A former NBA head coach is circling again to considerably acquainted territory.
NBA reporter Chris Haynes revealed Friday that Earl Watson is becoming a member of the teaching employees of the lads’s basketball group on the College of San Diego. The transfer will reunite Watson with Steve Lavin, the top coach of this system who additionally was once Watson’s personal coach in school at UCLA.
Watson, 45, is a former level guard who performed for Lavin at UCLA from 1997-2001. He then performed within the NBA for 13 seasons from 2001-14 as a journeyman backup. After retiring as a participant, Watson grew to become a coach within the NBA. He served as an assistant coach of the Phoenix Suns and was later elevated to move coach of the group after the firing of Jeff Hornacek. Watson’s stint as Suns head coach was extremely forgettable although as he went a brutal 33-85 (.280) over his three partial seasons in cost from 2016-17 earlier than getting fired. Watson additionally reportedly had some points with Phoenix’s administration on the time.
After his Suns tenure, Watson returned to assistant teaching, serving as an assistant for the Toronto Raptors from 2021-23. He obtained an interview some years in the past for a giant head-coaching job in school and can now formally return to the NCAA ranks as an assistant for the College of San Diego, a D1 college within the West Coast Convention (WCC).