Luke Walton

As recently as January we heard whispers that people close to LeBron James had their doubts about former Los Angeles Lakers head coach Luke Walton. Well today a report surfaced today stating that LeBron James’ camp wanted the organization to fire now-former head coach Luke Walton and even went to commissioner Silver to raise the [...]

According to court documents, Luke Walton is being sued by a woman who says he sexually assaulted her. In a lawsuit that was filed on Monday, Kelli Tennant, a former LA Dodgers reporter and Walton’s co-publisher of a book titled “The Transition: Every Athlete’s Guide to Life After Sports”, alleged that Walton forced himself on [...]

Just days after the Los Angeles Lakers parted ways with Luke Walton, he was hired by the Sacramento Kings as their head coach. Neither the Kings nor Walton waited long. Sacramento fired coach Dave Joerger on Thursday and Walton was dismissed by the Lakers just a day later. The Kings GM, Vlade Divac, met with [...]

On Sunday, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Jason Kidd will be a “serious coaching candidate” for the Los Angeles Lakers should Luke Walton be fired after the season. The news comes amid a report that he is also expected to be in the running for a job at his alma mater, the University of California, [...]

LeBron James wants Luke Walton replaced, so the Lakers should fire him and get on with it. After poaching Walton from the defending champion Golden State Warriors, the Lakers are free to do whatever they want, including what Lakers President Magic Johnson and star player LeBron James want, which seems to be moving from Luke [...]

Luke Walton’s job is safe. For now. Despite reports of a tenuous meeting between the Los Angeles Lakers head coach and management, team president Magic Johnson came out and said on Sunday he has no plans to fire Walton, per ESPN.com’s Ohm Youngmisuk: “Yeah, we’re not going to fire him,” Johnson told ESPN after the [...]

Despite a sluggish 2-5 start to the season, the Los Angeles Lakers aspire to be one of the NBA’s 10 best defensive teams. Or so says Luke Walton. Here’s what the Lakers’ head coach had to say (h/t Silver Screen & Roll’s Harrison Faigen): “We have a goal to be a top-10 defensive team, which [...]

Los Angeles Lakers head coach Luke Walton apparently needn’t worry about his job security if his squad gets off to a poor start to the 2018-19 regular season. That’s the message team president Magic Johnson and general manager Rob Pelinka have delivered to him anyway. From ESPN.com’s Ohm Youngmisuk: “As I was talking to Luke [...]

Luke Walton has a very high opinion of his Los Angeles Lakers. At six games under .500, the boys in purple and gold are displaced from the NBA’s playoff picture. They have not been mathematically eliminated just yet, but FiveThirtyEight gives them less than a one percent chance of joining the springtime fray. In an [...]

Magic Johnson did not let LaVar Ball’s January criticism of Los Angeles Lakers head coach Luke Walton pass without consequence. He addressed the issues. Sort of. Indirectly. Or something. From ESPN.com’s Ramona Shelburne: According to sources close to the situation, Johnson called an associate of LaVar’s and strongly admonished him. Publicly, though, the Lakers said [...]