Becky Hammon, Dawn Staley Reportedly Among Blazers Head Coach Candidates
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The Portland Path Blazers are inflamed by Becky Hammon, Dawn Staley, Chauncey Billups, Mike D’Antoni and Brent Barry for their head coaching vacancy, per Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Hammon, who presently serves as an assistant for the San Antonio Spurs, is anticipated to interview within the impending weeks with every Portland and the Orlando Magic.
The Blazers parted ways with Terry Stotts after 9 years following consecutive first-round postseason losses.
Stotts went 402-318 with the Blazers, but his teams had been eliminated within the principle round five cases with two convention semifinal appearances and one convention closing showing. With Damian Lillard within the prime of his career, those exits became unacceptable.
Lillard previously acknowledged his desire for Jason Kidd to get rid of over for Stotts genuine for the Los Angeles Lakers assistant to pull his name from consideration. The guard also told Charania and Jason Expeditiously he’s keen on Billups, who is in his first season as an assistant with the Los Angeles Clippers.
Staley, 51, is a outdated six-time WNBA All-Valuable person and Basketball Hall of Famer, who has led South Carolina since 2008. The Gamecocks occupy developed one of the well-known very most life like college basketball positive aspects in some unspecified time in the future of her tenure, profitable the 2017 national championship with Closing Four appearances in 2015, 2017 and 2021. She’s 331-103 at South Carolina and 503-183 total in her college coaching career.
Hammon became the principle woman to present an NBA game in December after Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich used to be ejected in opposition to the Lakers. The 44-yr-worn Colorado Mutter product has lengthy been even handed 1 of the tip assistant coaches within the NBA but has but to get a paunchy-time head coach job.
D’Antoni, 70, has spent the season as an assistant to Steve Nash with the Brooklyn Nets after losing his head coaching job with the Houston Rockets after the 2020 season. He is previously led the Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks and Lakers, going 718-555 total with three convention closing appearances.