by admin | May 9, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Becky Hammon’s WNBA head coaching debut couldn’t have gone much better as the Las Vegas Aces earned a 106-88 road win over the Phoenix Mercury on Friday. After the game, Hammon spoke with reporters about the “most special thing” regarding the...
by admin | May 9, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Dearica Hamby scored 24 points and the Las Vegas Aces won in Becky Hammon’s first game as coach, beating the short-handed Phoenix Mercury 106–88 on Friday night to open the WNBA season. Phoenix was without Brittney Griner as she nears the three-month mark of her...
by admin | May 6, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Progress, the saying goes, does not occur on a straight line. When Becky Hammon was hired as the first full-time female assistant in the NBA, the first woman to be a full-time assistant in any of the major North American men’s professional leagues, it was a sea change...
by admin | Feb 24, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Eleven years after she was drafted into the WNBA, center Liz Cambage is finally where she wanted to be all along: with the Los Angeles Sparks. Cambage was introduced by the Sparks in a news conference Wednesday at Crypto.com Arena. She talked about what she hopes to...
by admin | Feb 1, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
New Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon will become the first WNBA coach to exceed $1 million in annual salary. Aces owner Mark Davis, who also owns the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders, confirmed the news to Sam Gordon of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and discussed...
by admin | Jan 31, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
After the 2021 season, Breanna Stewart predicted the WNBA’s free-agency -period would be the most thrilling since the league and the players’ union agreed to a new collective-bargaining agreement in 2020. Stewart didn’t factor in the bombshell coaching hires that...
by admin | Jan 21, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
New Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammon and fellow former WNBA players DeLisha Milton-Jones and Penny Taylor are among 12 finalists for induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, it was announced Thursday. All three are being nominated as players. Read...
by admin | Jan 11, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
While some media members have discussed how disappointing it is that Becky Hammon won’t break the NBA’s thick head coaching glass ceiling, Hammon has been a part of a group that’s breaking down other barriers in the WNBA—a league that has also...
by admin | Jan 4, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Glass-ceiling breaker Becky Hammon has interviewed for multiple NBA head coaching positions. She’s ready for the opportunity to be a head coach, but she hasn’t received an offer there. Hammon — who was hired as the first full-time female assistant...
by admin | Dec 31, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
In August 2014, Becky Hammon played her final game for the San Antonio Stars, and said goodbye to the WNBA to move on to an assistant coaching role with the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. Now, she’s reportedly finalizing a five-year deal and returning to the...
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