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Former Detroit Piston and Saginaw High Trojan forward Darvin Ham will become the new head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, according to an ESPN report. Ham, who played at Saginaw High and Texas Tech, owns NBA championships as a player and assistant coach. He also was a member of the Milwaukee Bucks staff during the 2020-21 NBA Championship season. Ham won the NCAA slam dunk contest in 1996 and competed in the NBA slam dunk contest in 1997, losing to Kobe Bryant. MOREFormer Detroit Piston Darvin Ham adds second NBA championship ring

A person with knowledge of the decision says Darvin Ham has accepted an offer to be the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Former Detroit Piston and Saginaw High Trojan Darvin Ham is a finalist for the Los Angeles Lakers head coaching job, ESPN reported Friday. Ham, an assistant coach for the Milwaukee Bucks, is also scheduled for a second interview for the vacant Charlotte Hornets job. Ham was an assistant coach for the Lakers from 2011 through 2013. At Charlotte, Mike D’Antoni is the favorite to replace James Borrego as the Hornets’ head coach. MOREDarvin Ham follows basketball fortunes into Saginaw County Sports Hall of FameFormer Detroit Piston Darvin Ham adds second championship ringFormer Detroit Piston Darvin Ham serves as peacemaker as NBA rumors swirl

Former Detroit Piston forward Darvin Ham is once again considered a front-runner for a vacant NBA head coaching job, adding the Los Angeles Lakers to the teams that have put him on the list of head coaching candidates. The Lakers, who fired head coach Frank Vogel after the 2021-22 season, received permission from the Milwaukee Bucks to interview the Saginaw High graduate for their head coaching position, according to the Los Angeles Times. Ham, who was an assistant for the Lakers under Phil Jackson and Mike Brown, is one of several rumored candidates expected to interview with Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka. Ham, who owns championships as a player and coach, was among the coaches considered for head coaching jobs in 2021 for Washington, Indiana and the Los Angeles Clippers. Ham is 1-2 as a head coach after filling in this season when Budenholzer was put into the NBA’s Covid-19 protocol.

You could always open a can of soup and heat it up on the stove, but these days, with multi-cookers like an Instant Pot, you can cook up something homemade and delicious in no time.

Alexander & Hornung is recalling around 234,391 pounds of fully cooked ham and pepperoni products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to officials.

Alexander & Hornung is recalling around 234,391 pounds of fully cooked ham and pepperoni products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to officials.

A Southern California teen was recorded on video earlier this week sucker-punching her 15-year-old opponent during a youth basketball game in Garden Grove, leaving the victim’s mother “absolutely horrified.”

Alice Ham told CBSLA Reporter Laurie Perez that parents who were at the game heard the mother of the girl who threw the punch yell, "go and hit her."

The science fiction writer and warfare expert Cordwainer Smith wrote about the psychological pain of being in space. Read more: How animal astronauts paved the way for human space flightWhile the USSR focused on dogs, the US turned to chimpanzees as they were the most like humans. The chosen chimp would test life support systems and demonstrate that equipment could be operated during spaceflight. On January 31, 1961, Ham was launched into space, strapped into a capsule inside the nosecone of a Mercury-Redstone rocket. The calls of a wild chimp were recorded on the Voyager Golden Records, now heading out beyond the Solar system.

Fifty-five years ago today a chimpanzee traveled where no man had gone before, when NASA loaded Ham the chimp into a Mercury capsule for a trial run ahead of America's first manned space mission. Charles Osgood reports.