After two seasons, the Los Angeles Lakers chose to part ways with head coach Darvin Ham. The team came into this season with championship aspirations but fell far short, losing to the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, the second consecutive year the Lakers came up short to Denver.
The Los Angeles Lakers are one of the few teams in the NBA with a vacant head coaching position after they fired Darvin Ham. Ham’s future in Los Angeles was essentially sealed once he failed to get the team past the Denver Nuggets for the second consecutive year.
The Lakers fired Ham after he failed to guide them out of the opening round of this season's playoffs.
There are a lot of things on the checklist for the Los Angeles Lakers this offseason, but one of the first and most important is finding a new head coach.
Former Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Jason Kidd appears to have little interest in renewing his relationship with the franchise in a greater capacity.
After a relatively successful two-year run with the Los Angeles Lakers, the club's now-ex-head coach Darvin Ham once again finds himself a free agent. There are two non-Lakers head coaching openings as of this writing, for the lottery-bound Charlotte Hornets and Washington Wizards.
Skip Bayless is always consistent when it comes to criticizing LeBron James throughout his career. The latest of his takes is when he called out the Los Angeles Lakers star for getting Darvin Ham fired after two seasons coaching the team.
The Los Angeles Lakers are already making chances as they prepare for the 2024-25 season. The Lakes front office already fired head coach Darvin Ham; however, that's just the start for the Purple and Gold. The Lakers front office may look to add a third All-Star alongside Anthony Davis and LeBron James (assuming he signs back with the team).
Less than a week after Denver sent Los Angeles home, the Lakers fired head coach Darvin Ham and the coaching staff. Big changes are already occurring in L.A.
According to NBA insider Anthony Irwin of Lakers Daily, several Los Angeles Lakers players “were taken aback” when Darvin Ham started Taurean Prince over
LeBron James turned in the best season for a 39-year-old in NBA history and led the Los Angeles Lakers to the 2024 NBA Playoffs despite an up-and-down 2023-24 season that featured injuries to several rotation players.
The firing of Darvin Ham as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers continues to be a hot topic in the NBA realm. For ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith, the Lakers were wrong to let go of Ham even though Los Angeles got ousted from the 2024 NBA Playoffs in the first round via a sweep at the hands of the Denver Nuggets.
The Darvin Ham era in Tinseltown is over after the Los Angeles Lakers handed Darvin Ham his pink slip. That means the Lakers need to find someone to replace him.
The Los Angeles Lakers fired former head coach Darvin Ham following the Lakers' 4-1 series loss to the Denver Nuggets during Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs.
The LA Lakers, after their first-round elimination by the Denver Nuggets, terminated the contract of head coach Darvin Ham with rumors suggesting that LeBron James had a hand in his departure.
The Los Angeles Lakers will search for yet another head coach after parting ways with former head coach Darvin Ham. The team decided to move in another direction, and the extensive head coaching search will begin this week.
Lakers executives felt there were significant issues with the team under Darvin Ham this season, which is why the head coach was fired earlier this week.
After a rollercoaster 2023-24 season that resulted in a first-round exit to the Denver Nuggets, the writing was on the wall for Los Angeles Lakers head coach Darvin Ham.
The Los Angeles Lakers are really cleaning house even beyond the firing of head coach Darvin Ham.
The writing had been on the wall over the last few days, but the Los Angeles Lakers finally made it official on Friday when they fired head coach Darvin Ham.
It would appear that Ham has admirers around the league.
Darvin Ham is out of L.A. after just two years on the bench.
Darvin Ham's future with the Lakers is now clear.
The Los Angeles Lakers have done the expected and fired head coach Darvin Ham after two seasons, the team announced. A search for a new coach is expected to begin immediately.
According to NBA insider Jovan Buha of The Athletic, the Los Angeles Lakers will fire Darvin Ham as head coach “by the end of the week.” The Lakers lost to the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the 2024 playoffs. The Lakers went 47-35 in the regular season.
The bottom line is this: The Lakers feel Ham needed to make the most of what he had, and that he wasn’t doing that.
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