Report: Lakers Targeting Warriors’ Star Assistant For Frank Vogel’s Coaching Staff

The Los Angeles Lakers replaced Luke Walton with Frank Vogel. The head coach will get some help from Lionell Hollins and Jason Kidd. The Lakers are now going after a Warriors assistant.

Ron Adams will be able to talk to the Lakers as the team got the necessary permission. The information was conirmed by ESPN’s Ohm Youngmisuk and Adrian Wojnarowski.

If by any chance you have never heard of Adams, he is one of the greatest defensive coaches in the NBA. The Lakers should definitely try to get him.

Adams has been a member of Steve Kerr’s coaching staff since 2014. In his first season with the franchise, the Golden State led the league in defensive rating. The 11^th spot was the lowest level the Warriors have ever reached.

The assistant was voted as the NBA’s top assistant coach four years in a row by the NBA’s general managers.

“He comes to work each day like the teacher he is, engaged without being intrusive, opinionated without being overbearing and as quietly competitive as hell,” Monte Poole wrote. “Maybe it’s those qualities, along with a 50-year catalog of basketball knowledge, that keep Ron Adams atop the list of more than 100 assistant coaches in the NBA. For the fourth consecutive year, the Warriors’ chief defensive strategist was chosen by vote of 30 general managers as the best assistant coach in the league. Adams received 17 percent of the vote, ahead of San Antonio’s Ettore Messina, who finished second with 13 percent.”

“It’s gratifying when anyone recognizes your work,” Adams said in an exclusive interview. “But I’m always amused by it because there are so many great coaches out there, not only head coaches but also some really, really talented assistant coaches. It’s nice when the support people get some attention.”

Adams, who turns 71 in November, has been coaching basketball at one level or another, in one league or another, since his first job as an assistant at Fresno Pacific College in 1969. He coached in Europe in the 1970s. He has been in the NBA for 26 years, beginning with the San Antonio Spurs in 1992.