The Los Angeles Lakers have hoped to hire Jason Kidd as an assistant coach on the staff of Tyronn Lue. Kidd interviewed for the head coaching job of the Lakers as well. It is unclear how interested Kidd is in this type of assistant coaching role with an emphasis on player development.<doc-sep>The Los Angeles Lakers appeared set to hire Tyronn Lue as their next head coach, but according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, things have hit a snag: Negotiations between the Los Angeles Lakers and Ty Lue have reached an impasse without a deal to make him the franchise’s next head coach, league sources tell ESPN. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 8, 2019 Wojnarowski says the Lakers and Lue have not been able to agree on an assistant coaching staff or his contract, with an interesting name entering the mix as a possible assistant: Discussions have included talks on contract and assistant coaching staff, sources said. Among Lakers hopes on a Lue staff: Jason Kidd. He made a strong impression with management in his head coaching interview and had a productive history w/ Bucks developing young talent. https://t.co/uQxTjqWAm7 — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 8, 2019 Shams Charania of The Athletic provided further details on Kidd’s assistant coaching candidacy, including that it isn’t totally clear he’d even want such a job: The Los Angeles Lakers and head coaching candidate Ty Lue are working to find common ground on the makeup of a potential assistant coaching staff, league sources tell The Athletic. The sides have discussed names for Lue’s staff, with one suggestion being former Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd, league sources said. Kidd’s appetite for this type of assistant coaching role — a role with an emphasis on helping to develop their talented young core of players — is unclear, according to sources. There has been no set agreement on a deal for Lue to become the next head coach of the Lakers as of yet. So, to briefly recap, the Lakers and their main option as head coach have seen their contract negotiations break down over their desire for him to hire an assistant coach he doesn’t want, who may not even want to be an assistant coach anyway. This is fine. Just another totally normal day in Lakerland. To address this news with a level of seriousness it probably doesn’t deserve, it’s pretty easy to see why Lue wouldn’t want Kidd on his bench, even if Kidd was interested. For evidence on why, let’s take a look back at Kidd’s coaching career. First, he tried to stage a front office coup in Brooklyn after just a year as head coach of the team in the first season following his playing career. Then he committed a major breach of coaching decorum when he went and spoke with Milwaukee Bucks ownership about their coaching job, a job that wasn’t open, and was filled by Larry Drew at the time. The Bucks fired Drew and hired Kidd, a move that was not seen kindly by coaches around the league. Compare that to how Lue handled even rumors that the Lakers might like him while Luke Walton was still employed — by calling Walton personally and assuring him he would not talk to the team about a job that was currently filled. Kidd was later fired by the Bucks, and apparently impressed the Lakers enough in his interview with Kurt Rambis and general manager Rob Pelinka that they want to try and put him on Lue’s staff. That’s all well and good, but beyond the whole thing of Kidd pissing of the NBA’s coaching fraternity with how he got the job in Milwaukee, and it probably being hard to trust a coach with a predilection for coup attempts, there is also the fact that Larry Drew ended up on Tyronn Lue’s bench in Cleveland. It’s not hard to connect a few dots and think that Lue may not exactly think highly of the way Kidd has conducted himself, or trust him. It’s not clear where this leaves the Lakers, but stay tuned, because apparently even when this team does the predictable thing, it needs to throw in a few plot twists out of habit. For more Lakers talk, subscribe to the Silver Screen and Roll podcast feed on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts. You can follow Harrison on Twitter at @hmfaigen.<doc-sep>In the wake of parting ways with Ty Lue after failing to reach an agreement on the head coaching vacancy, the Lakers will restart their search for a head coach with a host of new names included. Most notable of the new candidates, as reported by Shams Charania of The Athletic, are Jason Kidd and Frank Vogel, both former coaches with varying levels of success. The Lakers are adding former NBA coaches Lionel Hollins, Frank Vogel and Mike Woodson to their coaching search, according to league sources. Kidd is the more popular name despite being the vastly inferior option. In five years as head coach, one with Brooklyn and four with Milwaukee, Kidd earned a 183-190 (.491) record. In 24 playoff games, Kidd went 9-15 with one playoff series win. Kidd won three Coach of the Month awards but is more known for his exit from Milwaukee and the largely positive effect it had on the team. Vogel has a more decorated career, racking up a 250-181 record in six years with the Pacers from 2010 until 2016. His most recent stint in Orlando was far less successful as he went 54-110 for a .329 win percentage. Lionel Hollins is most known for his time in Memphis and the Grit and Grind era. Hollins, though, has not coached since the 2015-16 season after spending two unsuccessful years in Brooklyn. Similarly, Mike Woodson has spent even longer out of the league as a head coach. last coaching in the Knicks in 2013-14. Unlike Hollins, Woodson has spent the last four years on the bench as an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Clippers under Doc Rivers. That quartet, along with Juwan Howard, will be the focus of the Lakers search moving forward, but given how the negotiations played out with Ty Lue, it likely won’t be the end of the circus for Los Angeles.<doc-sep>The Telegraph Two of the surprise packages of this clay-court season have been British – initially Dan Evans, who made a deep run in Monte Carlo, and more lately Cameron Norrie, who played his second final in three weeks on Sunday. Unfortunately, Norrie wasn’t able to land a maiden ATP title in Lyon. But then he was up against Stefanos Tsitsipas, who has been the dominant force of 2021 outside the slams, and now stands at No 1 in the table of most rankings points gained since January 1. Nevertheless, it had been a hugely creditable effort for Norrie to go this far, especially when you consider that he took out top seed Dominic Thiem on Thursday, and then trounced big-hitting Russian Karen Khachanov in Saturday’s semi-final, losing only two games in the process. Norrie has come to clay late in his career, but it feels like this is developing into his favourite surface. He has one of the heaviest left-handed forehands in the game, loaded with top-spin, and uses it like a miniature version of Rafael Nadal. The result has been a tally of 14 wins and only four losses since he began his European clay-court swing in Barcelona. So while the French Open, which starts next Sunday, has traditionally been a graveyard of British hopes, there are reasons to hope that this year’s event could deliver some more positive results. Norrie’s previous final in Estoril had been a nervewracking affair which he eventually lost on a deciding-set tie-break to the more experienced Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas. Sunday was more straightforward for Tsitsipas, who needed only 69 minutes to hammer home a 6-3, 6-3 victory. It was Tsitsipas’ second title of the clay-court sequence, after he won Monte Carlo in mid-April, taking out Evans in the semi-final along the way. He has become a serious contender to upset the establishment – specifically Nadal and Novak Djokovic – at Roland Garros over the next few weeks. “I felt in good shape from the beginning of the tournament,” said Tsitsipas afterwards. “I am proud of today’s match, I knew it would be a difficult one against Cameron, who has been showing great tennis this week. He has been winning against good players and showing what the left hand can do on clay. “It was not an easy match today. I had to handle the nerves and I am proud of my performance and the way I stayed focused towards my goal.” On this year’s results, meanwhile, both Evans and Norrie stand among the world’s 20 most successful men. Evans is at No 16 and Norrie No 14. The next challenge for them both is to convert that ATP Tour form into a deep run at a major.<doc-sep>
According to ESPN Insider, Adrian Wojnarowski, negotiations between the Los Angeles Lakers and ex-Cleveland Cavaliers head coach, Tyronn Lue, have reached an impasse. As of this evening, there is no deal in the works to make Lue the franchise’s next head coach. Wojnarowski went on to report that discussions have included talks surrounding Lue’s potential contract as well as the assembly of his assistant coaching staff. Among the Lakers’ hopes, according to Woj, is the inclusion of Jason Kidd on Lue’s coaching staff. Kidd reportedly made a strong impression with Los Angeles management during his head coaching interview. He has also had what is deemed to be a productive history developing the young talent of the Milwaukee Bucks during his time there as head coach. Discussions have included talks on contract and assistant coaching staff, sources said. Among Lakers hopes on a Lue staff: Jason Kidd. He made a strong impression with management in his head coaching interview and had a productive history w/ Bucks developing young talent. https://t.co/uQxTjqWAm7 — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 8, 2019 From purely a speculative standpoint, Lue’s possible reluctance to include Kidd on his coaching staff may be influenced by his own coaching tenure with the Cavaliers. Lue himself was initially a runner-up to David Blatt in Cleveland’s head coaching search during the summer of 2014. Based on the strong impression that Lue made on Cavs management at the time, it was requested that Blatt include Lue as a member of his coaching staff. Blatt agreed and was eventually replaced by Lue as head coach in 2015. To this potential sticking point, Marc Stein followed up Woj’s report by offering the following.