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...
by admin | Dec 21, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
It is inevitable that Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon is bound to become a head basketball coach. But if you are penciling her name to patrol the sidelines on an NBA team, think again. In an interview with ESPN’s LaChina Robinson, Hammon was asked about...
by admin | Dec 7, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
Jody Allen defies the most common stereotypes about heirs, best embodied these days by the greedy, cocky, immature and impulsive Roy children on HBO’s “Succession.” By contrast, the 62-year-old business executive held key roles for decades alongside her brother, Paul,...
by admin | Dec 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
I don’t like to wake up and immediately start. I need a second. So I set my alarm for earlier so that I can lie in bed and just breathe. I’ll have my coffee in the morning, and then I’ll usually work out, then eat breakfast. I’m very big on the reward of things. I...
by admin | Nov 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
NBA great Shaquille O’Neal is joining a new team—the one behind the award-winning documentary The Queen of Basketball. The Hall of Fame center and four-time NBA champ has signed on as an executive producer of the New York Times Op-doc short, which tells the story of...
by admin | Nov 5, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
ON THE EVENING of Oct. 30, 2016, at Talking Stick Resort Arena in downtown Phoenix, Earl Watson, in just his third game as the Suns’ head coach, faced a tall task: beat the powerhouse Golden State Warriors. The young Phoenix Suns team had been toiling at the...
by admin | Oct 1, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
There were no histrionics. No spread of misinformation dressed up as high-minded debates about science. No shirking of an opportunity to do a public good. When it came to getting vaccinated against COVID-19, the WNBA did what it’s always done: Led. Back in June, the...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Get ready for Michelle Beadle — The Comeback. The former host of ESPN’s “NBA Countdown” is in talks with several suitors about possibly returning to sports media in time for the NBA’s 2021-22 season, sources tell Front Office Sports. The regular season tips off on...
by admin | Sep 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Malika Andrews will replace Rachel Nichols as the face of ESPN’s regular NBA coverage, in a move executives no doubt hope will bring a difficult era at the Disney-backed sports-media giant to an end. ESPN said Andrews, who is extending her contract, will anchor “NBA...
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