Lakers assistant Miles Simon to coach South Bay Lakers

For the adjacent manager of the Lakers’ G League affiliate, the enactment kept things successful house.

Lakers adjunct Miles Simon has been hired to manager the South Bay Lakers, retaining a subordinate of the unit who is focused connected improvement arsenic the Lakers’ roster has gotten dramatically older this offseason.

Simon, who volition stay an adjunct with the genitor club, has worked connected the staffs of some Luke Walton and Frank Vogel and is viewed arsenic 1 of the coaches who helped young draught picks similar Josh Hart, Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma develop. The Lakers are looking to spot if Simon tin bring that accomplishment acceptable to the G League, wherever a squad that helped make Alex Caruso and Talen Horton-Tucker is looking for its adjacent occurrence story.

Simon has antecedently coached 2 Summer League teams, including the 2017 Lakers squad that won a summertime league title. The erstwhile Arizona and Mater Dei High standout volition get a accidental to amusement however his caput coaching chops construe to a afloat season. He reportedly interviewed for the caput coaching opening astatine Arizona successful the past year.

“Miles has been an integral subordinate of the Lakers enactment for galore years, some arsenic an adjunct manager connected a title squad and arsenic the person of our summertime league rosters,” South Bay wide manager Nick Mazzella said successful a squad statement. “His quality to make players volition beryllium captious to our franchise and we cognize that helium volition physique a winning and affirmative ambiance astir our organization.”

Simon takes implicit for erstwhile Laker Coby Karl, who coached the squad to a 19-25 grounds successful the 2019-20 season. The Lakers decided to skip the G League bubble past season, which was played successful Walt Disney World.

The Lakers person nary of their ain first-round draught picks remaining connected the roster aft trading Kuzma successful the offseason, and Horton-Tucker is the lone remaining subordinate who the franchise drafted themselves. The Lakers signed two-way players Joel Ajayi and Austin Reaves successful July.

“It is an grant to pb specified a palmy franchise and I look guardant to moving with our squad some connected and disconnected the court,” Simon said successful a squad statement. “South Bay has a beardown way grounds of processing NBA endowment and I can’t hold to physique upon our past arsenic 1 of the apical teams successful the NBA G League.”