Byron Scott Unsure JJ Redick Good Fit For Lakers Job, Has No Experience!

JJ Redick is a legit applicant for the Lakers head — even with by no implies acquiring spent a moment on the bench — and Byron Scott is not marketed on the notion quite but!

The 3x NBA champ and former longtime NBA head coach talked to TMZ Sports this 7 days about Redick — a 15 seasons NBA vet — and the possible prospects of him landing a single of the most coveted employment in all of sports … L.A. Lakers head coach.

“It is challenging jumping in that seat as a initially-time head coach,” Scott stated.

“I you ought to not know if he has what it can take to be a terrific head mentor in the NBA but after much more if he will get that prospect, we will find out correct quickly.”

Scott even gives up the failed Steve Nash choosing in Brooklyn … specifically exactly where the preceding NBA MVP, in spite of acquiring Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, could not get regularly.

He purchased the boot a handful of seasons following he was employed.

“[Nash] hardly ever skilled any coaching experience and it did not absolutely function out completely in Brooklyn for him,” Scott claimed.

Scott does have a handful of candidates in thoughts … Sam Cassell, who has been an NBA assistant mentor considering the fact that 2009, and Mark Jackson, who coached Steph Curry and the Golden Warriors just before Steve Kerr.

Scott even presented his solutions … attempt to don’t forget, he coached the Nets, Hornets, Cavs, and Lakers following retiring from the league as a player.

He also received Coach of the Year in 2008.