{"id":32347,"date":"2025-07-23T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32347\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:22:08","slug":"nba-assistant-coach-elston-turner-gives-back-at-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32347\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA assistant coach Elston Turner gives back at alma mater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turner starred at Austin-East High School, where he helped lead the Roadrunners to their first-ever state championship in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>KNOXVILLE, Tenn. \u2014 Former NBA player and newly inducted Tennessee Sports Hall of Famer Elston Turner returned to Knoxville to host his basketball camp.<\/p>\n<p>The Elston Turner Basketball Camp is part of the Emerald Youth Foundation. Turner worked with boys and girls aged 6 to 18 from urban neighborhoods such as East Knoxville, Mechanicsville, Lonsdale and Oakwood-Lincoln Park\u2014teaching them both skills on the court and life lessons off it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my hometown. I\u2019m proud of it, and as long as I\u2019m able, I\u2019ll be coming back here, doing what I can to help the kids,\u201d said Turner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turner starred at Austin-East High School, where he helped lead the Roadrunners to their first-ever state championship in 1977. He went on to play college basketball at Ole Miss before being drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in 1981. Over his eight-year NBA career, Turner played for the Mavericks, Denver Nuggets and Chicago Bulls. He now serves as an assistant coach and defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turner starred at Austin-East High School, where he helped lead the Roadrunners to their first-ever state championship in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-32347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}