Earlier on Thursday, reports surfaced that before he was let go, one of the hangups between Los Angeles Lakers management and Luke Walton was the insistence that he add Kurt Rambis to his coaching staff.
Walton instead chose to live in Sacramento. The Lakers didn’t get the hint.
According to Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports, Rambis was once again a point of contention, this time with Tyronn Lue, who chose to remain unemployed rather than employ the former Lakers and Knicks assistant coach:
And what’s worse, asking Lue to take on Rambis as an assistant, a no-no according to sources close to Lue, feels like the Lakers want their walls bugged and feared a LeBron takeover — as if Lue would allow himself to be used as a puppet.