The Kings are including longtime NBA assistant coach Quinton Crawford to information their G League affiliate in Stockton, experiences Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter hyperlink).
After reaching the Candy Sixteen with the Arizona Wildcats as a guard, Crawford transitioned to the teaching facet with Pepperdine in 2013/14. Whereas there, he served because the membership’s graduate supervisor and video coordinator. He then labored as an assistant video coordinator with the Kings, earlier than serving as an assistant coach with the Hornets, Magic, Lakers, Mavericks and most just lately the Suns in 2023/24.
A frequent flyer underneath head coach Frank Vogel, Crawford gained a championship on Vogel’s workers with the 2019/20 Lakers. All instructed, Crawford served underneath Vogel in Orlando, Los Angeles and Phoenix.
Final yr’s Vogel-led Suns run was pretty short-lived. Regardless of fielding three multi-time All-Stars in Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal, Phoenix completed with simply the Western Convention’s No. 6 seed and a 49-33 file. The Suns have been rapidly swept out of the primary spherical of the playoffs by the Timberwolves. Phoenix proprietor Mat Ishbia rapidly jettisoned Vogel and his workers, bringing within the man who beat the Suns within the 2021 Finals, ex-Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer.
Underneath former head coach Lindsey Harding, the Stockton Kings went 24-10 in G League common season play, incomes the West’s No. 1 seed. Stockton bested the Santa Cruz Warriors earlier than falling to the Oklahoma Metropolis Blue. For her efforts, Harding gained Coach of the 12 months honors, and now’s an assistant coach on JJ Redick‘s Lakers workers.
