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No. The only vagina in a locker room should be hot reporters looking at gross black .
Sincerely,
koriwhat
https://www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...r-the-job.html
You’re an NBA team president with an opening for a head coach and a resumé with these qualifications lands on your desk.
An assistant coach in the NBA for almost a decade that was spent working for one of the greatest and most accomplished coaches in the history of the sport.
A coach who has worked with teams that have won NBA championships and teams laden with rookies and young players trying to figure out the game.
A coach who has slogged it out in every imaginable summer develop program, from working one-on-one with individual players to coaching Summer League teams to championships.
A coach who in the first go-round as a head coach led a team to a championship and was named the league’s coach of the year.
A coach who was one of the greatest players of their generation, a legitimate Hall of Famer who had individual and team success around the world.
With all that, the question isn’t “Why don’t the Raptors hire Becky Hammon to replace Nick Nurse?” but rather “Why haven’t they?”
Reports surfaced Thursday night that the Raptors had sought permission from the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces to interview Hammon for the vacancy Toronto created when it jettisoned Nurse a week ago.
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It was hardly surprising. Hammon, who spent eight years as an assistant to Gregg Popovich in San Antonio, has been linked to a handful of NBA jobs over the last four or five years, so including her in the process just seems logical. But just look at that coaching history. It’s unblemished, it’s thorough and it’s undeniable.
She can coach, as Hall of Famer Pau Gasol said in an essay for The Players Tribune in 2018: “I’ve played with some of the best players of this generation … and I’ve played under two of the sharpest minds in the history of sports, in Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich. And I’m telling you: Becky Hammon can coach. I’m not saying she can coach pretty well. I’m not saying she can coach enough to get by. I’m not saying she can coach almost at the level of the NBA’s male coaches. I’m saying: Becky Hammon can coach NBA basketball. Period.”
Someone new. Someone with a history of winning. Someone with first-class bona fides. Someone with the respect of everyone they’ve come in contact with.
Isn’t that what the Raptors want and need? Obviously.
Yes, the historic nature of hiring the first female head coach in NBA history is significant and would be a bold step by Masai Ujiri and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment. But in some ways, shouldn’t we be beyond that? Shouldn’t this be about the best candidate regardless? The initial frenzy over the 46-year-old Hammon being a woman would quickly get tiresome and her coaching chops would be all that matters, as it should in any case.
And blowback from players? Who cares?
My history with players is that they would take a coach from Mars if it helped them win. Male, female, it doesn’t matter to the true professionals, and if there’s a player who has an issue and can’t handle it? Get rid of the player. It’s not like there won’t be someone willing to take a job and direction from someone whose history stands apart from so many others.
Now, there is every chance Hammon may like where she’s at quite well enough. She’s been through the interview process before and may have decided — for now — that the NBA can wait. That continuing to do what she’s done for the WNBA is as important as, or more important than, elevating the profile of female coaches in the male version of the game.
And if that’s the case, best of luck to her and congratulations to the Aces for keeping a top-notch coach. It’s unimaginable that she’d want to always be a candidate and never get a job. At some level that’s got to feel like tokenism, and shame on team presidents who act that way.
Last edited by Racspur1; 04-28-2023 at 08:10 PM.
No. The only vagina in a locker room should be hot reporters looking at gross black .
Sincerely,
koriwhat
Not even entirely sure if legal, but I'd love to see us basically sign Hammon to a future HC deal that becomes effective whenever Pop retires.
I don’t want her to get the Toronto job only so she can be available when Pop is done.
Pretty sure she didn't appreciate getting strung along by Pop.
Anyone short of Wama in the next 2 years and she should tell Spurs to bite it.
yep hates his guts
Honestly it’s tough for a GM to hire a female coach. You get a year of pats on the back, but you can’t fire the first female coach if it isn’t working. The GM will be the one fired. It’s risky to hire a female coach on a mediocre team. That’s not saying women don’t have the ability to coach and do a good job. But the players have to let themselves be coached and it is tough to be the GM that tries it first bc their job is on the line in a way it isn’t if you hire a “safe” male coach.
It would probably have to come from Ujiri. He's pretty untouchable in Toronto. They're probably one of the few teams that could make that work even if she had to be fired at some point.
That's a crucial point, Becky can coach, and I love her, but would players let her coach them? there are arguments all the time between players and coaches, for positive outcomes sometimes, but would players have arguments with Becky? Would they talk to her frankly and directly, sometimes a bit harshly? You don't talk to a guy like you do to a woman, specially if it's a bit heated... Becky showed she can handly rooks or D league players, but could she handle stars as a head coach? Or would they let her handle them? Could she yell at a superstar and he would care? I know, superstars won't care anyway eventually woman or man, but the whole dynamics of interactions change when you're talking to a woman...
You love the idea but when you have to make the choice, that human part is what might block Becky from getting the job. But ofc, I could be totally wrong.
NBA coaches who yell at players are soon ex-NBA coaches. It's a player's league.
eh when was that, like 2019?
As a minority hire she probably felt she had to play ball. Either way, all good.
Watch Becky during the Aces locker room Championship celebration that Pop crashes.
You don't need to yell to be effective.
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