Former West Coast Conference COY and seven year NBA veteran, and ABA Champion Rex Walters discussing life as a player, and his transition to becoming a coach. We talk about about everything from Blue Chips, playing for Hall of Fame coaches, getting into coaching and in hindsight what he'd do differently at Florida Atlantic and San Francisco. Coach Walters explains how important it is to have a "rock star" wife and the pressure his kids have faced growing up as kids of a former NBA player.

 

0:30 Transfer Talk

6:50 Blue Chips

13:51 Discussing playing for legendary head coaches

21:50 Assistant Coaches who coached him who went on to be head coaches and the importance of having a good staff

24:30 Life as a NBA rookie

27:15 The 76ers Years

31:00 When did he know that you wanted to be a coach? The importance of Coach Turgeon giving belief

32:33 Relationship w/ Larry Brown + Miami Heat Years + The Heat/Knicks Fight

42:22 Millions of your Miami Heat jerseys still being worn

43:10 Playing in Spain and the ABA

48:55 Life after playing, looking for a job, coaching high school, driving an hour and half each way to volunteer at a D2 for three months, landing a job at Valparaiso working for Homer Drew.

54:45 Taking a job at Florida Atlantic and eventually taking over after Matt Doherty moved on to SMU

59:40 The difficultly of leaving the players at Florida Atlantic and having regrets

103:00 Going back to Cali

109:30 Trying to get in touch with Bill Russell (USF Alum)

110:55 Coaching with the Grand Rapids Drive

116:00 Coaching in the NBA

120:00 Keeping up with the Kardashian + Wild’n Out

120:55 Going back to coach college hoops

126:35 Coaching the son of a former NBA teammate

127:50 The importance of having supportive wife and family

130:25 How Coach met Mrs. Coach & Talking about their children

134:10 Who’s the best shooter and who wins in H-O-R-S-E?

134:50 Having kids who feel the pressure of having a dad who played in the NBA

136:50 Start, Bench, Cut (Apologizes for the choppy audio)

140:11 What’s next for Coach Walters

143:43 What’s Rex’s best SVG impression?

144:44 Three guests to book on the podcast

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