re: 3 NBA Assistant Coaches to Consider Hiring

I understand the legit concern about guys not respecting her but I hope that’s outdated thought.

I’m open to whomever Griffin and Langdon think is the best person.

As long as it’s not Mark Jackson

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point is if she was Bill Hammon, she would not be a name that keeps getting thrown out. She would just be what Fred Vincent is to other fanbases. She would be unknown.

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if she was a he, she’d probably get the same looks as every other assistant under pop tho. I think this argument is kind of dumb and I don’t even want Becky. She’s getting talked about because she works under pop and has for a while. Also it’s Fred Vinson not Vincent. If anything I think her being a female has hurt her opportunities for a head coaching gig.

Except, as others have pointed out, she is the next person up in the Pop coaching tree.

A coaching tree that includes multiple head coaches: Mike Budenholzer, Brett Brown, Jim Boylen, and James Borrego, all current head coaches. Pop and his disciples literally make up 17% of the head coaches in the league(Extend that to his extended family like Quin Snyder and coaches that didn’t serve under him but played for him and call him a core influence, like Monty and Doc, and that number climbs to over 25% of the league).

It’s honestly more shocking that someone is aghast that the most recently praised Pop assistant is somehow getting head coach buzz. Ettore Medina was basically on any potential head coach list you could find until he went back to Italy. Becky Hammon’s name being circulated is pretty much par for the course when you’ve had the success of Pop.

I’m not saying I want her either.

I’m just saying it’s ridiculous to say no one would mention her for a job if she was a man.

From all accounts, the players in SA look up to her and actually love her as a coach, so if any other players can't respect her, that speaks more on the player than the coach.

I'm sure Becky Hammon is a good coach. I think Will Hardy is the real star in waiting on that coaching staff though.

The fact that Hammon is a woman, despite being unfair, presents a factor into the equation that I don’t want to input into the formula.

This hire has to be right. Call it risk aversion or antiquated thinking, but I want the surest thing possible. For me, that eliminates just about every assistant, and no offense Hammon, for this crucial Zion window, it means I don’t want to roll that particular die because it presents a nonzero amount of additional “unknown”.

Now whether or not she or deserves a HC job somewhere eventually is an entirely different argument. You would have to be in the SA building or well-connected in NBA circles to know exactly what sort of qualities and potential she brings to the table. Judging by anecdotal evidence she has a chance to be a HC someday, however I don’t think the Pels are in position to take on that experiment right now.

I really think the Pels have enough of a track record built to hire whoever they want. Woman owner, black GM, black woman VP, black woman assistant coach. It would be a shame if optics entered the equation for them at all because they're one of the teams that shouldn't have to worry about it.

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guess a white guy is out otherwise will be crucified in the media

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lol no we wouldn’t

r/nba

His ex-wife has been tweeting about it for a little while now though.