After one of the worst seasons in franchise history, the Los Angeles Lakers will bring back head coach Mike D'Antoni for a third season, according to multiple sources.

This comes at big surprise for a lot of basketball fans who witnessed a train wreck of season from the purple and gold this season. The Lakers finished the season 27-55, good enough for 14th in the Western Conference. Kobe Bryant getting injured at the beginning of the season obviously didn't help things, and Dwight Howard's departure still casted a shadow of a distraction for much of the year.

Owner Jim Buss has also made some questionable decisions recently that has some Lakers fans wondering if he is the right guy to lead this Lakers squad. The Lakers rewarded an aging Steve Nash with a huge contract that paid him more than $9 million this season, and Nash is still due $9.7 million next season. Let's also not forget the Lakers are still paying ex-coach Mike Brown. That's a lot of dead money.

Collectively, D'Antoni is 67-87 in his two years as the Lakers head coach.

D'Antoni became famous in Phoenix, as the Suns head coach, where he would orchestrate a high powered offense and win the 2004-05 coach of the year award. While coaching the Suns, D'Antoni coached some of the best offenses, however the Suns ranked near the bottom in defense every year. Even in Steve Nash's prime, he wasn't even an average defender. D'Antoni's high powered offense was built on the "7 seconds or less" method, which focuses on taking as many shots as possible, jump shots, and a high powered offense.

Unfortunately, it results in a terrible defense.

With Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James both able to opt this offseason, they may not even express interest in joining the Lakers with D'Antoni returning. For whatever the reason, this doesn't appear to be a very good relationship. The Lakers do still own a very high draft pick in the upcoming NBA draft, a lottery pick, which should be a franchise player.

D'Antoni is still signed under contract for next season, in which he is due $4 million. Next season, the Lakers can option him for another $4 million if they choose to. Regardless, the Lakers must pay him $4 million next year, so there is a possibility that, as Buss said, "Let's keep him because we have to pay him anyway," they'll keep him just because. There's nothing worse than dead money for an NBA owner.

With an aging and injured Kobe Bryant and a questionable coach in Mike D'Antoni, the Lakers don't look like a very desirable destination right now.