Anyone paying close attention to reports about the current Lakers coaching search has probably noticed a similar narrative in the scoops from two of the league’s top insiders, as both Shams Charania of The Athletic and Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN have gone out of their way to point out how patient and slow the Lakers are taking about this search.
Wojnarowski, immediately after Frank Vogel was fired, noted that the team’s search would be “lengthy and expansive,” and then last week talked about how the front office would take things slower than other teams before writing on Friday that “the Lakers’ search process has been methodical.