The Los Angeles Lakers are working it again with a coach who helped carry them their final NBA championship.
Michael Scotto of HoopsHype reports that the Lakers are reuniting with assistant coach Greg St. Jean. The veteran NBA assistant will now be serving as an assistant on the workers of Lakers rookie head coach JJ Redick.
St. Jean, the son of former Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors head coach Garry St. Jean, was initially employed by the Lakers as a participant growth coach beneath Frank Vogel throughout the 2019-20 marketing campaign. The Lakers would go on to win the NBA title that yr, and St. Jean later left to function an assistant coach beneath Jason Kidd on the Dallas Mavericks after which as an assistant beneath Vogel once more on the Phoenix Suns.
With ex-NBA forward-turned-assistant DeMarre Carroll leaving the Lakers to turn into an assistant for the Cleveland Cavaliers, there’s a contemporary opening on workers for St. John to fill. He now turns into a part of a Dream Staff of kinds beneath Redick that additionally contains two notable former head coaches.