{"id":693107,"date":"2026-04-02T02:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693107\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:37:19","slug":"lakers-coach-jj-redick-says-hes-got-a-lot-left-to-accomplish-after-100th-win-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693107\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers coach JJ Redick says he\u2019s \u2018got a lot left to accomplish\u2019 after 100th win \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Lakers coach JJ Redick ran through a list of the team\u2019s assorted milestones during a speech after a 127-113 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He shouted out forward Rui Hachimura recording his 5,000th career point. Redick celebrated Luka Doncic\u2019s historic month of March (one of just 10 NBA players to score 600 points in any month) to go along with reaching 15,000 career points. He mentioned the latest LeBron James milestone, the 41-year-old breaking the career wins record (regular season and playoff wins combined), passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.<\/p>\n

There was plenty to honor in the Lakers\u2019 locker room \u2013 not to mention the team\u2019s 50th win, the first time since Phil Jackson was coach that the Lakers (50-26) have had consecutive 50-win campaigns (2007-11). But Redick didn\u2019t get to himself. In a video shared by the Lakers\u2019 social media accounts on Wednesday morning<\/a>, President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Rob Pelinka<\/a> interjected at the end of Redick\u2019s postgame talk, holding the basketball behind his back.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have one more accolade tonight, but we got to roll the video first,\u201d Pelinka said.<\/p>\n

And that started the celebrations for Redick, who achieved his 100th career victory on Tuesday, the team having gone 15-2 in March. On the locker room television, Redick\u2019s pre-teen sons, Knox and Kai, wished him congratulations as he turned visibly emotional over the sentiment arranged by the Lakers for his coaching milestone.<\/p>\n

From that moment, the true celebrations could begin. In Indiana last week, a reporter asked Redick about his work\/life balance; and if the idea of there being a balance is a lie or not. Redick responded by recalling a conversation he had with Pelinka during the interviewing process for the Lakers job.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018When are you going to watch film?\u2019\u201d Redick remembered. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018A lot. I\u2019ll watch it throughout the day. But from 3 o\u2019clock when my kids are out of school, to 8:30 when they go to bed, I\u2019m not going to watch film.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

For those five hours, Redick said, his family has his attention. That\u2019s his balance, navigating the intensity of NBA coaching and fatherhood. If there\u2019s an off day on the weekend, he said, his priority is attending his sons\u2019 travel basketball tournaments, putting on his fan hat for his kids at their flag football games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s four burners on the stove and those four burners are work, health, family and friends \u2013 and it\u2019s very hard to have all four burners going,\u201d Redick said on March 18 in Houston<\/a>. \u201cFor me, in-season, it is work and family.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, the Lakers have become a family of their own on the court.<\/a> Gone are the questions about the trio of stars\u2019 production, or if their defensive traits could hold up against the better NBA teams.<\/p>\n

Redick has the Lakers playing to their roles.<\/a> Jake LaRavia<\/a> is diving for loose balls. Austin Reaves<\/a> is driving his way into contact and to the free-throw line as James\u2019 high-IQ plays<\/a> set up Luka Doncic for 40-point nights<\/a>. Deandre Ayton is crashing the boards<\/a>, while Marcus Smart sets the tone defensively<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was a confluence of things starting with health,\u201d Redick said when asked about how the Lakers succeeded through arguably their toughest stretch of the season. \u201cI think it\u2019s much easier when you have a consistent stretch of health to \u2013 not even buy in \u2013 but settle into roles and minutes and rotations.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, Redick reiterated multiple times during his postgame press conference that the team\u2019s leadership comes from each individual on the team; not one or two players driving the Lakers\u2019 rousing run toward the postseason. After the Lakers beat the Washington Wizards on Monday<\/a>, James shared that he felt that the Lakers\u2019 chemistry is \u201chigh\u201d heading into April, a team firing on all cylinders coached by Redick, his former podcast co-host<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in a good place right now,\u201d James said. \u201cEveryone loves being around each other. We love playing for one another. We love being off the floor with one another. It\u2019s a good tight-knit group and we got to carry that for the rest of the regular season.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the Lakers defeat the league-leading Oklahoma City Thunder (60-16)<\/a> on Thursday night, Redick will have win No. 101; coaching the job he feels he was meant for.<\/p>\n

His parents, as Redick put it, \u201cwere hippies who grew up out in the sticks.\u201d They lived in Tennessee and Virginia. Redick\u2019s father worked in pottery and was an artist. At some point, Redick said, his family needed to improve financially, and so his dad, Ken, became a counselor.<\/p>\n

\u201cEventually, both him and my mom became life coaches,\u201d Redick said. \u201cAnd for most of the entirety that I played basketball, that\u2019s how I\u2019ve operated \u2013 with that mindset to help people, to coach people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redick said that throughout his 15-year NBA playing career<\/a>, he relished helping the younger players with the New Orleans Pelicans or Philadelphia 76ers, those stints coming during his final handful of seasons. The \u201cnatural extension\u201d of Redick\u2019s upbringing eventually paid dividends from veteran leader status into a fully-fledged coaching career despite never having served on an NBA staff.<\/p>\n

When Redick interviewed for the Toronto Raptors\u2019 head coach opening in 2023<\/a>, a job that eventually went to Darko Rajakovic, he knew that becoming an NBA head coach was his future, meant for the type of person he would become.<\/p>\n

\u201cI left Toronto and said, \u2018I wanna be an NBA coach,\u2019\u201d Redick said. \u201cIt was an obsession of mine for a full year and a half before I ever got the (Lakers job).\u201d<\/p>\n

Redick\u2019s Lakers are now just three victories away from the most wins the franchise has had in a season since Jackson led the 2010-11 team to a 57-win campaign. The 41-year-old coach still has a long way to go before reaching the heights of Hall-of-Famers like Jackson or Pat Riley, another former player who transitioned from media personality to Lakers coach.<\/p>\n

And he knows it.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t deserve to be mentioned along with Phil or Pat or any of those guys,\u201d Redick said. \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot left to accomplish for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

LAKERS AT THUNDER<\/p>\n

When: Thursday, 6:30 p.m. PT<\/p>\n

Where: Paycom Center, Oklahoma City<\/p>\n

TV\/Radio: Spectrum SportsNet, Prime Video, 710 AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Lakers coach JJ Redick ran through a list of the team\u2019s assorted milestones during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,300,6,297,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-693107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-detroitpistons","12":"tag-lakers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-pistons","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116332793879237966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}