An ESPN insider tweeted that Lakers coach Frank Vogel would be fired by the team and informed of the decision as soon as Monday. “My reaction is, I haven’t been told s--- and I’m going to enjoy tonight’s game,” Vogel said after the regular-season finale.
Seventeen minutes later, Vogel was in front of the media, forced to answer questions about the report. Asked directly whether he had spoken with anyone in the Lakers’ front office about his future, Vogel was clear that this was news to him.
Vogel did say he was informed about the tweet before meeting with the media, and he did spend significant time in the hallway outside the Lakers’ locker room meeting with a team communications official.Earlier in the night, the Lakers showcased some of the fight that Vogel has praised his team for throughout the season, a 49-loss team already eliminated from postseason contention coming back from nine points down with 62 seconds left in regulation to force overtime and eventually win.
“He kept his cool the whole time. Didn’t talk about no problems like that. Didn’t talk about anything like that, man. He came in and worked and always gave us a great game plan,” Monk said. “… He was always about us. It was never really about him. And I praise him for that, man. I know that was pretty hard on him, but he never talked about it. He never changed his demeanor. He stayed cool, and yeah man, kudos to Frank.
“I thought he did what he had to do. I mean, he was trying to figure it out just like everybody else was figuring it out with what he had on a nightly basis,” Anthony said. “I mean, we didn’t know. I’m sure he didn’t know what he was going to have on a nightly basis. And then some of those things weren’t things that we couldn’t control.
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