Tyronn Lue's Lakers' jostling court seems to have had a problem

The Lakers would have followed a strange and even troubling process to arrive at that moment in search of their next head coach – the moment they sat down at a table and reached an agreement with Tyronn Lue, with the full support of everybody. l & # 39; organization. Part of this process, as reported by Marc Stein of New York Times, implied the deeply bizarre strategy of letting the other runner-up for the job, Monty Williams, be hired by the Phoenix Suns, in order to silence his supporters within the Lakers organization.

This could be perceived as a gamble, unless the work of reaching an agreement with Lue is more or less a mere formality, a question of crossing of Ts and pointing Is. What seems to be , does not seem to have been the case:

woj and Stein Both reported on Wednesday that the failure of the negotiations came back to the Lakers who were trying to dictate their choices for assistant coaches to Lue, and Lue seeking some degree of autonomy to select his own guys. According to Woj, Lue hesitated to add former Bucks and Nets head coach Jason Kidd to his staff, but the general manager, Rob Pelinka, and his advisor, Kurt Rambis, remain "convinced that he should be a key member of Lue's coaching staff." . ESPN's Dave McMenamin explains that the disagreement also concerns salary and security:

Taken together, it seems like the Lakers and Lue have not been so close to a deal! In one way or another, Woj says the Lakers, having refused to make an offer to one of their two finalists and after obviously overthrown negotiations with the other, will pursue their search for someone, any one for replace the licensee Luke Walton. I look forward to the Lakers starting the NBA 2019-2020 season with Larry Drew as head coach.

UPDATE: My God.