.The Los Angeles Lakers have actually ultimately made a clean choice for the latest head instructor of their El Segundo-based G Game partner team, the South Gulf Lakers.Sources notify Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN that South Gulf is employing long time aide coach Zach Guthrie. Guthrie has formerly served on the staffs of the Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks and Utah Jazz.Guthrie had operated under then-Utah Jazz music scalp instructor Quin Snyder (right now with the Atlanta Hawks) coming from 2016-20, along with Dallas Mavericks then-head coach Rick Carlisle in 2020-21, and also very most recently for the Wizards under then-head trainer Wes Unseld Jr. beginning in 2021. Unseld was fired up midway with 2023-24, and was changed through assistant coach Brian Keefe. This spring, Keefe was marketed from an interim function in to the group's permanent scalp coach.As a scalp coach, Guthrie directed the Wizards' 2022 Summertime Game squad.Per the National Basketball Coaches Association, Guthrie also functioned as an aide video recording coordinator for the San Antonio Spurs, under scalp trainer Gregg Popovich, and also a supervisor of state-of-the-art searching for the Orlando Magic.South Gulf went 26-24 during the course of its own 2023-24 time, under previous head coach Dane Johnson. Johnson was actually canned final month, after only one year on the job.Read Much more: South Bay Lakers Fire Head Coach Dane JohnsonThe G Organization is the NBA's developing minor league unit. Presently, 3 gamers are actually tattooed to two-way agreements with Los Angeles: tiny Blake Hinson, ahead Armel Traore, and also center Colin Castleton. Two-way players are toggled between the Lakers appropriate and also the South Gulf Lakers. 3 players are affirmed to have actually been actually inked to Exhibit 10 training school deals along with L.A., as well as will definitely likely participate in South Bay on partner deals: electrical power forward/center Kylor Kelley, point guard Quincy Olivari and also protection Jordan Goodwin. All 15 basic roster spots for L.A. and all 3 two-way spots are filled, yet in theory players can be waived if Lakers brass definitely loves what it finds from some of these guys. Possibly very most significantly, Guthrie will be actually entrusted with establishing the play of raw newbie point guard Bronny James, the 19-year-old kid of returning Lakers All-Star ahead LeBron James. Bronny James was actually chosen along with the No. 55 overall selection in this particular summer season's 2024 NBA Draught after a poor one-and-done keep up USC. He underperformed again in Summer months Organization play with Los Angeles. Johnson had acted as the club's head train in the course of that tenure, and was actually shot soon thereafter.More Lakers: Trae Youthful Details 3 Lakers on All-Time NBA Crew.