One more familiar face gone from Redick's bench

A longtime Lakers assistant coach retired last month, the organization confirmed, adding another quiet departure to what has been a summer of near-constant turnover. The name is not in the news cycle the way LeBron's exit was, or the ownership sale, but these things accumulate.

Redick's staff was already navigating a rebuild it didn't ask for. The roster around him has been stripped to its studs — the three-star core gone, the veteran depth scattered to Houston and Phoenix and Philadelphia — and now the coaching staff has its own continuity question to answer before training camp opens. Institutional knowledge matters more, not less, when you're introducing a new center, a handful of young wings, and a franchise player in Doncic who is still working through a day-to-day designation.

This is the part of an organizational reset that doesn't make the highlight packages. Players leave, coaches leave, front-office people leave. The Buss family's fingerprints are mostly gone now. Kushner and Iger are still getting oriented. What's left heading into 2026–27 is a coaching staff with a hole in it, a depth chart held together with two-way deals, and a front office that has changed hands twice in just over a year. Another departure is just another departure. But they do add up.