Darvin Ham

Lakers Most Likely To Fire Darvin Ham In Coming Days

According to The Ahtletic’s Jovan Buha, it is looking like the end is near for Darvin Ham with the Los Angeles Lakers. It’s believed him replacing Frank Vogel was not the right solution.

Los Angeles’ front office wanted to do their due diligence first to ensure they aren’t making any bad decisions, but they are most likely coming to the conclusion of moving on and hiring a new coach.

“The latest I’ve heard is the plan is still to move on from Darvin at some point, likely by the end of the week. Potentially as early as [Thursday]. Then, the head coaching search will start. I’ve already started to hear some names from different people… From what I’ve heard over the last couple of days, the plan is still to move on from Darvin.”

One of the main reasons Ham wasn’t immediately fired was that they didn’t want to repeat the outburst over how they handled Vogel’s firing.

“I think they caught a lot of flak for how the Frank Vogel situation happened where he was essentially fired at the buzzer and had to do a press conference with us and he was asked about it. It was just a really awkward situation. The Lakers didn’t formally announce it until the next morning and then tried to say that was how it all played out.”

General manager Rob Pelinka has yet to do his season exit interview, as the Lakers did theirs following Game 5’s loss to Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets.