Nick Wright was very complimentary of this Laker roster before the season started. He said the Lakers won the offseason. When he tells you today he never liked the roster he is lying to you.

Nobody with good sense wants that Lakers head coach job.

Nick caught a bullet wound from Barkley’s rant.

do i think Ham is scapegoat? yes. do i think Ham is a good coach? no. in other words, T-Lue should have been hired over Ham to begin with. But, Perlinka never know how to build a team.

They lost 11 of 12 to one team and no game plan changed from last year to now. Ham is not a good X's and O's person

My question is this: If Ham gets fired, can he file for unemployment? 😂😂

Nick is one of those rare people who can ruin your day at work by just saying hi.

Vogel is the guy that got the raw deal. He should not have been fired because of the mistakes of management and the meddling stars. Honestly, I think Vogel should still be their coach right now. He had an unimaginative offense, but his defense (both scheme and philosophy) was rock solid and the team’s identity was iron clad. Ham is an assistant level coach (capacity wise). He has no business being in that lead chair. He has great qualities as an assistant. He is a players guy and he is good at communicating and motivating. His problem is being able to think, improvise and visualize the game.

Lakers love to fire coaches. Since Phil they have been having a new coach on average every 2 years.

Fire Ham and Pelinka!✌It took Ham 2 mths to Figure Out He Should Start His Best 5 Players and He Doesn’t Know When to Call Timeouts✌🏀✌

Nick looks like he could play that one guy in the Harry Potter movies

Oh god forbid we criticize LeBaby and AD

Ive been saying for years to hire Marc Jackson

The freezing thing by Nick was cold…a pun intended. He Owned Wildes on that.

I did not see that comment from Darvin Ham 2:01 being about Austin Reaves... I truly thought it was about DLo. That's crazy!!!

Big money comes with big expectations. Especially if your in LA

For real why doesn’t Mark Jackson get another coaching job? He built the culture in Golden State……Also Lionel Hollins?

"They might be the second best team in the League?" What? Come on, they struggled all season, finished in the play-in and lost in 5 in the first round. And just stop it with the injuries! Every NBA team has to deal with players in and out.

The Lakers roster was good enough to be a top 6 seed. I am not buying the bad roster argument. Even with injuries, they underachieved.

Second best team? Not on planet earth. Just wow.

I wanted Darvin fired last year in the Warriors series. So to say the least I'll be happy if he gets fired.

Everyone talks about ty Lou but they must forget at his end with Cleveland people were saying he wasn’t a good coach and his lineups and game plans didn’t make sense. Now he is some great coach? How are the clippers doing with all those star players. Yea kawahi is hurt all the time but you have George right now harden Russ and good role players and what’s happening.

How is Brou blaming Rob if he say the Whole year that he liked the players on the Roster ?! It’s on HAM!

Austin Reeves is the Golden Boy. LeBron and AD should take a huge blame. Get rid of the coach isn’t the answer when the Lakers get their asses kicked out the first round🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I thought he was talking about DLo when he said that

I feel like I want to coach the Lakers when Bron retires. When they look for a head coach.

The Lakers organization doesn't have to do anything because despite being a mediocre basketball team with an aging star, the media treats them like they are perennial contenders with 20 plus nationallly televised games every season. Magic Johnson even said, the Lakers still make money even when they lose.

crazy how we publicize that someone's being fired. this is a human being with a family to provide for and personal things he is taking care of, and it's entertainment.

LePropaganda! Lebron has never had respect for his coaches. He feels he's above being coached

People act like the Lakers didn’t lose to the best team in the league. They lost to Denver not Minnesota.

Right there is getting swept last year? And 4-1 this year?? Lmfaaaooo what

Blaming the lineup is stupid as hell, the NBA is on the players, especially when your squad has veterans on it. You think Andrea Iguodala wasn't starter quality? They were a powerhouse because he embraced his role, again which is not a problem with good veteran leadership, the Lakers don't have a leader

Let's stop joking. If ty lue was lebrons coach he would be the scapegoat for losing. He gets little to no credit for the ring with lebron

When your up by 20 an the other teams make adjustments that you can’t counter back most of the time is the head coach

2 years is ridiculous

The writings were on the wall... After winning the In-Season tournament, LA was in a funk for a while before eventually turning things around and making the Playoffs Ham is a very good young coach but not equipped yet to lead LA to the promise land. Totally agree with Charles Barkley though. What about also moving Pelinka? who ultimately called the shots for Westbrook's sign-in, Caruso's departure etc. etc. As crazy as this is going to sound, I think coach Ham should have been let go or relegated to Assistant Coach earlier right when Ime Udoka was up for grabs on the market Udoka would have been a hell of pick-up for LA to bring in the kind of continuity and head coaching we need to succeed over the long-run

I like the Nick with the haircut better

Charles Barkley destroys Nick wrong

How much more do the lakers need?? My goodness, they already got 4 players who can average 15+ points smh

nick did said it, he knew lakers rosters werent that good.. still putting lakers on top tiers and really think lakers could beat nuggets..

Crazy how Ham is getting blamed for the whole thing. As if there's any gameplan for DLo giving you zero points in a game, or Reaves deciding to only show up when the game is all but over, or when only AD plays defense so he's gassed by the 4th, or when LeBron decides to shoot a wide open 3 (and misses) instead of bleeding the clock, or when LeBron constantly goes to sleep on missed shots and allows Gordon to rebound everything. These are the things that are on the players, not coaches. This team sorely lacks defense and rebounding, which is why they haven't been a legitimate contender since the Bubble. They don't have Rondo, Howard, Caruso, KCP, etc. Defense matters when trying to be part of that upper tier of teams. It really just comes down to Lakers nation being unable to admit that getting swept in the WCF isn't that great of an achievement. We saw the Blazers do it in 2019 and they weren't considered title contenders. The 2015 Rockets made the WCF and they weren't legit. Same with the 2013 Grizzlies. Getting to the conference finals in itself means nothing. You gotta make it a battle, like the Spurs in 2012 when they lost to the Thunder, the 2018 Rockets when they lost to the Warriors, or the Kings in 2002. That's when you can really say a WCF appearance mattered.

To be honest, I think they do an Austin Reaves a disservice I don’t think I think Austin Reeves is like they’re actually fifth best player not their third. I actually would’ve had Rui in the starting lineup and been having Rui featuring him a lot more kind of having him in Austin kind of share that roll or whatever.

I think ham was talking about DLO

The Lakers should fire Gabe Vincent and Jared Vanderbilt if anyone. They did not earn their paycheck; Coach Ham did. Darvin really overachieved considering the fact that his best shooter AND most versatile defender missed the entire season.

Mark Jack🇺🇸

So Ham didn’t know to start the 5 best players?? This is what Lebron’s team wants us to believe??

A lot of revisionist history regarding Darvin ham because some of these media heads starting watching lakers in March…this guy cost the lakers at least 10-15 games (I’m being generous) for dumb shit like time outs, playing bench players 40 mins (prince), constantly leaving player open for three as strategy and the list goes on. The team looked unprepared, undisciplined and not focus on details …if that’s not on the coach then I don’t know what is

Quinn Snyder & Lakers Team need each other

This team is cooked, WTF are we talking about. The second best team in the league, a play in team is the second best team in the league.

If lakers bring lebron back then they aren’t serious about winning

Reeves is 9th man on the roster starting and taking too many shots. So Ham should be fired for giving Reeves that much control.

to look for a good coach, Lakers have to look for assistant coaches and also search in college basketball league. Otherwise Ham needs to be retained.

Lebalco james makes Darvin ham his scapegoat

Ham is not a genius--but he didn't give up key rebounds and miss key free throws--players did not execute when it mattered

One thing for sure we didn’t have our two best defenders cam and Jared hams not horrible but definitely could be better

I thought he was referring to DLo & not Austin Reeves.

As a lakers fan who never missed the game ham is just a bad coach. The constant changing of the line up. Putting players in bad position and having them do things not in their bag he’s the worst at. Half the season we had Prince as our starting point of attack defender. Instead of playing max christie more he benched him one of the top defenders and shooters on the team. A three and d guy who when he did play him he made him handle the freaking ball?!!! What?

If the Lakers were the second best team in the league they would have a better regular season record

Hire nick as the head coach

Absolutely no one misses bud in MKE

First viewer first. Hoang Bi for president.

Sam Cassell has been assistant coach for over a decade. 3x champ as a player. He may know a thing or two.

Kenny Atkinson is the choice 🙂

I don’t wanna hear that 2nd best, keeping running into Denver nonsense cause when James harden kept running into the warriors nobody gave him that excuse

What matters is beating Denver. Ham can’t do it.

First this First is FS1

Did u not see they played better defense with that so called NOT TOP LINE UP?!! omg stop it nick!

He said doc rivers lol

We cannot know Hows is Ham when Lebron and the Lakers CEO are the one that make the decisions..

Yet Chris just called for Muzzula job last week

Why not a playing coach in Lebron? No excuses. Anyway he's contemplating on retiring right? Perfect candidate

Ham is an awful coach. Those rotations in the regular season with no injuries where he sat D Lo and Reeves were fireable alone.

They’ll just hire Doc Rivers

😂The coach is A joke!!!! He will never be head coach again!!!!!

The reason why its so hard for lebron led teams to win is because he never give the teams time to gel.. in Miami he didn't have that pull and they won

Fire Ham

Scapegoating is what happens when a team underdelivers. They lost to the reigning and soon to be current champions. They didn’t underachieve so there’s no scapegoat it’s just trying to improve at one of the many positions on the team

LaBaby runs the team and floor. When he wins he wants to be crowned. When he loses bye bye bye coach

Lebytch built the roster

Nobody wants to coach this dam team as long as lbj is there. It never fails, when this guy looses its always somebody’s else’s fault. And there’s nobody in the sports media world is willing to call out his ass.

Ham missed a free throw...

Thats why if I was a coach I’d hate coaching lebron cause you’ll always be the fault or scapegoat when he doesn’t win

LeLosers once again. Blame the coach😂😂 how many coaches will this be for LeBum😂

Hilarious, gets to Western Conf finals, wins in season tournament and now he's trash? It's LeBron and AD when you win and the coaches fault when you lose.

The 5 best players? This is the same guy that acts like Lebron has no help any time they lose. He will even go after AD. The second best team in the league? Chris must have hit that blow before the game.

Lbj smh...another coach out because of him

Darvin “Hands in my pockets “ Ham should’ve fired himself in the word of Bubba Dubb Trashh!!!!

This Milwaukee fan sure thought it was a dumb knee-jerk reaction to fire our championship winning coach for losing a series to the eventual eastern conference champs. That they were the 8th seed doesn’t matter. On top of that people dont realize his brother died suddenly before the fourth game. I dont care how professional you try to be thats gotta affect a guy. And Giannis was hurt for most of the series.

So the lakers had multiple 20 point leads and were up at half every game…was he bad during all the first halfs?

Bogus

LeBron the coach killer

Lakers are not the second best team, it is not an argument

He 100% gone lol

Not a scapegoat, he is not a qualified head coach. Pelinka should also be responsible for the outcome. Ham should know as a coach that AD and LBJ are not 25 or 26 years old; they are 31 and 39; they cannot afford to play the minutes they play. Even if you would lose a game or two, you should pay attention to their usage time. Pelinka is a qualified agent but not a qualified general manger. How come a championship oriented team without a center backup? AD has been banged up as a main defender and team scorer; he is really the most valuable player. Further more, how many useless players has he signed this past year?

The problem is LeBron James , he's running the team, he's the general manager, that's why the Lakers suck, like Charles Barkley said

Hire Mark Jackson

If you remember the ist Darvin had Lebron and ad sitting out when it was a 1 ot game . And Lebron and ad had to force themselves n the game.

LeBron changes coaches all the time..

He has been lying since the start

Lebron has always been poison to NBA coaches.