MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Luke Walton will check out another possible career while locked out of his current one.
The Lakers forward will be working as an assistant to Memphis coach Josh Pastner in a deal that ends along with the NBA lockout so he can return to Los Angeles.
Pastner announced the hiring Monday in a move that must be approved by university and Tennessee State Board of Regents. But the coach said the Tigers can learn a lot from Walton, who has been coached by Phil Jackson and played with Kobe Bryant.
“It’s going to be that opportunity to find out how much I’m into coaching and kind of get a lot of experience from this opportunity, to where I think most players don’t get to do anything like that until they actually retire,” Walton said in a phone interview.
Walton has two years left on his contract with the Lakers, who drafted him in the second round out of Arizona in 2003, and he made clear his priority is still as a pro player.
But he enjoyed his taste of coaching high school players during a camp earlier this summer, so was intrigued when his former teammate sent him a text asking if
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