Stockton Kings Announce New Additions to Basketball Operations Staff for 2022-23 Season
October 27, 2022 – NBA G League (G League) – Stockton Kings News Release
Today, the Stockton Kings, the NBA G League affiliate of the Sacramento Kings, announced new additions to their basketball operations staff ahead of the 2022-23 season.
Anjali Ranadivé is the Assistant General Manager of the Stockton Kings. Previously, she worked for the Sacramento Kings as a coordinator in the Social Responsibility department. A U.C. Berkeley graduate, Anjali was an intern for the Golden State Warriors during her time at Cal from 2011-2013. Before moving to Sacramento and pursuing a career in sports, Ranadivé reached the Billboard charts as a singer and songwriter in Los Angeles. She also ran a nonprofit for animal rescue and wildlife conservation known as Jaws and Paws.
James Clark enters his first season with the Stockton Kings as an Assistant Coach. Before joining the Kings bench, Clark worked with the Chinese Men’s National Basketball Team as a player development coach and served in the same capacity for One Legacy Sports Management in 2019. In these roles, he directed all training camps for NBA prospects attended by more than 100 NBA coaches and scouts. A graduate of La Salle University, Clark also worked for BDA Sports Management (2018) and Klutch Sports Management (2016) as a player development coach where he oversaw skill development and conditioning for first-round draft picks Robert Williams, Ben Simmons and Dejuonte Murray. Clark is also Founder and CEO of Full Court Solutions, a development program dedicated to helping athletes at all levels. Clark played professional basketball in Australia.
Hunter Eisenhower will serve as the Sports Performance and Sports Scientist Coach for the Stockton Kings. Eisenhower arrives in Stockton after spending the 2021 season serving as the associate director of sports performance for the University of California, Davis. While there, he oversaw and implemented all aspects of athletic performance including speed, conditioning, weight room training, and nutritional education. Before joining UC Davis, Eisenhower worked as the assistant strength and conditioning coach for Southeastern Louisiana University (2020) and for Minnesota State (2018- 20). Eisenhower began his career as an intern with the University of Washington and Seattle Univeristy. Eisenhower played four years of college basketball at Seattle Pacific University (2014-18).
Codi Simmons joins the Stockton Kings as Head Athletic Trainer. Prior to working in Stockton, Simmons worked as an assistant athletic trainer with the Southeastern Louisiana University (SLU) Athletics Sports Medicine staff. In her role, Simmons primarily worked with the SLU men’s basketball program. Prior to SLU, Simmons served as an assistant athletic trainer intern at Alabama State University where she worked with the school’s volleyball and softball teams. Simmons began her athletic training career after completing four years of NCAA basketball at Schreiner University (2013-17). During her senior year, she provided athletic training support for Schreiner’s baseball and softball teams. After earning her bachelor’s degree in exercise science from Schreiner in 2017, Simmons continued her graduate studies at Stephen F.
Austin, earned her master’s degree in athletic training in 2019. Simmons is a licensed and board certified athletic trainer and member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and National Academy of Sports Medicine. She dedicates her career to her grandmother, Ethel Mae Meads and her late friend, Chris McCullough, whose dream was to become a sports medicine professional.
Tyler Lemings will serve as the Equipment Manager and Assistant Athletic Trainer for the Stockton Kings. Prior to joining the Stockton Kings, Lemings worked as a high school athletic trainer in Louisiana (2019-21). Lemings is a University of Louisiana at Lafayette graduate where he worked with the men’s basketball team as a student athletic trainer.
Mikayla Florez joins the Stockton Kings as the Basketball Operations Coordinator. She previously worked as an assistant in sales operations during the 2021-2022 Sacramento Kings season. Prior to that, Florez served as an operations assistant for Long Beach State University Athletics. Florez is a former NCAA Division I cross country and track and field student-athlete at Long Beach State.
Philip Kim is a Basketball Operations Intern for the Stockton Kings and NBA Future Basketball Operations Stars program participant. He joins Stockton from New York City, where he served as director of basketball operations for Pro Hoops, a prominent player development and skills training group. Prior to that, he coached high school basketball in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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