After initially reporting in early June that Rasheed Wallace was on track to join the Lakers‘ coaching staff as one of new head coach Darvin Ham‘s assistants, Shams Charania of The Athletic says that’s no longer happening. Wallace won’t be part of Ham’s staff after all, according to Charania.
Emiliano Carchia of Sportando first reported on Friday (via Twitter) that Wallace was “very unlikely” to become a Lakers assistant.
Wallace, who played for six NBA teams from 1995-2013, made four All-Star teams and won a championship during that time, compiling more than 16,000 career points and over 7,400 career rebounds. He has done a little coaching since retiring, including with the Pistons in 2013/14 and as an assistant with the University of Memphis in ’21/22.
Ham and Wallace were teammates in Detroit for parts of two seasons in 2004 and 2005, winning a title together in ’04.
Ham confirmed in June that Wallace was a candidate for an assistant coaching role with the Lakers — it’s unclear why it didn’t work out. Perhaps either Wallace or the Lakers decided to go in another direction before talks got serious, or maybe the two sides couldn’t reach an agreement on Wallace’s role and/or financial compensation.
Both guys coach hard
Or perhaps the players on the team are too soft and sensitive for someone like Wallace to come in and tell them like it is. For Wallace, it’s his pro and con.
Dang, Lebron trade this guy already??
Rasheed paved the way for stretch bigs . I remember he would get a lot of flack early for leaving the paint, didn’t take long for coaches to give him the green light and thus other Bigs seeing it more of an option
Really underrated player that you probably had to watch live to appreciate and a bit of a trailblazer for bigs that he never seems to get any credit for
2x champion Bill Laimbeer (a stretch big), says hi.
Laimbeer averaged 0.6 3 point attempts a game
Sheed-3.7
Real True Talk!!! Sheed was one of the original stretch bigs they give Dirk a lot the credit when Sheed had been stretching the floor. Sheed had the post, the midrange, and long range game, it was pick your poison with Sheed.
As a LAL fan, I wish he’d be part of the staff. Too bad. AD could have learned a lot from him.
I agree I was looking forward to seeing how AD was going to play after being coached up by Sheed.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeed