By Jovan Buha, Jason Jones and Tess DeMeyer
Lindsey Harding, the coach of the G League’s Stockton Kings, will be part of the Los Angeles Lakers’ workers as an assistant underneath head coach JJ Redick, league sources confirmed Tuesday. ESPN first reported the information.
Charlotte Hornets assistant coach Bob Beyer is one other coach who is anticipated to be added to Redick’s workers, in response to league sources. He’s been in attendance for a number of Lakers summer time league video games and has sat alongside the teaching workers, together with Redick, Nate McMillan and Scott Brooks.
Harding, 40, was the No. 1 choose by the Phoenix Mercury within the 2007 WNBA Draft. She turned the one lady head coach in both the NBA or G League when she coached Sacramento’s G League staff of their opener, a loss, in opposition to the Santa Cruz Warriors in November 2023.
A former Duke standout whose No. 10 jersey was retired by this system, Harding was named the Naismith Participant of the 12 months in 2007. She performed 9 seasons within the WNBA and, after her taking part in profession, labored as a scout and participant growth coach for the Philadelphia 76ers. She then spent 4 seasons as an assistant for the Sacramento Kings earlier than being named the top coach of the Stockton Kings.
In April, Harding turned the primary lady to be named the NBA G League Coach of the 12 months after main the Stockton Kings to a 24-10 regular-season document.
Harding has additionally coached the Mexican ladies’s nationwide staff since 2022 and beforehand served in the identical function for South Sudan’s ladies’s staff.
Harding’s strengths as a coach
Harding’s skill to speak and join with gamers has at all times been seen as a power in Sacramento and later as head coach in Stockton. She started her teaching journey in 2014 with Toronto throughout summer time league, whereas nonetheless an lively participant herself. The data and power she confirmed then led to the chance in Sacramento as a result of Toronto’s summer time league coach, Jesse Mermuys, was an assistant on Luke Walton’s workers in Sacramento. As a former standout level guard, her data of the sport and seeing it from a playmaker’s perspective have been useful in her teaching profession. — Jason Jones, Tradition workers author
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