Tyronn Lue, head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers, spoke about some of his plans and aspirations for the future.
Tyronn Lue first served as a head coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2016 to 2018. He then became the head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers in 2020, a position he still holds today.
Tyronn Lue appeared on the Club Shay Shay podcast, where he discussed how he would one day like to coach the Los Angeles Lakers.
“”I would have loved it. I mean, it would have been a dream come true.”
Lue also revealed that he had an offer from the Lakers when he left the Cavaliers, but he was not satisfied with the offer for several reasons.
“One, they offered me short years, they offered me three years, and I wanted to do five. I guess because they were trying to tie me to LeBron James.
Two, the money was low, well, I’m saying it wasn’t low like for me personally, the money, it was low for the head coach, and for what it meant to everybody else going forward. It’s kind of like the players’ association.
If you take a bad deal, they’re going to give us all bad deals. And so, I just felt for me being a championship coach and being black, I thought it was up to me to make sure I set the standard. If I take a bad deal, then what’s everybody else going to get, you know?”
He also revealed another reason why that offer was not good.
“I couldn’t pick my coaching staff. Well, they wouldn’t let me pick my coaching staff for me, and so I had to leave a lot of guys behind,” Tyronn Lue said.
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