Mike Brown has been fired after a disappointing 1-4 start to the season, the team announced Friday.
Assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff will take over as interim coach for Friday night’s home game against the Warriors.
“Today we relieved Mike Brown of his head coaching duties with the Los Angeles Lakers. Mike is a good man. Very hard working, maybe one of the hardest-working coaches that I’ve ever been around,” general manager Mitch Kupchak said. “The bottom line is that the team is not winning at the pace that we expected this team to win and we didn’t see improvement. We wish Mike well and we’re sorry it ended this way. So, we’ve decided to move in another direction and make a change.”
A source with knowledge of the Lakers’ thinking said the firing was done “more to stop what was happening than to pursue anybody else.”
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