Luke Loucks is returning to Florida State because the Seminoles’ new males’s basketball head coach, 15 years after his taking part in profession led to Tallahassee.
Loucks, 34, has been an assistant within the NBA for the previous 11 seasons, the final 5 with the Sacramento Kings. He was on the employees for the Golden State Warriors‘ back-to-back NBA championship groups in 2017 and 2018.
He’ll succeed Leonard Hamilton, who introduced in February that he would step down following the 2024-25 season. The Seminoles completed 17-14 total and 8-12 within the ACC, the fourth consecutive season throughout which the crew completed .500 or beneath in convention play.
The hiring was formally introduced by Florida State on Sunday afternoon. Loucks might be launched in Tallahassee on Monday.
“Luke’s distinctive teaching capacity, profound management abilities, and intensive basketball information make him the proper match to steer our program,” college president Richard McCullough mentioned in a press release.
“As a former Seminole, he understands the values and traditions that outline FSU basketball,” he added. “I’m assured that beneath his steering, Florida State will proceed to attain nice success and uphold the proud legacy of Seminole basketball.”
Loucks performed 4 seasons at Florida State for Hamilton from 2008-12. The Seminoles certified for the NCAA match in every of these seasons, the primary time in class historical past that the boys’s basketball crew had earned 4 consecutive NCAA berths. When Loucks completed his profession in Tallahassee, he was the college’s all-time chief in video games performed at 136. (He is now tied for fourth.)
After three seasons as an expert in Latvia, Cyprus and Belgium, Loucks performed two years within the NBA G League earlier than going into teaching. With the Warriors, he labored in video coordination and participant growth. He joined the Kings as an assistant in 2022 and have become the crew’s defensive coordinator in 2024.
As soon as his taking part in profession ended, Hamilton requested Loucks if he had ever thought-about teaching, in line with ESPN’s Andrea Adelson. After Mike Brown employed him for his employees in Sacramento, he informed Loucks that it was solely a matter of time earlier than he turned a head coach.
“With my lack of expertise, there are going to be query marks,” Loucks informed Adelson. “However the actuality is, I perceive Florida State, I perceive the dynamics. I perceive what goes into successful at Florida State. I’ve not solely seen it, however I’ve skilled it, and I’ve lived it.”
In 23 seasons at Florida State, Hamilton completed with a 460-295 document, eight NCAA match bids, one ACC match title and one common season convention championship.
Florida State is certainly one of 4 ACC males’s basketball packages to make a training change throughout the 2024-25 season, becoming a member of Virginia, Miami and NC State.
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