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Bill Plaschke: If Lakers hire Tyronn Lue as coach, just hand LeBron James the keys

LOS ANGELES_In making this monumental choice, the Lakers had no choice. There were several candidates but zero options. The announcement has not yet been made, but the matter was decided nearly a year ago.

In a perfect world, Tyronn Lue is not the next Lakers coach. But the Lakers don't live in a perfect world, they live in a LeBron James world, and so any moment now the inevitable reunion should be complete.

Lue is expected to be named as the new Lakers bench boss, rejoining the player he coached to an NBA championship in Cleveland. If hearing this makes you cringe, surely you saw it coming. While

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