JJ Redick has broken his silence about the rumors and that he is the frontrunner to take out the Lakers head coaching role.
The current ESPN analyst didn’t confirm or deny any of the rumors, but he at least spoke about them.
“I would says this: My focus right now is on calling the NBA Finals,” he said from a hotel room in Boston on Wednesday on GoJo and Golic, ahead of Thursday’s NBA Finals Game 1. “I am so fortunate that I’m in this position and I get to call these finals with Doris and Mike … my day-to-day right now is consumed with calling games, the 19 different podcasts I feel like I have, my obligations to all of our partners. My focus is on the NBA Finals.”
NBA insider Shams Charania wrote a report this week saying that LA are “zeroing in on JJ Redick as the frontrunner for franchise’s next head coach, league and industry sources say.”
While he wouldn’t go into detail about the report, Redick did mention it.
“In terms of Shams, that will be addressed once the season is over, I’ll just say that,” Redick said. “I don’t mean any job — I mean Shams. We’ll wait on that one.”
Contrary to Shams’ report, ESPN‘s Brian Windhorst reported on Wednesday’s edition of Get Up that Redick to the Lakers isn’t necessarily a ‘done deal’.
“I know that there’s been a lot of speculation and belief that this is gonna be J.J. Redick’s job, and that may end up being true at the end of the Finals,” Windhorst said. “But the people that I talk to still are telling me that there is a process to go through here, this is not a done deal.”
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