Video: Lakers Pour Water on JJ Redick in Locker Room to Celebrate HC's 1st NBA Win

Los Angeles Lakers players were excited to be part of J.J. Redick's first win as an NBA head coach.

The Lakers dumped water over Redick's head in the locker room on Tuesday night after he coached the team to a season-opening victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The Lakers announced Redick's hiring in June. The former NBA player and ESPN analyst took the job with no prior coaching experience.

Anthony Davis scored a game-high 36 points on Tuesday as the Lakers opened the 2024-25 season with a 110-103 win.

Redick showed up to his post-game press conference with wet hair, which he confirmed to reporters was "unfortunately" due to a water bottle shower.

"It was awesome," Redick said about his coaching debut, during which he said he felt "great, clear-minded, no jitters."

Lakers forward Rui Hachimura provided some insight into Redick's coaching debut when explaining the Lakers' strategy against Julius Randle's rim defense.

"We talked about Julius Randle. He sometimes is just standing and stuff," Hachimura said after the win, per Silver Screen and Roll's Jacob Rude. "So we talked about, we got to kind of use that. I know I can be the screener. I can be in the corner to kind of attack the rim."

That strategy led Hachimura to score 18 points, including a poster on defending DPOY Rudy Gobert.

Lakers star Anthony Davis, who led both teams with 36 points in the win, also praised Redick's strategy after the win.

"The game plan, the schemes that he had on both ends of the floor, he trusts us," Davis said after the win, per The Athletic's Jovan Buha. "We trust him, as far as what he teaches us, what he wants us to do on the floor on both ends and it's our job to go execute it. I think we were very prepared tonight."

Not everything about the Lakers' game was positive, as the winning team made 44.2 percent of their shots from the field but went just 5-for-30 from behind the arc. That's something Redick said he would be addressing by asking the NBA to allow his team to play with worn-in basketballs rather than the brand new ones distributed for the season opener.

Heading into Tuesday, the Lakers had not won a season opener since defeating the Houston Rockets in 2016. Now Redick and his team will look to ride the momentum of snapping that seven-season streak into Friday's matchup with the visiting Phoenix Suns.