Less than two years ago, LeBron James loved Darvin Ham.
“So damn excited,” he tweeted when the Lakers hired their rookie coach.
Less than a year ago, Rob Pelinka was thankful for Darvin Ham.
“I’m incredibly grateful for Darvin, mostly because of just his character and makeup,” Pelinka said to reporters, later adding, “And it’s easy just to focus on Xs and O’s. But I think when you lead with character, and you get a locker room to rally around belief, that’s a special intangible skill that I don’t think a lot of coaches have.