BATON ROUGE – Former LSU star and veteran NBA player Garrett Temple of Baton Rouge has recently been elected to a three-year term as Vice President of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).
Temple, who helped LSU to the NCAA Final Four as a freshman, and a member of Southeastern Conference championship teams in 2006 and 2009, is in his second year of a three-year contract with the Sacramento Kings and will play his eighth-season in the year during the 2017-18 campaign.
Nine-time All-Star Chris Paul was re-elected to a new term as President and Paul and Temple are joined on the Executive Committee of the association by LeBron James, James Jones, Carmelo Anthony, Stephen Curry, Pau Gasol, Andre Iguodala and Anthony Tolliver.