Report: Lakers hire McMillan, Brooks as Redick's top assistants

Longtime NBA head coaches Nate McMillan and Scott Brooks are joining the Los Angeles Lakers as the top assistants on JJ Redick's staff, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

The two veteran coaches have worked a combined 2,363 NBA games and are expected to support Redick in his first year as a bench boss.

McMillan was most recently in charge of the Atlanta Hawks in 2022-23. He replaced Lloyd Pierce midway through 2020-21 and went on to lead the club to the Eastern Conference finals that year. He went 99-80 in two-and-a-half seasons in Atlanta before the team fired him in February 2023. McMillan first worked behind the bench in the 1999-00 campaign as an assistant to Paul Westphal on the Seattle Supersonics.

Along with Seattle, he was also head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and Indiana Pacers for several seasons.

Brooks spent seven campaigns as head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder, followed by five with the Washington Wizards. He made multiple postseason appearances with both, including a run to the Finals in 2012 with the Thunder and their then-star trio of Kevin Durant, James Harden, and Russell Westbrook. Brooks has also been an assistant on several coaching staffs, including this past season's Portland Trail Blazers alongside Chauncey Billups.

McMillan and Brooks have never previously worked together in the league. They also never served as head coaches for Redick, who played 15 NBA seasons on six different teams.