Warriors spoke with former Lakers head coach Darvin Ham
Do expect him to join the team, soon.
It’s the most brutal time of the year for NBA coaches. After the regular season comes the NBA Playoffs for a handful of teams, but for many others comes something I like to refer to as the NBA Layoffs. It’s when the league tends to fire a large number of coaches all at once … some very deserved, but many less so.
The Golden State Warriors haven’t experienced the NBA Layoffs in a decade, but their rivals in Southern California have gone through it plenty. Including this year, when the Los Angeles Lakers fired head coach Darvin Ham shortly after a first-round playoff bounce, in which was one of the worst-kept secrets in the NBA.
Could Ham find himself helping out the Warriors? It’s not a crazy idea: under Steve Kerr, the Warriors have been a popular place for former head coaches to take assistant roles and rebuild their value, which Mike Brown and Alvin Gentry parlayed into head coach jobs elsewhere, and Kenny Atkinson is on the verge of doing.
According to a report from Anthony Slater of The Athletic, the Warriors have already had discussions with Ham in the last few weeks. However, Slater immediately poured could water on his own report, stating that the addition of Ham “isn’t expected to happen.”
Slater didn’t expand on that report, so it’s unclear if the two sides didn’t see a natural fit, or if Ham simply wants to wait around and see if a head coaching opportunity (or better assistant coach gig) opens up for him. Ham also could want to take some time off following the grind and drama of coaching the Lakers. Since he was fired with time remaining on his contract, Ham will make money this season even if he doesn’t coach.
Either way, you can take the conversations with Ham to mean that the Warriors are in search of a high-profile assistant coach to add to their bench this summer.
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Draymond Green continues to embrace his inner hater.
“WiFi just came on, on my flight after a while in the air… OUCH!! 😳😳😳 lol wow,” Green wrote on his official Twitter (X) account.
Draymond Green has been a thorn in the Timberwolves’ side all season long; the Warriors forward even got into it with fans in Target Center after Game 2, with Green yelling out that Rudy Gobert sucks as a response to the fans’ vitriol towards him.
Green may not admit it point blank, but his disdain for Gobert, and by extension, the Timberwolves, knows no bounds. And love him or hate him, the Warriors forward will be unabashedly himself.
Draymond Green goes on a hate tour
The easy clapback towards Draymond Green’s tour of hatred against Rudy Gobert and the Timberwolves is that the Warriors failed to reach their goals for the 2023-24 season, thanks in large part to Green’s inability to hold his emotions in check.
Green was already on edge to begin the season, as he racked up quite a few technical fouls for some incessant complaining and some questionable hits. But it was the Timberwolves that began to bring out the worst in the Warriors forward. As one would recall, on November 14, 2023, Green was ejected after just two minutes of game time after he put Gobert in a choke hold in an attempt to break up an altercation involving his teammate Klay Thompson.
The league suspended Green for five games for that offense, but it didn’t take long for the Warriors forward to land in hot water once more. In only his sixth game since his return from suspension, Green then took Jusuf Nurkic out with a violent-looking hit. Green then drew an indefinite suspension that forced him to miss 16 games.
It’s quite odd that Green has beef with rim-protecting centers who hail from Europe. Green’s animosity with Gobert is what’s fresher in fans’ minds, but the Warriors forward has been butting heads with Nurkic for quite some time now as well, with the two trading barbs earlier in the playoffs following the Phoenix Suns’ first-round exit.
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