Chelsea Lane

Chelsea Lane

Chelsea Lane spent over a decade working across high-performance sport in New Zealand before an email from the Golden State Warriors took her to the NBA.

Within a year she was the first female on an NBA team bench working with some of the biggest sports stars in the world as a performance therapist, within two years she was running the whole operation, and after three years she had back-to-back NBA Championship rings and was one of the NBA’s most coveted backroom staffers.

She was then headhunted by the Atlanta Hawks, offered an executive role, and within five years of leaving New Zealand was a Vice President of the NBA franchise bossing the boardroom as much as the treatment room.

Chelsea can take you behind the scenes of the NBA; from team talks with Steve Kerr to the magic of Kevin Durant and Steph Curry, working 100-hour work weeks, the secrets of elite sport and all the knowledge she’s brough back to NZ.  

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The Unicorn: Why NBA's Biggest Superstars Love Chelsea Lane

Episode 65

Chelsea Lane's story is extraordinary. After working in NZ for over a decade as a physio and with high performance sport NZ, she got an email from the NBA champion Golden State Warriors in 2015, asking for her help.

Within a year, she was working with some of the biggest sport stars in the world as a performance therapist.

Within two years she was running the whole operation, leading a team of 25 as the head of physical performance and sports medicine at the Warriors.

Within three years she had two NBA Championship rings and was one of the NBA’s most coveted backroom staffers.

She was then headhunted by the Atlanta Hawks, offered an executive role and within five years of leaving New Zealand was the Vice President of an NBA franchise.

Now she's moved back home to NZ, and told us all about her incredible journey (and what its like being bffs with the world's biggest stars).