The Los Angeles Lakers are hiring Lindsey Harding to be an assistant on first-time head trainer JJ Redick’s personnel, ESPN reported.
Harding, 40, simply finished her first season as the pinnacle trainer of the Stockton (Calif.) Kings and used to be named the G League Trainer of the Yr after a 24-10 end.
Harding, who interviewed for the Charlotte Hornets’ head training emptiness in April, will be the fourth energetic feminine assistant trainer within the NBA together with Jenny Boucek (Indiana Pacers), Brittni Donaldson (Atlanta Hawks) and Sonia Raman (Memphis Grizzlies).
Harding has an extended historical past with Redick. She used to be a participant building trainer with the Philadelphia 76ers when he performed there all through the 2018-19 season, and each have been All-American citizens at Duke within the mid-2000s.
Redick’s present training personnel comprises former NBA head coaches Nate McMillan and Scott Brooks, together with Greg St. Jean.
Harding used to be decided on first general within the 2007 WNBA Draft after profitable Naismith Nationwide Participant of the Yr honors.
She spent 9 seasons within the WNBA with the Minnesota Lynx (2007-08), Washington Mystics (2009-10), Atlanta Dream (2011-12), Los Angeles Sparks (2013-14), New York Liberty (2016) and Phoenix Mercury (2016). In 270 profession video games (210 begins), she averaged 9.8 issues, 4.0 assists and a couple of.9 rebounds.
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