Brian Shaw Quietly Waits for Opportunity
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BOSTON -- Brian Shaw could take the direct route, walking straight to Dr. Jerry Buss' office to ask the man with the plan himself rather than reading the tea leaves like everybody else.But Laker Land doesn't work that way, so the Lakers assistant will keep working while wondering if the promotion he so badly wants will ever come.
Lakers head coach. Phil Jackson's successor. Get in line.
Shaw is hardly the lone former Laker to covet this job. Minnesota coach Kurt Rambis pined over the post for years while a Lakers assistant until finally moving on. Byron Scott improved teams in New Jersey and New Orleans/Oklahoma City while never completely closing that Lakers door, negotiating contractual exit strategies at both stops so he could head back to Staples Center if the Lakers owner ever called for his comeback. And then there's Shaw, who played the final four of his 14 seasons with the Lakers before retiring in 2002, became a scout a year later and an assistant in 2004.
"I think being a head coach of the Lakers is probably one of -- if not the -- best job in sports," Shaw said at Lakers practice in Los Angeles last week before Boston tied the NBA Finals 1-1 on Sunday. "Anybody who's in coaching would love to have an opportunity to be the head coach of this team.
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