If Tyronn Lue is chosen as coach for USA Basketball’s subsequent males’s nationwide workforce, he might get to do one thing no coach has ever finished: Host an Olympic basketball match at his workplace. Lue’s day job, it’s possible you’ll know, is to educate the LA Clippers, the place he’s beneath contract via the 2028-29 season for about $70 million and has but to have a dropping season. The Clippers opened the $2 billion Intuit Dome this 12 months, a shocking, state-of-the-art, crown jewel of a basketball area in Inglewood, Calif., Steve Ballmer’s model of AT&T; Stadium (aka Jerry World) exterior of Dallas. Intuit simply occurs to be the chosen area for Olympic basketball when Los Angeles hosts the Summer season Video games in 4 years. “Yeah, it sounds wonderful,” Lue mentioned. “To be the Olympic head coach on this constructing, in fact, all people would have a look at that as a cool alternative, however there’s rather a lot that goes into it. To be chosen to do this is an honor and a blessing, however it’s not one thing I’m hanging my hat on as a result of it’s two years away and Erik Spoelstra was concerned in USA Basketball earlier than I even received right here.” -via New York Instances / December 5, 2024
