New Duke head coach Kara Lawson spent a year as one of four female assistant coaches in the NBA. While the Boston Celtics players are happy for her, it was hard for her to leave the team.
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00:00You're gonna try to get me to start crying here on the zoom Gary. It's been it's been an emotional three days
00:05Man, it's been tough. No
00:30You know you uh, I
00:38Think it's the relationships that makes that makes basketball special and
00:45I've built a lot of deep relationships with these guys and
00:51I think in any coach that's leaving a place and going to another place
00:55Knows knows that feeling and it's it's hard to leave and certainly
01:03The relationships that I've built all over the roster all over the coaching staff
01:10Yeah, it's it's it's difficult
01:13You you're with these guys every day
01:15Obviously, you're what you guys are with us every day to following us around the country
01:20But you're with your players every day
01:23In this bubble scenario, we're with we eat every meal together around each other all the time and
01:30You know, they're
01:32they're special and
01:34Our team is special and I you know, I had a chance to talk to them
01:40before practice yesterday
01:43Jason Tatum is obviously very excited and JT
01:48We started off our practice around the circle and and JT gave a great introduction and how excited he was
01:57for me to be at Duke now and
02:01Jalen Brown came up to me and said
02:04he never thought he would share for Duke and now he's gonna share for Duke and
02:07Just the support of those guys the texts
02:11Every day they come up to me even if they've already told me congratulations
02:15They come up to me again every day since it's happened
02:18and
02:20They're they're just so excited. They you know, Ennis Cantor wants a court side seat Kevin White. We're gonna have to work on that