Shaquille O’Neal is intrigued in turning out to be the future in a line of retired Los Angeles Lakers stars to mentor the crew.
Only a single catch: He wishes $100 million to choose the job.
“If the Lakers present me $25 million a calendar year for 4 years, I’ll mentor the Lakers,” the host mentioned on “The Large Podcast with Shaq.” “I have to have a four-yr deal. I’ll coach them appropriate now. … I know you ain’t look at my great buddy Grasp P, but if you want me, this is the cost.”
O’Neal has zero coaching credentials, except it's possible that he appears to be able to get through to a struggling Russell Westbrook. Through a brilliant place in an otherwise disappointing year for Westbrook and the Lakers, Westbrook credited O’Neal for helping him turn it on.
“Shaq was giving me some superior assistance about altering speeds at unique situations coming up the ground,” Westbrook explained in February, “which was very practical not just in that recreation but as I enjoy myself going ahead and attempting to keep on carrying out that the relaxation of the calendar year.”
New England Patriots mentor Bill Belichick is believed to be the optimum-compensated mentor in North American professional sports activities, at a noted $18 million for each yr
The Lakers are a mess: They missed the playoffs regardless of fielding a roster with LeBron James, Westbrook and Anthony Davis. Coach Frank Vogel, who was at the helm when the Lakers gained the 2020 NBA title, was fired soon after the year.
O’Neal is a studio analyst for the “NBA on TNT.” But the Lakers have a record of diving into their previous for coaches, from Magic Johnson to Byron Scott to Luke Walton.
As for Grasp P’s involvement, the rapper not too long ago advised TMZ that he could promise championships if he was employed as Lakers head mentor, with O’Neal serving as his assistant coach. Learn P, whose real title is Percy Robert Miller Sr., was on the training-camp rosters of a number of NBA teams in the late 1990.
Shaq did incorporate he’d like to see Mark Jackson get a probability to mentor the Lakers.
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