Luke Walton is the fourth full-time head coach the Los Angeles Lakers have employed since 2012 (five if you count the GOAT Bernie Bickerstaff). Mike Brown, Mike D’Antoni and Byron Scott all struggled with varying expectations during their tenures, and all of that turnover contributed to a perception that L.A. was an unstable organization during that stretch.
With their new brain trust of Magic Johnson, Rob Pelinka and Walton, the team now appears to be on steadier ground, but that former reputation as a rudderless ship is one that has allowed their former coaches a degree of deniability for their struggles, to throw up their hands and basically say “What?