Darvin Ham Notes Interteam Drama When Talking About Old Lakers Team

Darvin Ham’s time in Los Angeles was fairly successful. He was 90-74 during the regular season and helped lead the Lakers to two playoff births during his two seasons there. One playoff run had the Lakers reaching the Western Conference Finals, while the other resulted in a first round exit. 

As always, there was much drama during Ham’s time coaching the Lakers. He recently went on the Hoop Genius Podcast to discuss his time with the Lakers. 

“I'm forever grateful and thankful for, you know, the Buss family and even Rob Pelinka, man, just just choosing me to to try to navigate through that tough stretch that they were going to. That said, you know, like again, I'm in the facts, man, not feelings. And my time there, we did a lot of cleaning up. You know, the roster was imbalanced. It was a lot that was going on with our between our star players and just trying to figure weed through that, figure all that out. And we got to a place where we were able to make a deal, you know, that that that really spearheaded our run to the Western Conference Finals that year. And I thank all of those guys for playing hard, putting it on the line for me. Um, you know, again, that's the brightest light on on stage in in all of sports, let alone just the NBA. And so, uh, I thought I navigated it well. I had a principle where I would I never [ __ ] on my players, you know. I always try to protect my players in the media, you know.”

Ham is hinting at part of his time in Los Angeles being affected by some drama between the teams stars. Of course, he must be referring to something including LeBron James. As we all know, LeBron brings drama wherever he goes, and it sounds like Ham’s time in LA was affected by it.