The Sacramento Kings and the NBA announced they've launched a joint investigation of the team's newly hired head coach, Luke Walton, who's being sued over an alleged sexual assault.
He had been head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers for the past three seasons, before he was let go.
Former sports reporter Kelli Tennant speaks at a news conference in Los Angeles on April 23, 2019. Tennant filed a lawsuit alleging that basketball coach Luke Walton assaulted her while he was an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors.a former on-air personality for Spectrum SportsNet LA in Southern California, claims Walton pinned her on the bed of his Santa Monica hotel room in 2014 after she dropped off a book she'd written for student-athletes.
At the time of the alleged attack, Walton was in the first of two seasons as an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors, according to the lawsuit. “Out of nowhere he got on top of me and pinned me down to the bed and held my arms down with all of his weight while he kissed my neck and my face and my chest,”Tennant said she was able to get away from Walton and has hesitated for years on whether or not to share her story publicly.
"Coming forward is a scary thing and I have spent years now dealing with this, trying to forget about it, hoping I could push it to the side and bury it," she said.
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