When Tyronn Lue completed his second interview for the open Los Angeles Lakers head coaching job, a lot of attention was paid to the idea that he tried to recruit Tom Thibodeau as a lead assistant.
While that ultimately may have helped sell the Lakers on the type of impressive coaching staff Lue wants to build, it sounds like he wasn’t completely clinical in arguing why he was the right man for the job, either.
According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, who was speaking on his latest episode of “The Woj Pod,” Lue was able to win Lakers owner Jeanie Buss over in part because he knows what it means to be a Laker, and appreciates everything that came with it for him:
”I do know in the interview process, when he (Lue) sat down with Jeanie Buss, he certainly struck the right chords with her I’m told.