{"id":634140,"date":"2021-08-11T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T20:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=634140"},"modified":"2021-08-11T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T20:22:15","slug":"becky-hammon-doesnt-want-an-nba-team-to-check-a-box-in-hiring-her-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/becky-hammon-doesnt-want-an-nba-team-to-check-a-box-in-hiring-her-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Becky Hammon Doesn\u2019t Want An NBA Team To \u2018Check A Box\u2019 In Hiring Her As Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbecky-hammon-doesnt-want-an-nba-team-to-check-a-box-in-hiring-her-as-head-coach%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=634140&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1230371494.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>There will be a woman coaching an NBA team in the near future. You can count on it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Becky Hammon, who will be entering her eighth season in the league as an assistant coach, is considered to be one of the top coaching candidates in all of the NBA. She also happens to be a woman.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In June, Hammon was a finalist for the Portland Trail Blazers head coaching vacancy, one that was eventually offered to former player Chauncey Billups.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And while she is appreciative of the opportunity to interview for one of the most prestigious and difficult jobs to get in the world, she has no interest in being hired simply because she\u2019s a woman.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s huge and important. It\u2019s something that can\u2019t be (checking) the box,\u201d the Spurs assistant <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-nba-portland-trail-blazers-san-antonio-spurs-ba4451e824d4f4d184918b73be640e39\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> The Associated Press. \u201cYou have to hire the best person. Half the world\u2019s population hasn\u2019t been tapped for their mind and ability and skill sets in the sports world. It\u2019s something that needs to change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPlease don\u2019t hire me to check a box. That\u2019s the worst thing you can do for me,\u201d she said. \u201cHire me because of my skill sets and coaching, who am I as a person, hire me for those.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The push for the first female head coach to be hired has gained steam in recent years due to Hammon\u2019s success, along with a handful of women assistant coaches in the league. Hammon has worked under arguably the greatest coach of our generation \u2014 Gregg Popovich \u2014 and also played at the highest level of women\u2019s basketball.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She had a 16-year career in the WNBA, making six All-Star appearances along the way. In December 2020, she became the first woman to serve as head coach of a regular season game when she filled in for Popovich after he was ejected from a regular season game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s been business as usual from the beginning. We didn\u2019t hire Becky to make history,\u201d Popovich <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/30634955\/becky-hammon-earned-head-coaching-shot-gregg-popovich-says\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> after the game. \u201cShe earned it. She is qualified. She\u2019s wonderful at what she does. I wanted her on my staff because of the work that she does. And she happens to be a woman, which basically should be irrelevant but it\u2019s not in our world, as we\u2019ve seen as it\u2019s been so difficult for women to obtain certain positions. It was business as usual for us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While Hammon does want to be a head coach one day, she understands that it\u2019s a difficult job to secure, considering there are only so many head coaching opportunities to go around.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere\u2019s 30 jobs and they are incredibly hard to get,\u201d Hammon <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-nba-portland-trail-blazers-san-antonio-spurs-ba4451e824d4f4d184918b73be640e39\">said<\/a> in a phone interview on Tuesday. \u201cWhen I saw there are 30 jobs, not all 30 are available, so I\u2019m really talking about three or four and they are really hard to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The NBA and commissioner Adam Silver have made female participation in the coaching ranks a focal point over the past few years, saying that the lack of female NBA head coaches was \u201cfrustrating\u201d in a July press conference.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit frustrating. It\u2019s an area where even just looking around the room here, you would like to see more women represented in the room here today, in all aspects of our business,\u201d Silver <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2021\/07\/06\/nba-commissioner-adam-silver-espn-rachel-nichols-maria-taylor\/7883650002\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cWe have historically made more progress on race rather than on gender. But I think that\u2019s beginning to change. It\u2019s slow. It\u2019s frustrating. But it\u2019s the work that we have to do every day to change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to sports@dailywire.com.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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