Cal and the Lakers is intriguing. That would be a move that speaks to a change in the way NBA roster construction is done, especially for teams like the Lakers, where the focus is on your ability to attract free agents. Recruiting, essentially. And what is also critical when assembling that kind of team is to be able to manage the big personalities not just of the players themselves, but their agents and their broader management teams, keeping everyone playing hard, playing together, and on the same page.
Ability to appeal to the psychology of elite basketball players as a recruiter and as a coach, ability to manage prima donna personalities, comfort in the media circus that always surrounds the Lakers, familiarity with and popularity among prominent agents, you start to list off things you'd want in a coach for this specific job and it starts to sound an awful lot like John Calipari.
Cal seems very happy at UK, but if there's any NBA job I can see him leaving for, it's this one.