Lakers Make Big Decision on Frank Vogel Future

The Los Angeles Lakers had to make a decision on Frank Vogel and his future a lot earlier. The Lakers are at the end of another disappointing season. Fans are frustrated and Vogel may soon leave the franchise.

Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report confirmed that the Lakers will probably fire the head coach after the regular season. Why would they fire him at this point? Let’s not forget that Vogel helped the team win a championship in the middle of the pandemic.

“Now, as the finish line for this tumultuous 2021-22 campaign mercifully arrives, the Lakers are still expected to part ways with embattled play-caller Frank Vogel, sources told B/R, and the anticipated vacancy on Los Angeles’ bench has produced no shortage of potential candidates linked to fill the position,” Fischer reported.

Lakers to make expected decision for Frank Vogel and his future

Who will replace Vogel? Fischer reported that Quin Snyder and Doc Rivers are good options. Rivers has nothing but respect for the Lakers. He knows that they own the city.

“As Marc Stein first reported, Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder is perhaps most often mentioned by league figures as a possible Vogel replacement,” Fischer wrote. “For now, Snyder remains entrenched in Utah. He told Andy Larsen of the Salt Lake Tribune: ‘My focus is on our guys and our team. And as I said, addressing hypotheticals in these types of questions in any form I feel like is disrespectful.’ Yet that hasn’t dispelled the rumblings that Snyder, a Lakers assistant from 2011-12, may be inclined to step away from the Jazz following this season. Utah has taken its own tumble down the Western Conference standings.

“Doc Rivers, the Philadelphia 76ers’ head coach, is another active bench leader being mentioned by league personnel as a potential Lakers candidate. Rivers’ tenure in Philadelphia has also come into question of late. It’s spurred by team president Daryl Morey’s deadline acquisition of James Harden and the mounting speculation that followed about a potential reunification with Harden’s former Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni.”

Vogel is not the only person who made mistakes this season. However, the Lakers may sacrifice him in favor of another head coach.

Stephen A. Smith believes that the Lakers should get rid of the head coach, suggesting that “it’s time for Frank Vogel to go.” Smith wants the Lakers “put LeBron James out of his misery.”