The South Bay Lakers have hired veteran NBA forward Metta World Peace as a development coach, general manager Nick Mazzella announced today. Training camp for the team begins tomorrow, October 24, at the UCLA Health Training Center.
World Peace spent six seasons as a member of the Lakers, winning an NBA championship with the team in 2010. Known as one of the toughest, fiercest competitors in the history of basketball, World Peace is exactly the kind of hard worker the Lakers want to help their young roster.
World Peace will join head coach Coby Karl, along with assistants Brian Walsh, Dane Johnson, Sean Nolen and Isaiah Fox on the Lakers’ coaching staff for the 2017-18 season. For World Peace, coaching has always been a future goal of his after his playing days came to an end.
“I want to be a head coach one day,” World Peace said back in 2015. “It’s fun. I think these coaches are having a great time doing something they love to do, and I want to be in that same position one day.”
World Peace now has the opportunity to climb the coaching ladder with his first stint this season.
