While some players are headed overseas during the lockout, Luke Walton plans on being an assistant coach with the University of Memphis. The strangest thing about all of this is that he has and NBA-out in his contract…
It was the sort of outside-the-box hiring announcement that University of Memphis coach Josh Pastner had told Tigers fans to expect.
And within minutes of the news Monday that Los Angeles Lakers forward Luke Walton was joining Pastner’s staff as an assistant until the NBA lockout ends, the national media was weighing in.
“I really like the Walton move after talking to Pastner today,” ESPN’s Andy Katz tweeted. “Why not go for this gamble during lockout?”
“Interesting,” Sporting News college basketball writer Michael DeCourcy tweeted.
“New twist to NBA lockout,” tweeted USA Today’s Tim Gardner.
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