NBA rumors: Lakers will move on from Ty Lue after contract 'impasse' originally appeared on nbcsportsbayarea.com The Los Angeles Lakers just can't get out of their own way, and Warriors fans are loving it. In the aftermath of the Magic Johnson debacle, the Lakers should have quietly gone about hiring a new president of basketball operations and then a new head coach. Instead, the Lakers have embarked on a search for a new coach without a president of basketball operations, and they, unsurprisingly, landed on Tyronn Lue.