Assets – Lakers rent JJ Redick for 4 years as workforce trainer

The Los Angeles Lakers have agreed to a four-year contract with JJ Redick to make him the franchise’s subsequent trainer, assets advised ESPN on Thursday.

Redick, an ESPN NBA analyst who performed 15 years within the league, met with Lakers vice chairman and basic supervisor Rob Pelinka and proprietor Jeanie Buss over the weekend, and discussions in regards to the emptiness persevered during the week, assets mentioned.

Pelinka introduced the activity to Reddick Thursday morning, assets mentioned.

Pelinka has been inspired with Redick’s talent to connect to gamers and his basketball IQ, assets mentioned, and believes having a super training group of workers round Redick will lend a hand him be told in his first training activity.

Redick rose to the vanguard of the hunt per week in the past, when the Lakers’ pursuit of Connecticut trainer Dan Hurley was once in the long run rejected.

The Lakers introduced Hurley a six-year, $70 million contract, which he became down early ultimate week, assets mentioned.

Consistent with assets, as Pelinka advised Hurley, he nonetheless needs a instructing trainer and group of workers that may prioritize the advance of younger gamers like Max Christie, Austin Reaves and Rui Hachimura and devise an inventive strategy to comprise Anthony Davis on each ends of the ground.

Redick has a powerful courting with Lakers superstar LeBron James, with whom he co-hosts a basketball podcast.