How Can JJ Redick Build a Long Career With the Lakers? Plus, New All-Star Game Format!

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The NBA has become a wasteland for coaches over the last few months. This week, the Knicks canned Tom Thibodeau, despite just having made the Eastern Conference Finals. Why? The reasons are still emerging, but it's reasonable to say that Thibs is someone who tends to wear on players and organizations over time. The same can be said for Michael Malone, who did last a decade in Denver but clearly wore through his welcome despite having a successful team and a very recent title. Taylor Jenkins in Memphis? Fired. Mike Brown? Mike Budenholzer? All fired. Many had just received contract extensions. All had, on one level or another, been successful, either in that gig, or in others. All gone. So how does JJ Redick, who showed real promise in his first season on LA's sideline but also some shortcomings (particularly in the playoffs) parlay his best qualities into the type of long career the Lakers say they were hoping for when they hired him? How do ownership and management play into the equation? If he can't make it happen, what aspects of his coaching are personality are most likely to be his undoing? HOSTS: Andy and Brian Kamenetzky SEGMENT 1: Thibs is out, the NBA is cold. SEGMENT 2: How can JJ avoid that fate? SEGMENT 3: What qualities will help and hurt Redick? Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! OpenPhoneStreamline and scale your customer communications with OpenPhone. Get 20% off your first 6 months at www.openphone.com/lockedonnba BetterhelpThis episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Your well-being is worth it. Visit BetterHelp.com/lockedonnba today to get 10% off your first month. Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONNBA at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Lockdown Lakers for Thursday.
0:02.6	Brian Keminetsky, Andy Kaminatsky.
0:04.7	How can J.J. Reddick build a long career with the Lakers at a time where no one,
0:11.0	even coaches that win, seem to last.
0:14.5	That's next.
0:23.7	You are lockedon Lakers.
0:30.7	Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:34.1	Thanks to everybody for making Locked on Lakers first listen to every day Monday through Friday,
0:38.2	no matter how where you get your podcast.
0:39.8	This one's always going to be free.
0:41.2	It's never going to be behind a paywall, not on Spotify, not on Apple, where so many of our listeners get their podcasts.
0:48.6	And certainly not on YouTube, where over 35,000 subscribers are all hanging out and wondering whether or not
0:56.6	JJ Reddick is going to be able to build himself a long career in Los Angeles.
1:00.7	Because right now, Andy, it is a cold time for NBA coaches.
1:05.8	It doesn't matter if you win or not.
1:08.3	It doesn't matter if you're an hour and a half before you start the playoffs like Mike Malone in Denver. It doesn't matter if you just made the Western
1:15.3	or Eastern Conference finals like Tom Thibito in New York or if you just signed a contract for
1:22.3	$11,000, billion like Mike Boodenholzer. You're getting canned. There is no patience around this league right now.
1:29.8	Yeah, Tom Fibito, it was, I think, pretty surprising even in this climate
1:35.9	that Tom Fibito would end up getting fired by the Knicks.
1:40.0	He still, as you were talking about, money left on the contract,
1:42.9	I believe you have something like $30 million left on his deal, which, as I've said many times,
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