Alexander: Lakers firing Darvin Ham was predictable, but is that it?

Darvin Ham was the definition of Fired Coach Walking for weeks, as it turns out. Even 47 regular-season victories, good enough only for the play-in round in a rugged Western Conference, weren’t enough to save a second-year coach from the expectations of a legacy franchise and its entitled fan base.
But the shame shouldn’t lie so much in Ham’s dismissal, made official with a one-paragraph statement by vice president/GM Rob Pelinka at 11:15 Friday morning, as it is in the process