“I’m not afraid to roll up my sleeves and go to work,” said Becky Hammon, head coach of the 2022 WNBA Champion Las Vegas Aces, in her keynote conversation with Hannah Storm at last week’s espnW Women + Sports Summit.
“The hard stuff—being cut, not being picked on a team, being traded or tearing your knees up—builds resilience.”
“I don’t need someone’s stamp of approval to tell me that I’m a good coach,” said Hammon, who is so greatly enjoying coaching in the WNBA that she isn’t sure that her long-term career goal is still to be a head coach in the NBA. “In the NBA, if you’re hiring a coach, your season did not go well. Who’s ever hiring you is also in the hot seat. [Do they want to] put their ass on the line for something that’s never been done? I think it can be done, but I’m not the one hiring.
Having spent several years playing professionally in Russia as well as playing with the Russian national team at two Olympics—winning bronze in 2008—Storm asked for her thoughts on the Brittney Griner situation. “She’s been turned into a political pawn and it’s really unfortunate,” Hammon said. “We’ve got to get her back as soon as possible.”
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