JJ Redick has been the most consistent name linked to the Los Angeles Lakers' vacant head-coaching position, to the point where a marriage seems inevitable.
A former 15-year NBA player, Redick has been a broadcaster/commentator for ESPN over the past three years, while recently co-hosting a basketball podcast with Lakers superstar LeBron James. Redick does not have any NBA coaching experience.
On the latest edition of "All Facts No Brakes," guest Rachel Nichols opined to host Keyshawn Johnson why the Lakers hiring Redick would be a frightening unknown.
"With JJ, when you do make that choice, it is a blind leap," Nichols said about the Lakers potentially hiring Redick. "It is like walking into a pit blindfolded. Could be clouds of cotton candy. Could be happiness and light, and you're right about every instinct you have. This is the next Steve Kerr, X, Y, Z. It's worked out great. You could jump into that pit, and it's a bunch of piranhas. There's literally no way to know. There's no way for us to make an evaluation of what kind of coach JJ would be because there is zero information, and there's no way really for the Lakers to make an evaluation. We know he's a great X and O mind. His ATOs are going to be great. We know that he's young and relates to other players well, but that's it. That's all we know.
"What kind of coach he's going to be? What kind of manager he's going to be? What kind of rotations he's going to have? How he manages guys in the locker room? How he manages assistant coaches and scouting? We don't know any of that."
The Lakers fired head coach Darvin Ham after two seasons and a 47-35 record this past year. Their season ended after losing in five games to the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the
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