Assistant Mark Madsen won’t be around to work with the Lakers‘ next coach, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who tweets that Madsen has accepted a job as head coach at Utah Valley University.
Madsen, 43, joined the Lakers’ staff in 2014 as an assistant to Byron Scott. After a 10-year NBA career, Madsen became a G League assistant in Utah in 2012 and was named head coach of the Lakers’ affiliate a year later.
There’s no word yet on what might happen to the rest of the Lakers’ staff after head coach Luke Walton agreed to part ways with the team on Friday.
Take them dancing Mark.
Hopefully, the rest of the Lakers coaching staff is headed to Sacramento with Luke Walton! Can they please take Rob Pestinka too while they’re at it?
Pretty cool for the guys at Utah Valley to say that they are tangentially connected to LeBron James.
Mad Dog will make a fine college coach, good luck big fella