{"id":169164,"date":"2025-09-25T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169164\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:05:09","slug":"jj-redick-lakers-agree-to-contract-extension-before-2025-26-nba-season-pelinka-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169164\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Redick, Lakers Agree to Contract Extension Before 2025-26 NBA Season, Pelinka Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick has received a contact extension ahead of his second season with the team, general manager Rob Pelinka announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

Redick previously signed a four-year deal<\/a> reportedly worth $32 million with the Lakers ahead of the 2024-25 season. <\/p>\n

The Lakers went 50-32 in Redick’s first year as head coach before losing to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

At the time of his hiring last summer, Redick had no prior coaching experience in the NBA. He spent 15 seasons with six teams as a player before retiring after the 2020-21 campaign, then worked as an ESPN analyst prior to joining the Lakers.<\/p>\n

The Lakers had apparently been willing to offer more term to a more experienced candidate when hiring last summer. Adrian Wojnarowski<\/a> reported last year for ESPN that the Lakers been rejected by Dan Hurley after offering the UConn head coach a six-year deal.<\/p>\n

Redick apparently impressed the franchise enough to earn a longer deal after claiming 50 wins in his first season on an NBA sideline.<\/p>\n

Pelinka said Thursday that the decision to extend Redick was “just to make it clear that he’s the basketball leader in terms of our coaching and on-court performance.”<\/p>\n

Redick’s new deal comes after Luka Don\u010di\u0107 signed a three-year extension that runs through 2028 with a player option for 2029-30.<\/p>\n

Considering that LeBron James’ future with the franchise is uncertain as he heads into the 2025-26 season on an expiring deal, it looks like the Lakers are betting on Redick and Don\u010di\u0107 to lead the team back to championship contention in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick has received a contact extension ahead of his second season with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-169164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}