Frank Vogel

The Los Angeles Lakers fired Frank Vogel on Monday, choosing their championship-winning head coach to take the first fall for one of the most disappointing ...

Vogel was hired in May 2019 to assemble a cohesive team around James and Davis, who was officially acquired from New Orleans two months later. He took control of the Lakers’ basketball decisions after Magic Johnson’s abrupt departure in 2019. Davis managed to play in only 40 of their 82 games, while Westbrook struggled mightily to fit into the Lakers’ team concept during one of the worst seasons of his professional career. James also struggled with injuries during the last two years, appearing in only 101 games. “We will forever be grateful to him for his work in guiding us to the 2019-20 NBA championship. Almost nothing has gone right in the ensuing two seasons for the rosters assembled by general manager Rob Pelinka and coached by Vogel, who went 127-98 in his three seasons running the club.

The Los Angeles Lakers have fired Frank Vogel, the coach who led them to the NBA title in 2020.

“At the end of the day I don’t know what’s going to happen with Frank and him being here, but I have nothing but respect for him.” All of us here wish Frank and his wonderful family all the best for the future.” “I have a tremendous amount of respect for Frank both on and off the court,” Lakers vice president of basketball operations and general manager Rob Pelinka said in a statement.

Vogel coached the Lakers to the 2020 championship, but L.A. was the NBA's biggest disappointment this season.

Now, they've moved on from the only coach aside from Jackson to lead them to a championship in the past three decades. The Lakers won the 2020 championship based on their defense, and last season, they ranked No. 1 in the league despite injuries to both LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Not even Vogel could save this season's Lakers roster, though, as they fell to No. 21 in defense. In truth, the Lakers were hardly committed to Vogel even when they hired him. He was a great coach here, and he's going to go on to be a great coach somewhere else. It starts in the front office led by me, and our ability to construct the right roster. Frank Vogel has coached his final game for the Los Angeles Lakers. Vogel was fired by the Lakers on Monday, the team announced.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Frank Vogel masterminded the 17th championship in the Los Angeles Lakers' remarkable history in his first season on their bench.

News about Lakers head coach Frank Vogel's impending firing broke at a very curious time.

A report typically means information was leaked from the respective organization. Vogel's press conference should've been about the rally, Reaves, and a ever-so-rare Lakers win. A young LA team, without all of its key veterans, Russ, LeBron, AD, Carmelo, and Dwight, stormed back from a nine point deficit with just over a minute to go to get the game to overtime.

The franchise's faults run much deeper than just Vogel and firing him was simply making him the scapegoat of a much larger failure that stretches across the ...

The end result is a mess that Vogel was blamed for but runs from the top with Jeanie Buss and Rob Pelinka to LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Rich Paul. Otherwise, the Lakers are going to be back in the same position next season and no scapegoat to blame it on. This past offseason, the team veered away from the defensive style that Vogel won a title with and instead signed a host of offensive-minded players.

Sunday's disgrace was the latest reminder that the Lakers do not value coaches. They lowball them, berate them and discard them.

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The Los Angeles Lakers will reportedly fire head coach Frank Vogel. Here's what Charles Barkley had to say about the situation.

Everyone has seen how the front office has treated Vogel, so who would want to lead this old roster and dysfunctional organization? However, the Lakers need to hit the reset button as much as possible after this season. Handy has experience with James on the Cleveland Cavaliers and Lakers, and Fizdale was on the Miami Heat staff when The King was in South Beach. They could look to their bench, as assistants Phil Handy and David Fizdale are two coaches who fall into that category. “Frank Vogel is getting screwed,” Barkley said on the April 10 episode of Inside the NBA. “Whoever put these old ass geezers together, they deserve the lion’s share (of the blame). They’ve scapegoated Frank, obviously, and Russ [Westbrook] all year. He continued: “To blame Frank and Russ for putting this old ass team together.

Lakers coach Frank Vogel says he hasn't been told anything from the team regarding a report that the franchise has decided to fire him.

The Lakers would lose eight games in a row down the stretch of the season, getting knocked out of contention for the play-in tournament, before winning their final two games. It was a very tough, tough situation for him.” It was a tough situation for him. Asked directly whether he had spoken with anyone in the Lakers’ front office about his future, Vogel was clear that this was news to him. I don’t know what he was thinking. I mean, he was trying to figure it out just like everybody else was figuring it out with what he had on a nightly basis,” Anthony said.

After what must have felt like a never-ending season for the city of Angels, the Los Angeles Lakers wrapped up their season with a rare win over the Denver.

The Lakers will be hoping that both coaches do well so that they can be sure of the investment they are making with whichever coach they decide to hire. One of the most significant changes fans of the Lakers are hoping to see is a change in coaching. There are a lot of changes expected in the offseason.

Los Angeles Lakers head coach Frank Vogel said he had not been told about being fired following the 2021-22 season.

However, it should now overshadow the job he has done during his tenure and he should always be remembered for bringing another title to Los Angeles. I told him it was a very Pistol Pete-esque performance and just an awesome game and awesome ways for our guys to finish out what was a very difficult season.” However, almost as soon as the buzzer sounded a report surfaced that the Lakers were planning on letting go of Vogel soon.

Frank Vogel, who led the Los Angeles Lakers to the 2020 NBA championship, has coached his final game for the organization, a decision expected to be shared ...

Despite entering the season with high expectations, the Lakers were only able to have James, Davis and Russell Westbrook on the floor together for 21 games. Los Angeles was the only team to not have a single five-man lineup play 100 minutes together, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. Frank Vogel, who led the Los Angeles Lakers to the 2020 NBA championship, has coached his final game for the organization, a decision expected to be shared with him as soon as Monday, sources told ESPN.

It was widely expected that Frank Vogel will be fired by the Los Angeles Lakers after once the NBA regular season ended.

On a regular basis, Rambis would get on Vogel in front of staff and players — in practices, in the hallway where everybody can see it. “The players didn’t know who they were answering to, and I think Vogel took the brunt of that because he was the guy they saw every day,” said a league source. It was widely expected that Frank Vogel will be fired by the Los Angeles Lakers after once the NBA regular season ended.

Frank Vogel, who led the Los Angeles Lakers to the 2020 NBA championship, has coached his final game for the organization, a decision expected to be shared with ...

This time around, are the Lakers willing to pay and give some control to a coach with more stature in the league? Vogel’s rotations didn’t help matters at times, he seemed to be throwing everything he could against the wall to see what would stick. Vogel was asked about it when he met with the media.

When Vogel got to the postgame press conference, he seemed clueless when confronted by a reporter about his apparent impending firing.

James is up for a contract extension on Aug. 4, and by then, the Lakers will likely have a new coach. When Vogel got to the postgame press conference, he had no interest in discussing his apparent impending firing. “Tomorrow maybe?

The Los Angeles Lakers ripped the band-aid off on Monday morning when they reportedly fired head coach Frank Vogel. ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski first had the ...

Los Angeles was in line to make the play-in tournament for most of the season, but collapsed down the stretch and fell out of playoff contention. Vogel led the Lakers to an NBA Championship two seasons ago but has come up short since then. — Hibz (@Hibzx)April 11, 2022 — Melissa (@mdrizzy22)April 11, 2022 — gifdsports (@gifdsports)April 11, 2022 ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first had the report shortly after midnight.

Ex-Indiana Pacers head coach Frank Vogel has recently been axed by the Los Angeles Lakers. Should they pursue a reunion with him?

Getting Frank Vogel back would be objectively unlikely, but the Indiana Pacers have a lot of reasons to want him back. After a tumultuous reign in LA, Vogel should easily be able to land another job if he so desires. Despite some cloud casted on him this season, Frank Vogel remains an esteemed coach in the NBA, widely known for his smothering defensive systems.

The Lakers finished the season with a 33-49 record, sitting 11th in the Western Conference, and were eliminated from the playoffs on Tuesday night after ...

Jovan Buha Jovan Buha Jovan Buha Over the next several weeks, expect several other candidates to emerge, including Michigan coach Juwan Howard, who interviewed for the opening in 2019. This season, Toronto finished with a 48-34 record, good for fifth in the Eastern Conference and a playoff berth. The Lakers were Vogel's third team as head coach after stints with the Indiana Pacers and Orlando Magic.

It was only minutes after the Lakers won their final game of the season that ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported the news about Frank Vogel.

This was messy, and it isn’t going to ingratiate the organization in peril to any potential coaching suitors. The lore of the purple and gold may be strong enough to find another strong candidate, but after botching chances to land Ty Lue or Monty Williams back in 2019 before eventually settling on Vogel, who knows? Especially considering so many more people were to blame for this disastrous season, it looks especially bad.

The Los Angeles Lakers have reportedly decided to fire coach Frank Vogel. T "I haven't been told s--t and I'm going to enjoy tonight's game, celebrate what.

This Lakers team was a mess from start to finish, with Vogel failing to find ways to make Russell Westbrook coalesce with LeBron James on the floor and never landing on a consistent rotation. James and Anthony Davis combined to play 96 games; that's a losing formula before even getting to the busted Westbrook gamble. ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported Sunday that the team plans to inform Vogel of his dismissal Monday.

The Lakers, winners of the 2020 NBA championship, entered the season as Western Conference favorites. They failed to live up to that mantle due to a combination ...

Now, they've moved on from the only coach aside from Jackson to lead them to a championship in the past three decades. The Lakers won the 2020 championship based on their defense, and last season, they ranked No. 1 in the league despite injuries to both LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Not even Vogel could save this season's Lakers roster, though, as they fell to No. 21 in defense. In truth, the Lakers were hardly committed to Vogel even when they hired him. He was a great coach here, and he's going to go on to be a great coach somewhere else. It starts in the front office led by me, and our ability to construct the right roster. Frank Vogel has coached his final game for the Los Angeles Lakers. Vogel was fired by the Lakers on Monday, the team announced.

Frank Vogel appears to be out as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers just two years after leading the organization to its 17th NBA championship.

Frank Vogel will be let go as the Lakers' head coach, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.

He helped lead the Lakers to a NBA title during that first season and went 42-30 last season, getting knocked out in the first-round of the NBA playoffs. He ends his three-year stint in Los Angles with a record of 127-98 and a NBA title. The team is expected to make it official Monday, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.

The Lakers are reportedly targeting Raptors head coach Nick Nurse as their replacement for Frank Vogel, whom they're letting go after missing the NBA ...

They’re hoping to replace him with the man who won the year prior. Nurse, 54, led the Raptors to the franchise’s first NBA championship in 2018-19, Kawhi Leonard’s lone season in Toronto. Despite losing Kyle Lowry last summer, the Raptors went 48-34 this season and earned the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Conference, with a first-round NBA playoff matchup against the 76ers on the horizon. The Lakers are set to dump the coach who led them to an NBA championship just two seasons ago.

The Lakers finished the season with a 33-49 record, sitting 11th in the Western Conference, and were eliminated from the playoffs on Tuesday night after ...

Jovan Buha Jovan Buha Jovan Buha Over the next several weeks, expect several other candidates to emerge, including Michigan coach Juwan Howard, who interviewed for the opening in 2019. This season, Toronto finished with a 48-34 record, good for fifth in the Eastern Conference and a playoff berth. The Lakers were Vogel's third team as head coach after stints with the Indiana Pacers and Orlando Magic.

Frank Vogel's tenure as Lakers head coach had not officially ended by the time LeBron James spoke to the media on Monday morning, but all reports indicate ...

Within minutes of Los Angeles finishing its final game of the season Sunday night, a largely meaningless win over the Nuggets, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that would be the final game Frank Vogel coached for the franchise. “I respect Frank as a coach, as a man,” James said. Frank Vogel’s tenure as Lakers head coach had not officially ended by the time LeBron James spoke to the media on Monday morning, but all reports indicate that that conclusion is imminent.

Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis reflected on what it was like to work with Frank Vogel for the three years they were together.

However, the core of LeBron James and Davis should make Los Angeles an attractive landing spot for any coach looking to win immediately. “It’s been good and then the tough thing about this year is we haven’t been able to, just like last year, hasn’t had a chance to coach his full team, but Frank is one of the, I only had three coaches, but he’s one of my favorites. Head coach Frank Vogel was officially let go on Monday morning, a move that seemed inevitable as soon as the Lakers struggled out of the gate.

Frank Vogel, who coached the Lakers to 2020 title, has been fired after three seasons with the team, the last of which was a 33-49 campaign.

But this season marked the second consecutive disappointing finish for the team after the Lakers were dropped in the first round of the NBA playoffs last year against the eventual Western Conference champion Suns. Westbrook struggled to acclimate to a new team. Los Angeles was eliminated from playoff contention Tuesday after a 121-110 loss to the Phoenix Suns.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers fired Frank Vogel on Monday, choosing their championship-winning head coach to take the first fall for one of the ...

Beset by injuries, lineup fit questions and unfulfilled aspirations of being a title contender, the Los Angeles Lakers fired coach Frank Vogel Monday, ...

There has to be a strong alignment between coach and GM on roster decisions [this summer]. … There will be a strong sense of collaboration on roster decisions, as there was with Frank.” Pelinka said he believes James still views Los Angeles “as a long-term home.” Vogel deployed small-ball lineups with James at center in an attempt to create space for Westbrook and overcome his lack of credible interior options, but the strategy didn’t prove to be a workable solution. “I have a tremendous amount of respect for Frank both on and off the court,” Pelinka said in a statement. In the face of disappointment, our fans expect more.” “Frank is a great coach and a good man. Despite plenty of early-season warning signs, the Lakers stood pat at the trade deadline and then fell apart down the stretch, going 6-18 after the all-star break. “I respect Frank as a coach and a man. A summer overhaul included the departures of Kyle Kuzma, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Alex Caruso, robbing the Lakers of key members of James’s supporting cast during the 2020 title run in the Disney World bubble. That proved problematic: The Lakers’ stilted offense ranked 22nd despite James averaging 30.3 points, 8.2 rebounds and 6.2 assists, and its unorganized defense slipped from No. 1 in efficiency last year to No. 21. Vogel denied knowledge of the move during his postgame news conference. “I’m going to enjoy tonight’s game.

The Lakers fired coach Frank Vogel after a disappointing, injury-plagued season two years after he led the team to the franchise's 17th NBA title.

They would go on to lead the eventual conference champion Suns 2-1 before groin and knee injuries knocked Davis out of the series. We played, what, a quarter of the season together? Then the reality of an aging roster, and injuries to LeBron James and Anthony Davis, set in. Davis would return and get reinjured right before the All-Star break, suffering a mid-foot sprain when he landed on Rudy Gobert’s heel. The team would later to travel to Orlando, Fla., where it spent more than 100 days inside a bubble, to finish the NBA season and defeat Miami for the NBA championship, the Lakers’ record-tying 17th title. “I’m so proud of that,” Vogel said that night about the Lakers’ defensive dominance. He said the search would be “thorough and methodical.” It culminated with a 49-loss season during which the Lakers were never more than three games over .500 and in which Vogel used 41 starting lineups. “I want to thank him for three really strong years,” said Rob Pelinka, the Lakers’ vice president of basketball operations and general manager, wishing Vogel and his family well in the future. It starts with the front office led by me and our ability to construct the right roster. And it goes to our players to play at … with on-court execution at the highest level because that’s what Lakers fans expect and deserve from all of us. Vogel ended up taking the job, agreeing to work with Jason Kidd as his top assistant.

The Los Angeles Lakers fired head coach Frank Vogel on Monday after his team finished 33-49, the team announced.

Despite entering the season with high expectations, the Lakers were only able to have James, Davis and Russell Westbrook on the floor together for 21 games. Vogel was hired in May 2019 to assemble a cohesive team around James and Davis, who was officially acquired from the New Orleans Pelicans two months later. It starts in the front office led by me, and our ability to construct the right roster. He was a great coach here, and he's going to go on to be a great coach somewhere else.'' Los Angeles was the only team to not have a single five-man lineup play 100 minutes together, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. Pelinka doesn't plan to replace Vogel immediately, and he said he hasn't even assembled a list of potential candidates.

The Lakers will cast a wide net for their next head coach. Will they hire a current or former NBA coach or turn to a high-profile college coach?

Joerger, a recent cancer survivor, was the head coach for Memphis and Sacramento and has a track record of getting the most out of his teams. Calipari has a better relationship with New York Knicks front office execs Leon Rose and William Wesley. Calipari hasn’t been to the Final Four with Kentucky since 2015 and his only title with the Wildcats came in 2012. Rambis has been a head coach with Minnesota (two seasons and a combined 32 victories) and an interim coach with the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers. The former Lakers forward, whose wife Linda is a longtime Lakers employee, has spent most of his time on a bench as an assistant or associate head coach. Word has been brewing in Michigan that the Lakers may make a run at the Wolverines men’s coach who has had success in a short time as a head coach, including an NCAA regional final appearance in 2021 and regional semifinal appearance in 2022. He also helped Damian Lillard’s rise to All-Star guard and won without the best roster in the league. Jackson has a good relationship with Klutch Sports’ Rich Paul, who represents James and Anthony Davis. It’s probably a long shot but one that shouldn’t be dismissed automatically with the Paul-Jackson connection. What influence Klutch has in a coaching search is unknown, but Paul will be in the know. It's possible the Raptors would let Nurse walk without compensation, and Nurse has formed a relationship with former Lakers coach Phil Jackson who talks regularly with Lakers director of basketball affairs Kurt Rambis. It can be argued that Nurse has a better and more promising roster with the Raptors than the Lakers have right now. If the Philadelphia 76ers don’t make a deep run in the playoffs, Rivers could be out in Philadelphia. Rivers and president of basketball operations Daryl Morey may not be mortal enemies, but they don’t necessarily see eye to eye on basketball philosophy. However, the Lakers do not appear to be a good fit for Snyder. He coached the Memphis Grizzlies and New York Knicks – one-plus season with each team – from 2016-2020.

Vogel was the 27th head coach in franchise history. During his tenure, Vogel compiled a 127-98 (.564) record and led the Lakers to their 17th NBA championship ...

All of us here wish Frank and his wonderful family all the best for the future.” “I have a tremendous amount of respect for Frank both on and off the court,” said Rob Pelinka, the Lakers Vice President of Basketball Operations and General Manager. “Frank is a great coach and a good man. Vogel was the 27th head coach in franchise history.