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Andy Larsen: Lakers' Luke Walton isn’t a great coach, but putting him on the mid-season hot seat won’t help

It’s 2018, so to answer this question, you might Google it. But when you do a search for “Lakers hire Luke Walton," Google thinks you’ve made a mistake.

But maybe Google, in its algorithmic wisdom, knows this: the Lakers have rotated through some coaches since Phil Jackson’s departure in 2011. They let Mike Brown coach for one season, then fired him five games into his second. Mike D’Antoni coached most of the rest of that year plus the next season before getting canned. Byron Scott coached two full seasons before getting fired.

Now Luke Walton has made it exactly eight games into his third season before rampant speculation of his firing has begun.