The Los Angeles Lakers have been an absolute mess over the past week, somehow ending up with Frank Vogel as their head coach and Jason Kidd as the first assistant hired to his staff.
But there looked like there may be some hope on the horizon in the lottery and especially in free agency. ESPN’s Brian Windhorst floated that the possibility of LeBron and Kyrie Irving reuniting with the Lakers opened “by the day,” but the New York Knicks have been connected to Irving for almost the entire season.
According to Windhorst’s ESPN colleague Stephen A. Smith, a return near Irving’s native New Jersey alongside Golden State’s Kevin Durant is a “95%” certainty. Smith added that he was told by someone “close to Irving’s family” that there is “no chance” he would join the Lakers.
Obviously, while a lot of the work in free agency is done over a long period of time, there are still less than two months for things to change for everyone involved. But it’s not a good sign for the Lakers that people in Irving’s camp are green-lighting such an anti-Lakers stance.
