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Small step for Hammon, but a giant leap for NBA

By Associated Press (China Daily) Updated: 2014-08-07 07:15

Spurs welcome league's first full-time female assistant coach

As a 5-foot-6 point guard, WNBA veteran Becky Hammon has never had the experience of shattering a backboard with a dunk.

She is busting through the glass ceiling instead.

The San Antonio Spurs hired Hammon as an assistant coach on Tuesday, making her the first full-time, paid female assistant on an NBA coaching staff.

When Hammon retires from her 16-year WNBA career at the end of the San Antonio Stars' season, she will immediately move to the staff of the defending NBA champions, working with the revered Gregg Popovich on scouting, game-planning and the day-to-day grind of practice like no woman has ever done before.

"Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill," Hammon said.

"I'm up for challenges. I'm up for being outside the box, making tough decisions and challenges ... and I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie. Throw those all in there and this was the perfect challenge."

That makes her fit right in with the Spurs, an organization with a reputation for bold decisions.

Popovich and general manager R.C. Buford have long been at the forefront of the league's international influx and earlier this summer they hired European coaching legend Ettore Messina as an assistant.

During the 2001-02 season, Cleveland Cavaliers coach John Lucas brought Lisa Boyer into the team's practices and some games.

Boyer, now an assistant at South Carolina, was not paid by the Cavaliers and did not travel with the team, but did work with the players and coaches that season.

"I very much look forward to the addition of Becky Hammon to our staff," Popovich said in a statement released by the team.

"Having observed her working with our team this past season, I'm confident her basketball IQ, work ethic and interpersonal skills will be a great benefit to the Spurs."

Popovich and Buford were not available in person, so Hammon had the spotlight to herself.

"Congratulations to Becky on today's announcement," Boyer said in a statement.

"It's a great thing for her and for the NBA. I am still so thankful to John Lucas for giving me the opportunity to work with his NBA team during my time with the Cleveland Rockers.

"His staff and players welcomed me as a coach and it was an incredible experience for me to spend that season with them."

Last season, Hammon attended Spurs practices, film sessions and sat behind the bench at home games after suffering a torn ACL that kept her from playing.

She has been friends with Tony Parker and Tim Duncan since competing in a NBA All-Star shooting competition in 2008, a familiarity that will help as she makes her transition to coaching the two stars.

"As far as women coaching men, it's really silly.

"People ask me all the time, will there ever be a woman player in the NBA?" Hammon said.

"To be honest, no. There are differences. The guys are too big, too strong and that's just the way it is.

"But when it comes to things of the mind, things like coaching, game-planning, coming up with offensive and defensive schemes, there's no reason why a woman couldn't be in the mix and shouldn't be in the mix."

It has been a long time coming for female basketball players and coaches who have long dreamed of getting a chance in the NBA.

"I was so excited and pleased and the one thing that people have to remember is that the San Antonio Spurs don't do anything for effect," said Nancy Lieberman, a former star player who was a head coach in the NBA Development League in 2009 and now serves as the GM of the Texas Legends.

"That's not who they are. They don't do this for the record-breaking barrier. They do things out of respect.

"And the fact that coach Popovich has this much respect for Becky's basketball IQ, for how she handles herself with the guys in practice, her ability to relate to them, I'm sure he saw so much when she was working with them last fall.

"I'm sure he didn't hire her because she was a woman. I'm sure he hired her because she was the best person for the job."

 Small step for Hammon, but a giant leap for NBA

American Becky Hammon, who represented Russia at two Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012, was announced by the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday as the first full-time female assistant coach in NBA history. Mike Segar / Reuters

 Small step for Hammon, but a giant leap for NBA

Becky Hammon takes questions from the media at the San Antonio Spurs practice facility on Tuesday after being introduced as an assistant coach for the team. Bahram Mark Sobhani / Associated Press

(China Daily 08/07/2014 page24)

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