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Darvin Ham may have had his fair share of struggles as the head coach of the\u00a0Los Angeles Lakers, but he knows how to help a team win the\u00a0NBA\u00a0Cup. Ham, who is now an assistant on\u00a0Doc Rivers’\u00a0Milwaukee Bucks’ coaching staff, is 14-0 in NBA Cup games following the team taking home the trophy on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Many Lakers fans wanted to see Ham gone after last season and the team decided to fire him after getting knocked out in the first-round of the playoffs by the\u00a0Denver Nuggets. However, Ham doesn’t believe he deserved to get let go and decided to go on a rant about his former team.<\/p>\n

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Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Darvin Ham.<\/p>\n

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“To do as well as I did, I swear to God, anywhere else I’m probably looking at an extension with what I did,” Ham told\u00a0Marc Spears of Andscape\u00a0prior to\u00a0the Bucks winning the second-ever NBA Cup. “I’m not talking about feelings. I’m talking actual facts. They go from not making it to the playoffs to the final four in the NBA, the conference finals. And then you win the in-season tournament, navigate through all the injuries and win both your play-in games to get to the playoffs. People always talk about us losing to Denver, but they never talk about how we got to Denver. We beat a kick-ass young squad in Memphis and we beat Golden State.”<\/p>\n

Ham went 90-74 in two seasons with the Lakers and the fact that the team is 14-12 this season only helps his case. Regardless, both sides have moved on but Ham is helping his case that he should get another head coaching job in the offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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