Lakers Head Coach Darvin Ham Sounds Off On LeBron James Extension

Darvin Ham replaced Frank Vogel as the next head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers and he will work with LeBron James and Anthony Davis in the upcoming season. Ham doesn’t have much experience as a head coach, but he seems to be ready for the challenge.

The Lakers are coming off of a bad season and many thought that LeBron would go somewhere else. He is a winner and the team didn’t win many games in the last couple of seasons. LeBron shocked doubters and inked a $97.1 million extension with the Lakers.

“It’s huge, man,” Ham told Tomer Azarly of ClutchPoints. “It’s huge. LeBron is a once-in-a-lifetime player. You only get so many players. Not even so many. You have Bill Russell, you have Wilt Chamberlain, you have Dr. J, you have Moses Malone, you had Larry Bird, Magic [Johnson], you had [Michael] Jordan, you had Allen Iverson, Shaq [O’Neal], Kobe [Bryant], and now it’s LeBron’s time.”

Darvin Ham and LeBron James will do wonders together

Adrian Wojnarowski from ESPN discussed LeBron’s extension, too. He said that the four-time NBA champion didn’t find 2023 cap space teams strong enough to decline his extension with the team.

“For LeBron James, he looked at the free agency landscape next summer — who might have cap space — and there was nothing that interested him enough, I’m told, to keep that option open and go into the season on an expiring contract,” Wojnarowski said on Get Up.

LeBron moved his business to LA. His kids to go school in LA. Everyone in the James household likes the big city. LeBron, Savannah, and the kids won’t have to move somewhere else at this point.

“Sources briefed on the matter stress that James is extremely happy in Los Angeles despite the Lakers’ back-to-back rocky seasons,” Marc Stein reported. “He and his family, by all accounts, have grown increasingly entrenched in Southern California since James signed with the Lakers in the summer of 2018.”

LeBron will do his best to get that ring. He came to LA to win titles and now he has a new teammate. Will Patrick Beverley fit in the system?