In January, Jeanie Buss publicly backed Luke Walton to remain as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers in 18-19 amid reports of the team's interest in David Fizdale.

"What you know is this with the Lakers, Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka did not hire Luke Walton," said Adrian Wojnarowski. "They inherited him. Jeanie Buss is fiercely loyal to him. She's protected him. There were times last year where management thought that team was underachieving early and then they got on a surge and played much better down the stretch.

"But she, to this point, has not let anyone mess with Walton. It'll be interesting to see how LeBron takes to him and what that means because it's different with LeBron. If he doesn't take to him, they'll have to get a new coach. He's going to have to want to play with him. I'm not presuming LeBron won't love him."