The Los Angeles Lakers' first order of business right now is to wrap up their coaching search before free agency. The team has already interviewed Luke Walton, a meeting that reportedly went "well," with interviews with Ettore Messina and David Blatt still to come.
The Lakers getting a coach in place before attempting to woo free agents is something they didn't do the last time they had to undergo a coaching search, and an important step if reports are true that they want their next head coach to be "a recruiter-in-chief.