Lakers reportedly interview Kurt Rambis for coaching job
Rambis has a long history as a player and assistant with the Lakers.
The Los Angeles Lakers are reportedly looking at a legacy as a potential coach next year — one with an iconic pair of glasses. Current Lakers assistant Kurt Rambis has been interviewed for the team's vacant head coaching position, according to the Los Angeles Times' Mike Bresnahan.
The Lakers have interviewed Kurt Rambis to be their head coach, The Times has learned. They'll met with Gentry on Weds. + Hollins on Thurs.
— Mike Bresnahan (@Mike_Bresnahan) May 27, 2014 Rambis won four NBA championships with the Lakers as a player and has had numerous stints as an assistant coach with the team. He was briefly the Lakers' head coach in 1999 after taking over for fired coach Del Harris. However, the organization hired Phil Jackson and Rambis became the assistant general manager, and eventually assistant coach. He held that role until 2009, when he took a head coaching job with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Rambis' time in Minnesota — his longest tenure as a head coach — was brutal. The Timberwolves went 32-132 in his two seasons in Minneapolis, and he returned to the Lakers to be an assistant again this past season. His competition for the job includes former Memphis Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins, and former Phoenix Suns head coach and current Los Angeles Clippers assistant Alvin Gentry.
