Report: Lakers to hire Bucks assistant Darvin Ham as head coach

The Los Angeles Lakers have themselves a new head coach.

The Lakers interviewed Darvin Ham on Thursday and offered him the job on Friday, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Ham is getting a four-year deal.

Ham, 48, had been an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks since 2018. Prior to that, he was an assistant with the Atlanta Hawks, and he also had a stint with the Lakers from 2011 to 2013.

Once well-known for his dunking abilities in college at Texas Tech, Ham bounced around the NBA from 1996 to 2005 before going into coaching in 2008.

The word over the past few weeks has been that Ham was the leader for the job. However, a recent report said that some others wanted a more experienced head coach rather than a first-timer like Ham.