Fourteen years after retiring from basketball, Jud Buechler has his first coaching gig in the NBA.
The 48-year-old last played with Orlando in 202 before turning his full attention over to his family, which he raised in his native San Diego.
Buechler — a three-time NBA champion — put all of his effort into raising his daughters, Riely and Brynn, which meant volunteering twice a week when they were in elementary school. And while he wasn’t coaching in the NBA at this time, he was calling the plays for his girls’ soccer, basketball and volleyball teams.
That last sport is especially important to Jud, who was an All-American volleyball player at the University of Arizona, where he met his wife, Lindsey, who played on the women’s team.