Rick Turner was born in San Francisco, CA and grew up in Kirkland, WA. After graduating from Western Washington University, he spent nearly 10 years with the Seattle SuperSonics in various front office capacities before striking out on his own to pursue a career in coaching. His foray into coaching has taken him all across the country and around the world where he has garnered great team success as well as a variety of individual honors.
Coach Turner is also the Basketball Director for the Jumpball Basketball Programme in Kingston, Jamaica and he will be donating a portion of the sales from his first book "If My Name Was Phil Jackson..." back to the Jumpball program.