{"id":254578,"date":"2025-09-25T21:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254578\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T21:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:49:10","slug":"los-angeles-lakers-extend-jj-redick-as-head-coach-ahead-of-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254578\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers extend JJ Redick as head coach ahead of NBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/85528218007-usatsi-26058361.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lakers extending Luka Doncic cements new era<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Lakers have Luka Doncic locked in for the next few years, the hard work really begins.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Rob Pelinka and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> expressed a vote of confidence in JJ Redick after his first season with the team, handing the head coach a contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the extension were not immediately announced during the press conference that the two men had with reporters on Thursday, Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Redick led the Lakers to a 50-32 record and the Pacific Division Championship last season. The Lakers were the third seed in the playoffs but lost the final three games in a five-game series against the Minnesota Timberwolves and were eliminated in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Redick was officially introduced as the Lakers&#8217; coach on June 24, 2024. He initially signed a four-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>He spent 15 years in the league as a guard but did not have any coaching experience. He was hosting a podcast with Lakers superstar LeBron James before he was hired as the Los Angeles coach. Redick also worked as an analyst for ESPN\/ABC.<\/p>\n<p>Redick called the offseason productive and educational and spent time with several veteran football coaches, including Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers begin preseason play on Friday, Oct. 3 in Palm Desert, California, against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" data-autotag=\"5b1d8499-f4c6-4857-a8e9-6d2e8a35bac3\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix Suns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers extending Luka Doncic cements new era Now that the Lakers have Luka Doncic locked in for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":254579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[4231,1339,1582,276,128691,8041,5723,7235,9401,59,102702,42240,8601,2961,8604,8600,3363,4230,224,3141,5337,942,50,450,950,1589,1721,134317,99667,62,24119,1458,7231,10576,646],"class_list":{"0":"post-254578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-california-gold-rush","13":"tag-coaching","14":"tag-espn","15":"tag-espn-inc","16":"tag-gold","17":"tag-inc","18":"tag-j-j","19":"tag-j-j-redick","20":"tag-james","21":"tag-la","22":"tag-lakers","23":"tag-lebron","24":"tag-lebron-james","25":"tag-los","26":"tag-los-angeles","27":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","28":"tag-losangeles","29":"tag-neutral","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-overall","32":"tag-overall-neutral","33":"tag-phoenix","34":"tag-phoenix-suns","35":"tag-redick","36":"tag-rush","37":"tag-sports","38":"tag-sports-coaching-u0026-training","39":"tag-sports-news","40":"tag-suns","41":"tag-training","42":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115267146398831862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}