Frank Vogel led the Los Angeles Lakers to a victory in his final game with the team on Sunday night, and Charles Barkley is among those who feel the head coach was not given a fair shot this season.
Shortly after the Lakers came from behind to defeat the Denver Nuggets in overtime, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Vogel will be fired as soon as Monday. That led to an awkward press conference in which Vogel told reporters that Lakers management had yet to speak with him about his future.
The Lakers have faced some criticism over the way they have handled Vogel’s dismissal. Some of the most animated came from Barkley, who said during TNT’s postgame show that Vogel has become a scapegoat for “whoever put these old a– geezers together.”