Dane Johnson is out as South Bay Lakers head coach

It looks like the Los Angeles Lakers want to have a greater focus on the development of young players moving forward. They hired a young head coach in JJ Redick, and they also brought in Beau Levesque to be a player development assistant coach and Ty Abbott to be their lead player development coach.

A sizable part of developing young players in the NBA is having a strong G League program. This past season, Dane Johnson was the head coach of the South Bay Lakers, and he was also tasked with being the head coach of the organization’s summer league team.

However, the organization has now reportedly parted ways with him.

Johnson’s G League Lakers had a mediocre 26-24 record this past season. However, rookie Jalen Hood-Schifino and Maxwell Lewis played well, and big man Colin Castleton had his moments.

Lewis and Castleton also played for the Lakers in summer league last month, yet they lost all three games in the California Classic and went just 3-2 in the main Las Vegas summer league.