Rumors of Vogel’s flagging job security have been circulating for months, and his dismissal was the widely expected outcome of a 33-49 season.
Vogel finishes his Lakers tenure with a 127-98 record in the regular season, an 18-9 playoff record and the 2020 NBA championship.
In April, as the Lakers’ fate to miss the postseason became clearer, even Vogel showed signs of strain: “It sucks we can’t get over the damn hump,” he said after a loss to Denver. “It’s imperfect but that’s just the nature of our season,” he said. “Having guys in and out of the lineup all year long and we had 11 new players that basically had to audition for a starting job. And when we lost as much as we had, no one earned it on a regular basis.”
“And this year might have been the worst of all of it because the schedule kept going on and they were only testing certain teams that had one positive test,” he said. “And some teams were not getting tested, other teams were getting tested every day. And we got slammed for about a month. So it’s been disruptive.”
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