Luke Walton visited Rams camp to study Jeff Fisher

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A new trend appears to be developing where NBA head coaches visit some of their NFL counterparts to study their methods and management.

Los Angeles Lakers coach Luke Walton is the latest to do it, visiting Los Angeles Rams camp to study how Jeff Fisher operates.

“I came down with an open mind,” Walton told the Rams’ official site, via Kurt Helin of ProBasketballTalk. “I know it’s obviously different sports, but coaching to me is coaching. It’s how you relate to the players and different strategies.”

Fisher has been coaching in some capacity since 1985 and has been a head coach since 1995. If Walton is looking for someone experienced, he’d be hard pressed to do better than Fisher.

Walton seems to be taking a cue from Jason Kidd, who shadowed this highly successful NFL coach earlier in the offseason for similar reasons.

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USA Men’s Basketball Players Accidentally Visited a Rio Brothel

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Several Team USA men’s basketball players “accidentally” walked into to a famed brothel in Rio on Friday.

TMZ reports that the group—which included DeAndre Jordan, DeMarcus Cousins and DeMar Derozan—thought they were going to a spa (that also had a full bar and welcomed only male customers).

They reportedly wandered into the establishment and, upon figuring out where they were, didn’t hang around long.

More from TMZ:

Several Team USA hoops stars made a bonehead move in a foreign land — thinking they were walking into a spa that turned out to be a whorehouse.

 

DeAndre Jordan, DeMarcus “Boogie” Cousins, DeMar Derozan and possibly 3 other players went out on the town Wednesday night in Rio and strolled into Termas Monte Carlo … which Rolling Stone called “one of the high end brothels in Rio.”

 

When you call the place, they’ll tell you it’s a spa that plays music … and it’s just for male customers. Oh, and they have a full bar.

 

A source close to the team tells us the players got the standard line, so they assumed it was kosher. The source said, “They realized it wasn’t the right place for them and immediately left.”

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USA Basketball players accidentally visited brothel in Rio

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USA Basketball’s time in Rio apparently is off to a rather interesting start.

According to a report by TMZ Sports on Friday, some of the members of the team, including DeAndre Jordan, DeMarcus Cousins, and DeMar DeRozan, went for a night out in the city on Wednesday and wound up accidentally visiting a brothel thinking that it was a spa.

Termas Monte Carlo in the Copacabana district of Rio was the venue in question. The report goes on to state that the brothel will tell customers over the phone that it’s a spa that plays music, has a full bar, and only serves male patrons. The players are said to have immediately left after realizing the true nature of the business.

You’d think that at least somebody on the team would’ve had the foresight to Google the place beforehand. Maybe these are the types of hindrances that Kyrie Irving forgot to account for. Oh well.

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H/T SFGate via NBA Reddit

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