Luke Walton
The Golden State Warriors making big selection who will seats next to the head coach Steve Kerr’s. Steve Kerr is the first coach made the Golden State Warriors to win the first NBA Championships in 40 years. It’s their first season together since 2014-15, produced a franchise-record 67 regular-season.
Luke Walton, 35, will slide into the seat previously occupied by Alvin Gentry, who was named head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans earlier this offseason. Walton born in 1980 in San Diego California. The son of former mother Susie of the UCLA volleyball and his father Hall of famer in the NBA standout Bill Walton. Walton attended University of San Diego High School in San Diego, California, graduating in 1998.
Walton is a former NBA player, the best year or his career was 2006-07, when he scored a career-high 25 points against the Atlanta Hawks on December 8, 2006. He signed for Lakers during 2007 for 6 years-championships with Lakers. During March 2012 Lakers was traded in the first-round draft choice to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Ramon Sessions and Christian Eyenga.
The time came to step out of the NBA as a player and to join into coaching, his first assistant coaching was in the University of Memphis, after August 2012, following his retirement Walton was hired as a player development coach by the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the 14. During the same year he started to joining the Golden State Warriors team. Walton also was prepared to join Derek Fisher coaching staff for Knicks. Fisher was trying to recruit top assistants like Kurt Rambis and Jim Cleamons and he would like to have his former Lakers teammate Walton.
Walton toke best mentoring and teaching by legend Phil Jackson, he had a few conversations with him thinking to come in New York, to joining Derek’s staff. But “Phil Jackson gave Steve a recommendation and I could’ve had a lower position than I have now. Phil told me, Steve Kerr is going to be a phenomenal coach and it was a great opportunity to take it.” Walton wanted so bad to be in the triangle, and he fit it in the triangle.
Walton helped the Warriors won the 2015 NBA Finals by defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in six-games and giving Walton his third NBA championship and First as a assistant coach.
