After losing two alumni in assistant coaches Will Conroy and Quincy Pondexter, who weren’t retained by Washington and instead headed to USC following Mike Hopkins’ firing, coach Danny Sprinkle found another former Husky star to add to the bench.
On Thursday, during an interview with KJR’s Dave Mahler, Sprinkle announced that the Huskies have added former Washington guard Abdul Gaddy to the team’s coaching staff, joining assistants Tony Bland, Demarlo Slocum, Andy Hill, and Jerry Hobbie.
Gaddy started his career at Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma and was ranked as the top recruit in the state and the No. 11 prospect in the country when he signed with coach Lorenzo Romar in 2009. He went on to play four years with the Huskies, averaging 7.7 points and 4 rebounds per game during his career.
The local product finished his career with 469 assists, good for the second-most in school history and played internationally for several years before signing with the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2018. However, he never appeared in a game and was waived shortly before the start of the season.
The 32-year-old could end up as a valuable recruiter and as a promising coach while working with the impressive staff that Sprinkle has assembled ahead of the school’s first year in the Big Ten.
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