Doubling down on what she hinted at recently, Los Angeles Lakers controlling owner Jeanie Buss threw her full support behind head coach Luke Walton on Tuesday.
Speaking with Cassidy Hubbarth on Buckets, Episode 7, Buss slammed the door on any notion that the Lakers are looking to replace the young coach.
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What’s really fascinating about this story to begin with is that the Lakers have gone on a tear ever since LaVar Ball told ESPN that Walton had lost the ear of locker room. They ripped off four straight wins before losing two games, and they’ve won a couple more in a row for a 6-2 record in their last eight games.
Whether all this is a result of Ball’s comments actually galvanizing the locker room or coincidence, clearly Walton is doing plenty right in Los Angeles. He has the Lakers sitting in third place in the Pacific Division with a record of 17-29, 6.5 games outside the No. 8 seed.