{"id":30764,"date":"2022-05-31T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/luke-walton-joins-cleveland-cavaliers-as-assistant\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:23:07","slug":"luke-walton-joins-cleveland-cavaliers-as-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/luke-walton-joins-cleveland-cavaliers-as-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Walton joins Cleveland Cavaliers as assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers are hiring Luke Walton as an assistant coach, sources told ESPN on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Walton joins coach JB Bickerstaff&#8217;s staff after spending the past five-plus seasons as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p>Walton &#8211; who played parts of his final two seasons as a player with the Cavaliers a decade ago &#8211; brings significant championship coaching and playing experience to a Cavaliers franchise on the rise in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Under Bickerstaff, the Cavaliers made a dramatic rise in the conference into the play-in tournament.  The Cavaliers&#8217; young core &#8211; including All-Star guard Darius Garland, All-Rookie forward \/ center Evan Mobley and the burgeoning 7-footer Jarrett Allen &#8211; are expected to make Cleveland a contender to move into the conference&#8217;s elite next season.<\/p>\n<p>Walton, who was dismissed in November after a 6-11 start with the Kings, was part of an NBA championship coaching staff with Golden State under Steve Kerr in 2015. He won two titles &#8211; 2009 and 2010 &#8211; as a member of the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Bickerstaff signed a long-term extension as the Cavaliers&#8217; coach in December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers are hiring Luke Walton as an assistant coach, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. Walton joins coach JB Bickerstaff&#8217;s staff after spending the past five-plus seasons as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings. Walton &#8211; who played parts of his final two seasons as a player with the Cavaliers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/luke-walton-joins-cleveland-cavaliers-as-assistant\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Luke Walton joins Cleveland Cavaliers as assistant<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[5711,389,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2019\/0413\/r526730_2_1296x729_16-9.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2019\/0413\/r526730_2_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}