Eddie Jordan, Bernie Bickerstaff and Steve Clifford join Lakers

By Ben Bolch

Sept. 7, 2012 12 AM PT

The Lakers on Friday added a trio of veteran coaches to Mike Brown’s staff, hiring Eddie Jordan, Steve Clifford and Bernie Bickerstaff as assistants.

Jordan, a former head coach with the Philadelphia 76ers and Washington Wizards who was also a guard on the Lakers’ 1982 championship team, is expected to help Brown implement some aspects of the Princeton offense.

Clifford spent the last five seasons as an assistant coach with the Orlando Magic alongside new Lakers center Dwight Howard. Bickerstaff has been a head coach with four different teams over his 39-year coaching career, most recently with the Charlotte Bobcats from 2004-07.

The coaches are replacing former lead assistant John Kuester, who has been reassigned as an advance NBA scout based on the East Coast, and Ettore Messina and Quin Snyder, who left to join CSKA Moscow.

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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