The San Antonio Spurs are hiring the NBA’s first female assistant coach, soon-to-be retired WNBA player Becky Hammon.
“I
very much look forward to the addition of Becky Hammon to our staff,”
Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich said in a press release. “I’m confident
her basketball IQ, work ethic and interpersonal skills will be a great
benefit to the Spurs.”
Hammon spent some time around the Spurs during the team’s run to the NBA championship last season.
Hammon announced on July 23 that she would retire as a player after this season, her 16th as a pro. She is a six-time WNBA all-star, and has spent the past eight seasons with the San Antonio Stars.
This is only the Spurs’ most recent high-profile hire. In July, Italian coach Ettore Messina was hired as an assistant.
Until now, the closest an NBA team has come to hiring a female to join the regular season as a full-time assistant coach was Natalie Nakase, an assistant video coordinator for the Los Angeles Clippers, who was hired to help with the NBA’s summer league this season, NPR reports.
Hammon, who played for Colorado State in college, went unpicked in the 1999 WNBA draft, but signed to the New York Liberty later that year. She spent eight seasons there before moving to the Stars.
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Hammon spent some time around the Spurs during the team’s run to the NBA championship last season.
Hammon announced on July 23 that she would retire as a player after this season, her 16th as a pro. She is a six-time WNBA all-star, and has spent the past eight seasons with the San Antonio Stars.
This is only the Spurs’ most recent high-profile hire. In July, Italian coach Ettore Messina was hired as an assistant.
Until now, the closest an NBA team has come to hiring a female to join the regular season as a full-time assistant coach was Natalie Nakase, an assistant video coordinator for the Los Angeles Clippers, who was hired to help with the NBA’s summer league this season, NPR reports.
Hammon, who played for Colorado State in college, went unpicked in the 1999 WNBA draft, but signed to the New York Liberty later that year. She spent eight seasons there before moving to the Stars.
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