It seems that Ty Lue will likely stay in California, with the Los Angeles Clippers, amid reports of him linking to a potential transfer to the Los Angeles Lakers , who fired Darvin Ham and his coaching staff.
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the Los Angeles Clippers are keen on giving Ty Lue a new long-term deal this summer to keep him beyond at least the 2025-26 season, even if the team is coming off yet another early playoff exit.
“I didn’t come here to bounce around and go all over the place,” Lue said after Game 6. “And Mr. (Steve) Ballmer, Lawrence (Frank), Mark (Hughes), Trent (Redden), Gillian (Zucker), they’ve all been great to me. This is where I want to be and hopefully, they feel the same way. So I haven’t had a bad experience since I’ve been here. Mr. Ballmer showed me a lot of different things that I wouldn’t be privy to if I wasn’t here.
“Just having a great relationship with the owner, with the front office, it is great. And so I would love to be here long term,” he concluded.
Ty Lue’s Los Angeles Clippers tenure so far
Before joining the Los Angeles Clippers, Ty Lue was offered the head coaching job by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2019, but he turned it down. When Doc Rivers was fired following the 2020 bubble, Lue was elevated to the head job and guided the franchise to its first Western Conference Finals appearance in 2021.
Since taking over in 2020-21, Ty Lue has compiled a 184-134 record, the league’s sixth-best record in that period, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
Unfortunately for the Los Angeles Clippers, even with Ty Lue in their ranks, they still couldn’t get over the hump because they’ve dealt with untimely injuries to their stars Paul George and Kawhi Leonard.
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