{"id":483880,"date":"2024-06-05T09:47:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T13:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483880"},"modified":"2024-06-05T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T10:00:19","slug":"jj-redick-becomes-front-runner-for-new-lakers-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jj-redick-becomes-front-runner-for-new-lakers-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Redick becomes front-runner for new Lakers coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JJ Redick is currently the leading candidate to become the next head coach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>, according to reports from The Athletic. While a final decision has not yet been made, indications strongly suggest that Redick is the front-runner to succeed Darvin Ham.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, the Lakers&#8217; search for a new head coach has primarily focused on two main candidates: Redick and New Orleans Pelicans assistant coach James Borrego.<\/p>\n<p>Redick, who was the first candidate to meet with the Lakers three weeks ago, is now seen as the top choice. Meanwhile, Borrego had a second in-person interview with team representatives last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: The Lakers are finalizing the hire of JJ Redick as their next head coach<\/p>\n<p>WOW. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WgMxZOiYGK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WgMxZOiYGK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1798101369427198367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Lakers are still in the process of completing the necessary steps in their search, but Redick&#8217;s early engagement with the team and his strong candidacy position him favorably in the race to become the next head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JJ Redick is currently the leading candidate to become the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, according to reports from The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":483881,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19264,16970],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[19265,17645],"acf":{"announce":"James Borrego is also in the race, but it seems less likely that he will get the job in Los Angeles","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483888,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483880\/revisions\/483888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483880"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483880"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}