A former sports reporter has filed a lawsuit in which she accuses new Sacramento Kings coach Luke Walton of sexually assaulting her when he was an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors.
Kelli Tennant, who worked as a reporter for Spectrum SportsNet in Los Angeles, filed the lawsuit Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that the incident occurred at the Casa Del Mar Hotel in Santa Monica on an unspecified date. Walton was a Warriors assistant from 2014 to 2016. The lawsuit was first reported by TMZ.
According to TMZ, the Los Angeles Times and The Associated Press, Tennant says in the lawsuit that Walton had been a mentor to her and that she knew his wife because both were college volleyball players.