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Hello, Meet the Wife of Koby Altman: Rachael Garson


Rachael Garson and Koby Altman have been happily married for over 5 years. Despite being a well-known figure in the NBA, Altman managed to keep his romantic relationship under wraps for many years. However, their engagement was finally revealed in the Cleveland Jewish News in 2017, and after a year of dating, the couple tied the knot. Koby Altman serves as the President of Basketball Operations for the NBA team Cleveland Cavaliers and is an American former coach and basketball administrator.

Altman’s journey with the Cavaliers began in 2012, and he spent nearly four years in the front office before taking on the role of the team’s director of pro personnel. The 2016-2017 season marked his transition to the club’s deputy general manager, and in 2017, he assumed the position of the club’s general manager. Notably, he became one of the few African-American general managers in the league and was also one of the rare GMs from the Jewish community.

Rachael Garson And Koby Altman’s Married Life

In addition to her role as the wife of the basketball executive, Rachel Emily Garson, born in Ohio to Marci and Brent, grew up in Orange, Ohio, and pursued nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. At the time of her engagement to Koby Altman, she was working as a registered nurse at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital.

Koby Altman

The couple’s love story’s details remain a mystery, but it’s known that Koby proposed to Rachel after years of dating following his 35th birthday in September 2017. Their daughter, Sophie Jane Altman, was born in December 2017 and overcame a health scare after being diagnosed with gastroschisis while in the womb. The couple exchanged vows in front of friends and family in Cleveland in August 2018, with the ceremony officiated by David Griffin, an American basketball executive.

Altman’s Family and Early Career

Koby Altman was born on September 16, 1982, in Brooklyn, New York, to his mother, Deborah Altman. Raised as a single child by his mother, he was brought up in a lower middle-class family, where his mother, a social worker at Sheepshead Bay High School, raised him with love and independence.

Altman inherited his mother’s passion for basketball, which she developed during her time at the University of North Carolina, and later became a devoted New York Knicks fan. He played basketball from a young age and went on to become a point guard for the basketball team at Middlebury College after graduating in 1999, although he never pursued professional basketball.

Koby Altman

His coaching career began as an assistant coach at Amherst College in 2007, followed by coaching stints at Southern Illinois (2009-2010) and Columbia (2010-2012) before his tenure with the Cleveland Cavaliers began in 2012.


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