LUKE WALTON
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Is there any doubt Luke Walton has, not only, a zest for the game of basketball, but life as well? This season, we'll get a chance to see if he can earn the 30m the Lakers just dumped in his lap. In the meantime, here's The Son of a Bill sounding off on various topics.
His Dad
He's a freak about plants. My dad can walk through a garden and name out every single plant. The first thing he does every morning is a walk off his yard. He checks out all the plants and yells at the gardeners.
His Brothers
Our basketball games ended up in a fight every day. I was about to square off with Nate once, and my best friend David caught my arms, trying to break it up, and Nate karate-kicked me in the wrist.
My whole wrist was, like, hanging there, broken, and I’m crying and stuff...And they’re doing work around the house, so there’s a wood saw on the corner of the basketball court. Nate starts trying to grind my head against it. Luckily it wasn’t plugged in.
His Surfing
I surf, but not during the season. I can get up and go straight. I got a huge board. So I kind of just start yelling, if there’s other people on the wave: ‘Either get out of the way, or we’re going to crash’.
A lot of my friends surf, so I’ll go out with them and they’ll clear a wave for me. They’re my boys. They get on both sides of me and they’ll take off. And I’ll be fine, I’ll just go straight. Otherwise, I’m gonna crash into someone and it’s not going to be pretty.
His Mob Connections
When I was a rookie, we had an actual ‘Movie Mob’. D. Fish was the head of it, and Devean George was the CEO. Me and Cookie were the interns. We had to always go check the movie times and we’d get to the theater first and buy the tickets.
Now, Cookie and I are the owners and Jordan Farmar’s our intern. We got a little group of us that goes: B-Cook, Ronny Turiaf and Farmar. It’s a good way to go out. If you sit in your hotel room all day, you’re just gonna go insane.
The Club Scene
Dude, there’s only so many movies you can go to before you need a little bit of clubbing. But if we do go out before a game night, we’re not out there getting drunk. Guys are pretty responsible about that.
His Summer
Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye come stay with me in San Diego. They’re both from Phoenix. And we can’t really go to Phoenix in the off-season, because it’s so dang hot. So they come out here. So does Brian Cook and Kareem Rush. We workout in the morning and afternoon and, at night, we just kind of hang out and have fun...
The Fun
We bought a bunch of paintball guns and we went terrorizing the neighborhood. We weren’t going after houses, but we went to the little park down the street and we’d get teams of four-on-four, until we got chased off by the neighbors. They called the cops, so we had to do a getaway. You might not even want to put that in print. In case we’re fugitives.
Editor Rick Cipes' work has appeared in over 30 publications including ESPN Magazine, Los Angeles Times and Playboy.
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