LOS ANGELES — Lindsey Harding, last season’s G League coach of the year, will join JJ Redick’s first staff with the Los Angeles Lakers, The Los Angeles Times has learned from multiple people not authorized to discuss the negotiations.

Should she be hired, she’d be the first full-time female assistant in team history.

Harding, 40, played college basketball at Duke at the same time as Redick. She was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 WNBA draft and had a nine-season career in the WNBA with Minnesota, Washington, Atlanta, Las Vegas, New York and Phoenix.

She worked in Philadelphia while Redick was a player for the 76ers before moving to Sacramento, where she has been an assistant for the last five seasons, including her time in the G League when she coached the Stockton Kings.

She interviewed for the head coaching job in Charlotte earlier this summer. Harding will become one of four women currently holding assistant coaching positions in the league.

The Lakers’ staff will also include former head coaches Scott Brooks and Nate McMillan as well as former Lakers assistant Greg St. Jean. Former Charlotte and Orlando assistant Bob Beyer is also expected to be on the staff.

Redick has been in Las Vegas with the Lakers for summer league and has been conducting interviews to fill out his staff, which he has said will have an emphasis on player development.

Harding was the first Black female head coach in G League history. Her coach-of-the-year award was voted on by league coaches and general managers.

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