt and have strong interest in UConn coach Kevin Ollie.