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Lakers are adding Greg St. Jean to JJ Redick’s coaching staff

New Lakers head coach JJ Redick now has another assistant on his staff.

The Los Angeles Lakers hired JJ Redick, former NBA sharpshooter and current podcaster, to be their head coach on June 24. After that, it was slow going as far as filling out his coaching staff.

They haven’t been able to hire a few of their targets, including Terry Stotts, the former Portland Trail Blazers head coach who instead joined the Golden State Warriors. A few days ago, Nate McMillan and Scott Brooks, both of whom also have extensive head coaching experience, did say yes to Redick and the Lakers.

Redick’s staff isn’t quite complete yet, but this weekend, Greg St. Jean, a former assistant coach with the Dallas Mavericks and Phoenix Suns, was also reportedly added to that cadre.

St. Jean was a player development coach for the Lakers during the 2019-20 season under Vogel when they won it all.

His father, Garry St. Jean, was the head coach of the Sacramento Kings in the 1990s. The elder St. Jean then became the Warriors’ general manager in 1997 and held that role until 2004.

Greg St. Jean is reportedly a candidate to be a Lakers assistant coach

The Lakers reportedly have another candidate who could become an assistant for their next head coach.

The Los Angeles Lakers are stepping up their process of hiring a new head coach. They have conducted initial interviews with candidates such as JJ Redick, James Borrego and Sam Cassell, and they were scheduled to do a second, in-person interview with Borrego on Wednesday.

There have been multiple reports that have indicated Redick is the favorite to land the job and that it could even be his to lose. In fact, there have reportedly already been discussions about who his staff could include.

Greg St. Jean is one name that has come up in those discussions.

Via Los Angeles Times:

“Former Lakers assistant coach Greg St. Jean, who worked in Dallas for Jason Kidd two seasons ago and with Frank Vogel in Phoenix last season, is another name commonly mentioned in staffing discussions,” wrote Dan Woike.

When the Lakers hired Frank Vogel to be their head coach in 2019, St. Jean was one man hired to be an assistant under him. Two years later, St. Jean followed lead assistant Jason Kidd to the Dallas Mavericks when Kidd became their head coach.

This season, he was reunited with Vogel on the coaching staff of the Phoenix Suns. Vogel was fired about three weeks ago after the star-studded Suns got swept in the first round of the playoffs.

St. Jean’s father, Garry, was a longtime assistant and head coach in the NBA throughout the 1980s and 1990s who later became the general manager of the Golden State Warriors.

Report: Lakers scout, coach Greg St. Jean joining Jason Kidd’s staff with Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd is bringing a Lakers’ staff member with him to Dallas.

Earlier this offseason, former Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Jason Kidd departed his position in L.A. to become a head coach with the Dallas Mavericks.

Kidd joined the Lakers in 2019 when Frank Vogel became the head coach, but the opportunity with Dallas was a perfect move for Kidd.

The Mavericks drafted Kidd in the 1994 NBA draft, and Kidd also won a championship with the franchise in 2011.

When Kidd finalized the move, which is a four-year deal, reports indicated Kidd could seek to bring members of the Lakers staff with him.

Given Kidd has spots to fill in his staff, it would be plausible to promote people over from L.A. with who he had close relationships.

According to NBA reporter Marc Stein, Kidd is bringing over Greg St. Jean from the Lakers:

St. Jean also joined Vogel’s staff in L.A. in 2019 and has served as the team’s advanced scout and player development coach since.

St. Jean previously had roles as an assistant coach with the St. John’s Red Storm basketball team and as an assistant player developmental coach with the Sacramento Kings.

Now the Lakers will need to find a replacement for St. Jean’s position.

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