Spurs' Becky Hammon interviewing for Blazers and Magic openings

[Anerdyblackguy]

Definitely the magic is her best chance but I could have sworn Pop had her as coach in waiting.

 

[Regular_P]

You don't want anyone you care about taking the Orlando job. If she gets hired by the Magic and actually turns them around, she deserves the highest salary in the league.

 

[inndaskKy]

I'm with Kyrie. Coaches are overrated. Wouldn't mind seeing a season without coaches during games. Just team captains calling shots.

 

[Born2BKing]

Bro don't do that. Becky has definitely paid her dues by being an assistant coach. But I didn't have too much issue with the Nash hiring. Heck Jason Kidd and Larry bird were never assistants either so they are exceptions to the rule. She's coached the Spurs doing summer league and has the backing off Spurs players im sure. I've never heard a negative thing about her so it's only a matter of time before she gets a HC gig

Hmmm Jason Kidd, Larry Bird, and Steve Nash. Now what separates them from Becky Hammon. Ohh I know it rhymes with fall of lame

 

[Born2BKing]

Ok but your boss at work is probably a woman right?

Nah, it's actually a gay man.

 

[St_clair_Og]

No interviews for Ewing or
Mark Jackson huh..

 

[SadimirPutin]

Women and white men journalists will be ready to put on the cape for her at every chance

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

So her putting in the work as an assistant coming up the ranks and her actually being a former all pro baller don’t give her any coaching credibility?

A job coaching pro women's ball? Yes

 

[nyknick]

Do all y'all keep these opinions to yourselves when you step outside your basement or are you shook when you ain't anonymous? Cause I don't hear as much women-hating shyt in a year of real life as I do in a single day here.

It's The Coli

There's more vitriol in women related threads than in those Michigan University pedophile threads

 

[Ziggiy]

in a league that is like 80% black, black men can barely get jobs and this white women is interviewing for prime positions.

 

[Ziggiy]

In 2013, there were 15 black coaches. There's only 7 today(4 of them are still in the playoffs)

Until the NBA fixes the black coaching issue, White girl Becky needs to wait her turn.

This push she's getting doesn't feel organic whatsoever.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Women cannot lead men in professional sports .

I get what you're saying, but if an organization is going to be pressured into doing it, then the professional level is probably best because the molding process of young men should be nearly complete... it's still not a good look tho

 

[lightskin jermaine]

I want her to take over when Pop retires. I hope she stays one more season.

 

[concise]

More a numbers issues - there are tens of thousands of high schools in America and they don't have the entire country to recruit coaches from, so by sheer chance a woman is more likely to end up heading them.

Even back in the 1990s when I was in high school there were women coaching some of the JV teams in our league just cause no one else wanted to. It's not like it's ever an issue. Guys posturing like Neanderthals talk like there ain't female drill sergeants and corrections officers all over the country but basketball X's and O's are just too manly for a woman to understand.

I don't think it's about X's and O's at all.
Female drill sargeants and lieutenants, etc. don't just have more influence over they people they supervise, they also get paid more.

The power dynamic is very different in pro sports, especially basketball where players can have more leverage than the coaches sometimes.

 

[Wacky D]

Want to see if has the same energy as he did with Nash and others if she were to get the Blazers job

nash had no coaching experience whatsoever, and he was handed the brooklyn nets championship team.

not comparable at all.