.The Los Angeles Lakers have actually ultimately created a fresh selection for the most recent scalp trainer of their El Segundo-based G League associate team, the South Gulf Lakers.Sources update Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN that South Bay is actually working with long time aide instructor Zach Guthrie. Guthrie has formerly offered on the teams of the Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks as well as Utah Jazz.Guthrie had worked under then-Utah Jazz scalp coach Quin Snyder (now along with the Atlanta georgia Hawks) from 2016-20, along with Dallas Mavericks then-head coach Rick Carlisle in 2020-21, as well as very most recently for the Wizards under then-head trainer Wes Unseld Jr. beginning in 2021.
Unseld was fired up midway by means of 2023-24, as well as was substituted through assistant instructor Brian Keefe. This spring, Keefe was actually advertised coming from an interim job in to the crew’s irreversible scalp coach.As a head trainer, Guthrie guided the Wizards’ 2022 Summer season League squad.Per the National Baseball Coaches Organization, Guthrie additionally functioned as an associate online video coordinator for the San Antonio Spurs, under head trainer Gregg Popovich, and also a supervisor of state-of-the-art scouting for the Orlando Magic.South Bay went 26-24 during the course of its 2023-24 season, under prior head trainer Dane Johnson. Johnson was actually could final month, after only one year on the job.Read Even more: South Gulf Lakers Fire Head Coach Dane JohnsonThe G Game is the NBA’s developing minor league system.
Currently, 3 gamers are tattooed to two-way contracts with Los Angeles: tiny Blake Hinson, forward Armel Traore, and also facility Colin Castleton. Two-way players are actually toggled between the Lakers appropriate as well as the South Bay Lakers. Three gamers are actually affirmed to have actually been tattooed to Exhibition 10 training camp deals along with L.A., as well as will more than likely participate in South Bay on affiliate bargains: energy forward/center Kylor Kelley, point player Quincy Olivari and also shield Jordan Goodwin.
All 15 typical lineup spots for L.A. plus all three two-way locations are filled, but theoretically gamers might be waived if Lakers brass truly likes what it sees from one of these men. Probably most notably, Guthrie will be actually entrusted with building the play of raw novice point player Bronny James, the 19-year-old kid of returning Lakers All-Star forward LeBron James.
Bronny James was actually picked with the No. 55 overall selection in this summer months’s 2024 NBA Draft after a dull one-and-done keep up USC. He underperformed once more in Summertime League play with Los Angeles.
Johnson had actually acted as the club’s scalp trainer during that tenure, and was actually shot soon thereafter.More Lakers: Trae Young Provides 3 Lakers on All-Time NBA Team.