It’s late September, and Frank Vogel is standing along the baseline of a floor he never envisioned himself on in a job that would have been laughable to suggest he would have months earlier. The head coach of the Lakers—the Lakers!—is riffing with a reporter. Landing the NBA’s marquee coaching job required a series of breaks—Monty Williams rejected the Lakers' overtures, then Ty Lue before Vogel, a year removed from a disappointing two-year stint in Orlando, was tabbed—but then, so didn’t Vogel’s NBA coaching career. In 2006, Vogel was on the NBA fringes. Fired, along with the rest of Jim O’Brien’s staff, from Philadelphia a year earlier, Vogel was moonlighting as a part-time advance scout.
Inside Frank Vogel's Evolution into Leading LeBron James and the Lakers
