JJ Redick is retiring the microphone.
The freshly minted Lakers coach is stepping away from his varied podcasts — together with the one just lately launched with LeBron James — as he embarks on a brand new profession observe in Los Angeles with a four-year deal.
“In the meanwhile, and hopefully it’s a really, very very long time, I’m excommunicated from the content material house,” he instructed reporters at his introductory press convention on Monday. “There shall be no podcasts.”
Meaning the “Thoughts the Recreation” podcast with James will come to an finish after simply 9 episodes following its March 19 premiere.
The identical goes for Redick’s “The Outdated Man and the Three” podcast with co-host Tommy Alter, which concluded with a preview of Recreation 5 of the 2024 NBA Finals between the Celtics and Mavericks on June 17 after 274 episodes.
It’s not precisely goodbye endlessly — no less than not but, the 39-year-old mentioned.
“We’ll do one thing when I’ve a breather from what we’ve got arising — I’m gonna be ingesting out of a firehose for the following month,” he mentioned. “In some unspecified time in the future we’ll do one thing for all of the people who’ve listened and we’ll have a small little video. However I’m executed with podcasting for now.”
Redick involves the Lakers after a 15-season NBA profession that spanned six groups.
Since retiring in 2021, he’s changing into huge within the basketball media house by means of his podcast tasks and as an ESPN analyst.
Los Angeles is getting itself a coach with a elegant media presence — even when his teaching background, could go away some with one thing to be desired.
“I’ve by no means coached within the NBA earlier than,” he mentioned with a wry smile. “I don’t know in case you guys have heard that.”
Redick, whose solely earlier teaching expertise was together with his son’s youth group, believes his podcasting background shall be an enormous boon to his success with the Lakers.
“I’d argue that I’m very skilled,” he mentioned. “It began 22 years in the past after I went to Duke and I received to play for Coach Okay for 4 years, spent 15 years as a participant. Actually, the final three years have been invaluable in getting ready me for this second. With the ability to connect with gamers, connecting with them on the podcasts, being in teaching interviews with ESPN, calling video games, analyzing the sport in three completely different codecs — all of that has helped put together me to be an NBA head coach.”
